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Software engineers, placed with your team
Not just implementation support — Engineering is staff augmentation. We place our software engineers directly with your team, working your backlog, for as long as you need the extra capacity.
The difference
Engineers, not just a support ticket
When your roadmap needs more hands than you have, Engineering places our software engineers with your team directly — working alongside your engineers, in your sprint, on your priorities. Scalata integration work is one thing they can pick up; general software engineering for your product is another.
Scalata integration
Custom connectors, data pipelines and orchestrated workflows, built by an engineer who already knows the platform.
General engineering
Backend, frontend or infrastructure work on your own product — not limited to anything of ours.
Fractional or full-time
One engineer for a few weeks, or a standing team for a quarter — sized to what you actually need.
Embedded
In your repository, not in a status report
A placed engineer commits to your codebase, opens pull requests against your repositories and has them reviewed by your people — and reviews theirs. The work arrives the way your own team's work arrives, because it is in the same place.
That is the difference between augmentation and outsourcing a project. There is no hand-off meeting, no separate backlog to keep in step, and nothing to integrate at the end — the integration happened on the first morning.
What they work on
Whatever is at the top of your backlog
Every category below is worked by an engineer sitting inside your team — your repository, your standups, your definition of done — not a separate vendor backlog.
Backend services
APIs, background jobs and queues, built and maintained to hold up under real production load rather than a demo. This covers everything from a new service to keeping an existing one healthy as traffic and data volume grow.
- API design and implementation
- Background job and queue systems
- Performance under production load
- Ongoing maintenance of existing services
Front-end product
Interfaces, state management and accessibility work, plus the last-mile polish — loading states, error handling, edge cases — that separates a demo from a product your users actually trust.
- Component and state architecture
- Accessibility to a real standard
- Error and edge-case handling
- Design-to-production implementation
Data pipelines
Ingest, transformation and scheduling, plus the reconciliation logic that keeps pipeline output trustworthy when the source data is not clean — because most of it is not.
- Ingest and transformation pipelines
- Scheduling and orchestration
- Data quality and reconciliation checks
- Monitoring for silent pipeline failures
Infrastructure and DevOps
Deployments, observability and cost management, plus the CI/CD pipeline that ships everything else your team builds — so releases are routine, not an event.
- CI/CD pipeline design and upkeep
- Observability and alerting setup
- Cost monitoring and optimisation
- Deployment and rollback processes
Connectors and APIs
Talking to systems that were not designed to be talked to — legacy databases, undocumented APIs, third-party services with inconsistent behaviour — and making that integration reliable enough to depend on daily.
- Custom connector development
- Third-party API integration
- Handling undocumented or unstable systems
- Reliability and retry logic
Migrations
Moving off the legacy system everyone is afraid to touch — with a rollback plan, a cutover strategy, and a migration that does not take production down while it happens.
- Migration planning and sequencing
- Rollback and safety planning
- Zero or low-downtime cutover
- Data integrity verification post-migration
Testing and quality
Coverage where it earns its keep, not everywhere — plus the testing discipline that catches regressions before your users do, rather than after a support ticket.
- Test strategy and coverage planning
- Automated regression testing
- CI integration for test suites
- Bug triage and root-cause fixes
Workflow orchestration
The long-running, multi-step processes that hold an operation together — built to survive partial failures without losing state, and to resume rather than restart from scratch.
- Multi-step process design
- Failure recovery and state persistence
- Retry and error-handling logic
- Monitoring for stuck or failed workflows
Security engineering
Access controls, secrets management and the audit trail an enterprise client or auditor will actually ask to see — built in from the start, not retrofitted before a compliance review.
- Access control and permissions design
- Secrets and credential management
- Audit logging and traceability
- Support through security review cycles
Mobile and cross-platform
Native or cross-platform app work when the product needs to live on a phone, not just a browser tab — covering both new builds and ongoing maintenance of an existing app.
- Native iOS and Android or cross-platform builds
- Ongoing app maintenance and updates
- Platform-specific performance work
- App store release management
Sizing
One engineer, or a squad
Engagements are sized to the work rather than to a minimum contract. A specialist two days a week is a real answer to some problems; a standing squad for a quarter is the answer to others.
Rolling off is part of the arrangement, not a renegotiation. When the roadmap changes — a launch lands, a workstream closes, a hire finally starts — the engagement contracts with it.
How it works
How an engagement works
Four stages, and the second one is the whole difference from a vendor project.
Scope
We review your backlog and roadmap and confirm the skillset and headcount you need — whether that is Scalata-specific or general engineering.
Place
An engineer joins your team directly — your tools, your standups, your codebase — not a separate vendor workflow you have to manage around.
Deliver
They work your actual backlog — Scalata integration, custom connectors or general product engineering — with the same accountability as an internal hire.
Scale
Add or roll off engineers as the roadmap changes, without the lead time of a full hiring cycle.
Who this is for
Teams that need the capacity now
- Teams that need engineering capacity now, not after a hiring cycle
- Companies integrating Scalata deeply into their own product
- Teams needing general software engineering, not just Scalata work
- Organisations that want an embedded engineer, not a ticket queue
What you get
An engineer, on your team
- A software engineer placed directly with your team
- Work across the full category list above
- Fractional or full-time, sized to your need
- Scale the engagement up or down as priorities shift
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