Dedicated Engineers
A dedicated engagement means the same engineers work on your product every week, keep the context they have built up, and are reachable directly — rather than each change being scoped, quoted, and handed to whoever is free.
Fixed-scope projects suit work with a clear finish line. Products do not have one. Once an app has customers, the work is continuous: features, fixes, dependency updates, incidents, and the ongoing decisions about what to build next.
Re-scoping and re-quoting every one of those is expensive in both money and time, and it means whoever picks up the work starts from nothing each time. A monthly engagement exists to remove that overhead.
This sounds like you if…
- “I need someone who knows my codebase and is around next month too.”
- “I can't afford a full-time senior engineer yet.”
- “I want to keep shipping without learning to code properly.”
- “Every contractor I hire spends the first week getting oriented.”
- “I need someone to call when it breaks at an awkward time.”
What this covers
- Assign named engineers who stay on your product, so context accumulates instead of resetting.
- Work in your repository, your project tracker, and your chat tool. You see the commits as they happen.
- Agree priorities with you at a regular cadence, and report on what shipped against them.
- Handle the maintenance nobody plans for: dependency updates, platform deprecations, and incidents.
- Keep documentation current, so the engagement is not creating a new dependency on us.
What this is not
Stated up front so nobody buys the wrong thing.
- We do not take equity in place of payment.
- We do not act as a fractional CTO or a co-founder. If you need someone accountable for product strategy, that is a different hire and we will say so.
Worth knowing
Dedicated Engineers — questions
How is this different from hiring on Upwork?
Mostly continuity and accountability. Marketplace hiring works well for genuinely isolated tasks. It works poorly when the work is ongoing, because you re-onboard someone new each time and there is nobody holding the overall picture of how the system fits together.
What if I don't have enough work for a full month?
Then say so, and we will scope something smaller or point you elsewhere. Selling someone a retainer they do not need produces a cancellation and a bad reference, which is a poor trade for one month of revenue.
How do I know the engineers aren't just using AI to do the work?
It is the right question to ask, and the honest answer is that we do use AI tools — refusing to would be strange in 2026, and it would make us slower. The difference is what happens afterwards: code is reviewed by a person who can explain every line, tested, and owned. Ask us to walk you through any commit and explain why it is written that way. That is the check that actually distinguishes engineering from generation, and it works on any vendor, including us.
Not sure how bad it is? That's the normal starting point.
Tell us what you built and what's worrying you. If the honest answer is that you don't need us, we'll say so.