Dedicated Developers & Engineering Teams
Sometimes the bottleneck is capacity rather than direction. We provide engineers who work as part of your team on an agreed scope, with the same expectations around review, documentation and communication that your own developers follow.
Who it helps
Where dedicated developers & engineering teams tends to fit
If more than one of these sounds familiar, the solution is likely worth a conversation.
- Software teams with a defined roadmap and not enough hands to deliver it.
- Organisations without in house engineering who need ongoing development capacity.
- Product owners needing specific skills for a phase, such as mobile or data engineering.
- Teams needing cover during recruitment, parental leave or a peak delivery period.
Business problems
The problems this is usually brought in to solve
The roadmap outpaces the team
Priorities are agreed but delivery slips because there are not enough engineers to work on items in parallel.
A specialist skill is needed briefly
The work needs mobile, data or cloud experience that the current team does not have.
Work is stuck in a backlog
Review, documentation and small fixes accumulate because nobody has capacity to pick them up.
Context lives with one person
A single developer understands a critical system, which is a risk to the business.
Services and capabilities
Core capabilities and optional additions
Core capabilities are part of a typical build. Optional additions are included only when the agreed scope calls for them. What you receive in the end depends on the scope we agree together, so treat this as the menu rather than the order.
Core capabilities
- Frontend engineering across modern web frameworks and accessible interface work
- Backend engineering covering APIs, services and integrations
- Full stack developers who can take a feature from design through to deployment
- Mobile development for iOS and Android, native or cross platform
- Cloud engineering across Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Data engineering covering pipelines, modelling and reporting foundations
- AI and machine learning engineering for applied automation and analysis
- Quality practices including testing, code review and continuous integration
- Documentation as a deliverable, not an afterthought
- Working within your existing tools, boards and ceremonies
Optional additions
- Technical leadership or architecture review alongside delivery
- Onboarding support for developers you are recruiting
- Legacy rescue work on an inherited codebase
- A defined transition period when handing work back to your team
Anything listed as optional is quoted separately and only built if you decide it is worth having.
What an engagement can include
How a scoped project is put together
Not every project needs every step. This is the shape a typical engagement takes, and the scope you agree selects the parts that apply.
- 1Scoping conversation covering the work, the skills required and how your team operates
- 2Agreed engagement model: a defined piece of work, an ongoing allocation, or a mix
- 3Onboarding into your repository, tooling and communication channels
- 4Work delivered through your process, with review and progress visible to you
- 5Periodic review of priorities and fit, so the arrangement can be adjusted
- 6Documentation and handover at the end of the engagement, or an agreed transition to your team
Typical workflows
How it works day to day
These are the workflows this solution usually supports. Yours will be shaped during discovery.
Onboarding an engineer
- 1Access, repository and tooling are set up under your security rules
- 2The developer works through the codebase with a current team member
- 3A first piece of real work is delivered and reviewed to confirm the fit
- 4Responsibilities and communication cadence are confirmed in writing
Working together day to day
- 1Work is drawn from your backlog or agreed plan, with priorities set by you
- 2Changes go through pull request review with the standards your team uses
- 3Progress and blockers are visible in your existing channels and boards
- 4Documentation is updated alongside the change rather than at the end
Integration options
What it can connect to
Every system also has to allow the connection in the first place. Where a platform does not offer a supported way to integrate, we will tell you during discovery rather than work around it quietly.
Your source control and review process
Branches, pull requests and reviews run through the repository and conventions you already use.
Issue trackers and boards
Work items, estimates and status kept in your tooling so reporting stays in one place.
Communication tools
Your chat, video and email channels, with a cadence agreed at the start.
Build and deployment pipelines
Releases through your existing pipeline, or set up as part of the engagement if none exists.
Delivery and handover
What you receive, and what stays with you
- A written engagement summary stating the model, responsibilities and how priorities are set
- Code delivered into your repository as standard practice, not as a final transfer
- Documentation maintained alongside the work
- Handover or transition period agreed in advance when the engagement ends
Security and operations
Security and operational considerations
These are the controls and habits that come with the solution. The detail is agreed for your environment during scoping.
- Access granted under your policies, with multi factor authentication and least privilege
- Access removed promptly at the end of an engagement
- Confidentiality and intellectual property terms agreed in writing before work starts
- Code and data handled only in environments you have approved
Questions
Dedicated Developers & Engineering Teams questions, answered
We agree the work and the model first, then onboard into your repository and process. That can be a defined piece of work or an ongoing allocation, depending on whether you need a specific outcome or sustained capacity.
Yes. They work inside your process, use your tools, attend your ceremonies if you have them, and take part in code review the same way your own developers do.
Frontend, backend, full stack, mobile, cloud, data and applied AI engineering. We tell you honestly which of those we can staff for your timeframe rather than committing to something we cannot deliver.
We do not publish staffing guarantees or availability commitments on this website. What we can do is agree the arrangement, the notice period and how a change would be handled, in writing, before the engagement starts.
You do, under the terms agreed for the engagement. Code goes into your repository as it is produced, so there is no dependency on us holding it.
We agree a handover in advance: documentation, a transition period if useful, and any knowledge transfer your team needs. The aim is that nothing critical depends on us afterwards.
Related solutions
Often considered alongside this
- Custom Web ApplicationsCustomer portals, staff systems, dashboards and workflow applications built to match how your organisation actually operates.View solution
- Cloud & Application ModernisationAssess and improve existing applications: hosting, APIs, automation, observability, resilience and cost management.View solution
- SaaS Product DevelopmentMulti-tenant subscription software taken from product discovery through build, launch and iterative improvement.View solution
Next step
Discuss your dedicated developers & engineering teams requirements
Tell us about your current systems, the people involved and what you need the outcome to be. We will suggest a scope, flag anything that needs checking first, and explain what the work involves.