Staff augmentation
with senior engineers
Experienced engineers who join your team, work on your backlog, and stay. No rotating juniors, no body-shop pricing.
Extra senior hands,
under your direction.
Staff augmentation means our engineers join your team. They work on your backlog, in your tools and your stand-ups, and you direct what they build. It suits teams that already have engineering leadership and need more senior capacity than they can hire for locally.
What we do differently is who joins you and how long they stay. TechMaven is a studio of around 50 senior-led engineers in Kochi, India, with 98 percent annual engineer retention. The engineer who joins your team in month one is the engineer still there when the work ships. We do not rotate juniors through client seats.
Augmentation without the body shop
Senior engineers, not rotating juniors
Average engineer tenure is more than four years. The people who join your team are experienced and they stay.
You direct the work
Your backlog, your tools, your ceremonies. Our engineers work as part of your team and report to your leads.
Working hours that overlap
Kochi is GMT+5:30: four to six hours of overlap with EU teams, full overlap with APAC, and two to three hours with the US East Coast morning.
Senior rates, not cheaper rates
A senior engineer in India costs 40 to 60 percent less than the equivalent in the US, UK, or Australia. The saving buys more senior hours.
Your code, your IP
Code and IP belong to you by default in our master services agreement. We sign an NDA before discovery when a project needs one.
A studio behind every engineer
Our engineers also build and run four SaaS products of our own in production, so they bring habits from live systems.
What you can add to your team.
Frontend
React, Vue, Next.js, Svelte, Tailwind.
Mobile
Flutter, React Native, Swift, Kotlin.
Backend
Node.js, Python (FastAPI, Django), Spring Boot, .NET.
Data
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis.
Cloud
AWS, Azure, Cloudflare.
AI
OpenAI, Anthropic, LangGraph, pgvector.
How an engagement starts.
Tell us what you need
Write to us with the roles, the stack, and the timeline. Engineering leadership replies in writing within one business day.
Meet the engineers
You talk to the people who would join your team from the first call. There is no sales layer in between.
Start with a paid pilot
Most long-term clients begin with four to eight weeks, so both sides can judge the fit on real work before committing.
Questions about staff augmentation.
How is staff augmentation priced?
On time and materials. We quote after a discovery conversation about the roles and the duration, not from a per-hour rate card. A senior engineer in India costs 40 to 60 percent less than the equivalent in the US, UK, or Australia.
How fast can you start?
It depends on the stack and seniority you need. You get a written reply from engineering leadership within one business day, and it will say plainly whether the engineers you need are available and when.
Do we manage the engineers directly?
Yes. In staff augmentation the engineers work inside your team and you set their priorities. If you would rather hand over delivery of an outcome, a dedicated team or a fixed-scope project is the better fit. This comparison explains the difference.
Will the same engineers stay with us?
That is the point of how we work. Annual engineer retention is 98 percent and average engineer tenure is more than four years, so the people who learn your system are the people who keep working on it.
Who owns the code?
You do. Code and IP belong to the client by default in our master services agreement. We sign an NDA before discovery on any project that needs one, and we support escrow arrangements and on-premise repositories for sensitive engagements.
Which time zones can you work with?
Kochi is GMT+5:30. That gives four to six hours of working overlap with EU teams every day, full overlap with APAC, and two to three hours of morning overlap with the US East Coast.