Overview
Embedded Engineering puts one senior engineer inside your team — your stack, your codebase, your standup. Not a contractor who disappears at 5pm and reappears with a PR three weeks later. Someone who shows up daily, carries context, and ships across whatever layer the sprint actually needs: a migration one week, a UI polish pass the next, an infra fix the week after that.
This is the shape for teams who already have direction and need more senior hands executing it — an addition to the team, not a hand-off away from it.
When this fits
- You have a roadmap and a team, and you need one more senior engineer who can move across layers without ramp-up on every ticket.
- The work spans systems design, infra, backend, and frontend in the same sprint, and splitting it across specialists would cost more in handoffs than it saves.
- You want someone in your standup and your Slack, not a separate agency thread.
- You're covering a gap — parental leave, a departure, a hiring search that's taking longer than planned — without hiring a full-time senior you may not need in a year.
What you get
- A senior engineer, embedded in your existing team and tools — your repo, your ticket tracker, your standup.
- Weekly written notes on what shipped and what's next. No surprises at the end of the month.
- Someone who works across the stack — systems design, infra, DevOps, backend, frontend — as the work demands, not boxed into one lane.
- A relationship you can scale up, scale down, or end with notice, not a fixed-term contract you're locked into.
What we won't do
- Bill for warm bodies. The engineer on your team is senior or we don't take the engagement.
- Disappear into a ticket queue. You get someone who talks to your team, not just closes issues.
- Run more than a couple of these at once. Embedded work means our attention, not a bench.
- Pad hours. The weekly note says what actually happened.
How we work
- Scope the gap. A short call to understand what's not getting covered and why — usually 30–45 minutes.
- Match the engineer. We assign based on what the work actually needs, not who's free.
- Embed. Access to your repo, your tools, your standups, from day one — inside your process, not adjacent to it.
- Ship weekly. Regular commits, a written weekly note, direct access to ask questions or redirect the work.
- Review and adjust. Scope flexes as your team's needs shift, month to month.
Weekly retainer, quoted for your team and the work in front of us — fixed quote, let's talk.