BairesDev
  1. Software Development Services
  2. Staff Augmentation Services

Staff augmentation services

Onboard top 1% tech talent. Work as one integrated team.

BairesDev adds nearshore software engineers and tech professionals to your internal teams. Unblock stalled or slow-moving roadmaps. Scale software development and delivery across your org. We typically stand up teams in 2 weeks.

AI-augmented engineers

Teams ready in 2 weeks

Why Staff Augmentation

Close capacity gaps.
Without changing how you work.
When the pressure to deliver is coming from every direction, quickly add the capacity your org needs without the cost and commitment of hiring internally or the quality risks that come with offshore alternatives.

You set priorities and KPIs for your dedicated team just like you would for an internal squad. Our PM translates those into sprint plans, coordinates daily execution for key project deliverables, and keeps delivery mapped to your org's goals.

When priorities shift, the team adjusts with them. You maintain full visibility into progress through your project management tools and regular syncs with the team lead.

Finding a senior engineer with exactly the right stack used to mean a 3-month hiring process. With BairesDev, you can source a fully-vetted engineer with the exact skill set you need in days.

Skip job postings, screening calls, and technical panels. We handle the vetting, so you get qualified talent ready to contribute from their first day on your team.

Our engineers don't just bring technical skills — they bring domain knowledge from working across finance, healthcare, retail, logistics, and more. They understand compliance requirements and industry-specific pitfalls from real experience.

That context shortens ramp-up time and reduces the risk of costly oversights, making your team more effective from the start.

When a major product launch or digital transformation requires more bandwidth, we can staff up quickly. You get teams that are cohesive, technically aligned, and ready to absorb your existing codebase and standards.

Add two engineers or twenty — our bench depth means we can match your growth trajectory without forcing tradeoffs on quality or seniority.

When a vendor is missing deadlines or delivering substandard work, the cost of staying put often exceeds the cost of switching. We make that transition practical.

Our onboarding playbook is built for fast knowledge transfer. Your delivery manager ensures nothing falls through the cracks, so you recapture momentum without disruption.

Our engineers work in your time zone, use your tools, and communicate clearly in English. They're not a black-box outsourced team — they're embedded members of your squad.

They attend standups, contribute to code reviews, and participate in sprint planning just like your in-house staff, making the remote collaboration feel seamless.

How We Work

Bring in our engineers
to keep delivery moving.
Fill specialized skill gaps. Reinforce overstretched teams. Or scale up to tackle a major modernization initiative. With staff augmentation, our engineers work alongside yours as one extended team.
Staff Augmentation

Staff Augmentation

Top 1% Tech Talent

Bring in vetted senior engineers with the exact skills your team needs without the delay or overhead of hiring in-house.

Directly Embedded

Our engineers work your hours, use your tools, and follow your workflows. They operate just like your internal team.

Capacity with Control

Your leads set priorities and manage delivery. We add the capacity and technical depth to accelerate shipping.

Staff Augmentation
Plug in specialists who
already know your stack.
We have experts experienced in everything from widely used frameworks like React to niche technologies like SAP ABAP. And if your project requires something especially niche, our talent pipeline gives us the reach to find the right fit.
Your best engineers don't need hand-holding. Neither do ours.
Our senior engineers operate the way your best team members do. They take ownership over outcomes, write clean code, and proactively work to improve solutions.
Diego L.

Diego L.

brazil
Sr. Full-Stack Engineer
14 years of experience
Next.js
Supabase
TypeScript
Previous client:Previous client
Valentina S.

Valentina S.

argentina
Sr. Devops Engineer
10 years of experience
Kubernetes
Terraform
ArgoCD
Previous client:Previous client
4000+Senior Software Engineers
8-10+Years of Experience
Top 1%Vetted Expertise
Carlos M.

Carlos M.

mexico
Sr. Mobile Developer
9 years of experience
Flutter
SwiftUI
Fastlane
Previous client:Previous client
Miguel O.

Miguel O.

peru
Sr. QA Engineer
13 years of experience
Playwright
K6
Applitools
Previous client:Previous client
Gabriela K.

Gabriela K.

chile
Sr. Data Analyst
11 years of experience
Snowflake
dbt
Node.js
Previous client:Previous client
Gustavo L.

Gustavo L.

colombia
Sr. Product Designer
13 years of experience
Figma
Maze
Hotjar
Previous client:Previous client
Lorenzo M.

Lorenzo M.

chile
Sr. Front-End Developer
15 years of experience
HTML5
JavaScript
React
Previous client:Previous client
Carlos K.

Carlos K.

brazil
Sr. Back-End Developer
13 years of experience
Node.js
Django
SQL
Previous client:Previous client
Mariana C.

Mariana C.

argentina
Sr. Product Manager
11 years of experience
Jira
Google Analytics
Confluence
Previous client:Previous client

Our vetting process

How we put top performers
on every team:
Every year, over 2.5 million people apply to BairesDev. We hire fewer than 1%. Our multi-month vetting process is designed to find engineers who perform at the highest level.
1. Technical Assessments

Every candidate completes 8-12 online assessments aligned to their specific technical skills, plus mandatory English and critical thinking exams.

1. Technical Assessments
2. Interview for Communication & Collaboration

We assess each candidate for situational problem-solving, personality traits, communication skills, commitment, and cultural fit both for BairesDev and for our clients.

2. Interview for Communication & Collaboration
3. Technical Interviews by Senior SMEs

Senior subject-matter experts (not recruiters) conduct exhaustive technical interviews that include language-specific questions, project contribution assessments, and real-time problem-solving.

3. Technical Interviews by Senior SMEs
4. AI-Powered Team Recommendation

Our AI-powered recommendation engine analyzes industry expertise, tech stack, infrastructure, and project scope to deliver qualified team recommendations in seconds — with human review to verify every selection.

4. AI-Powered Team Recommendation

Case studies

500+ teams supported.
130+ industries served.
From VC-backed startups to Fortune 500 companies, we've scaled engineering teams at every level of complexity.
Pinterest case study
Revamped Pinterest's Ad Manager: Scaled the team from 5 to 233 Devs
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Google case study
Performed comprehensive QA across 2 billion+ lines of code for YouTube and Android TV.
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NextRoll case study
Scaled a predictive marketing platform to deliver 60% more new customers.
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Urban Outfitters case study
Optimized website performance to drive a 38% increase in net profits.
Read Case Study
Rolls Royce case study
Delivered a nuclear power monitoring app in just 5 months.
Read Case Study
Their engineers perform at very high standards. We've had a strong relationship for almost 7 years."
Patrick Mee

Patrick Mee

EVP Of Engineering - NextRoll

Proven track record.
Award-winning approach.

Since 2009, we've helped over 1400 companies accelerate their roadmaps while reducing delivery risk.

De-risk Delivery with a Proven Partner
Inc 5000s America's Fastest-growing Companies for 5 years in a row

Inc 5000s America's Fastest-growing Companies for 5 years in a row

Recognized for Enterprise Excellence and IT Innovation 2025

Recognized for Enterprise Excellence and IT Innovation 2025

Top Software Developers 2026

Top Software Developers 2026

Entrepreneur of the Year. Bay Area Winner - Nacho De Marco, founder and CEO 2024

Entrepreneur of the Year. Bay Area Winner - Nacho De Marco, founder and CEO 2024

Inc 5000s America's Fastest-growing Companies for 5 years in a row

Inc 5000s America's Fastest-growing Companies for 5 years in a row

Recognized for Enterprise Excellence and IT Innovation 2025

Recognized for Enterprise Excellence and IT Innovation 2025

Top Software Developers 2026

Top Software Developers 2026

Entrepreneur of the Year. Bay Area Winner - Nacho De Marco, founder and CEO 2024

Entrepreneur of the Year. Bay Area Winner - Nacho De Marco, founder and CEO 2024

Inc 5000s America's Fastest-growing Companies for 5 years in a row

Inc 5000s America's Fastest-growing Companies for 5 years in a row

Recognized for Enterprise Excellence and IT Innovation 2025

Recognized for Enterprise Excellence and IT Innovation 2025

Top Software Developers 2026

Top Software Developers 2026

Entrepreneur of the Year. Bay Area Winner - Nacho De Marco, founder and CEO 2024

Entrepreneur of the Year. Bay Area Winner - Nacho De Marco, founder and CEO 2024

96%

First-try Placement
Success Rate

99%

Second-try Placement
Success Rate

Harvard Business School

Since 2009, our hiring model has been used to evaluate over 10 million applicants and build high-performing teams for 1,400+ companies across industries. This track record led Harvard Business School to feature BairesDev as a case study.

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Your Nearshore Advantage

Scale your team without
the typical tradeoffs.
Offshore costs quality. Local hires strain budgets. Our model eliminates this trade-off. Get senior engineers who perform at the level of your best internal engineers, in your timezone, at nearshore rates.

Real-TimeCollaboration

Our engineers work your hours and overlap fully with your team's schedule. They join your standups, pair-program with your developers, and resolve blockers in real time — not on a 12-hour delay. Most are based across Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and other LATAM countries, so they operate at the same pace and communication cadence as your in-house team.

US-CaliberTech Talent

Our engineers perform at the level you'd expect from a strong US hire. They're experienced senior professionals who take ownership of their work, make strong technical decisions, and and solve problems proactively. Everyone on our team has cleared a rigorous multi-month vetting process. So you can trust you'll get top performers regardless of where they're located.

30-50%Cost Savings

Our engineers typically run 30-50% less than the fully loaded cost of a local hire. There are no recruiting fees, no benefits overhead, and no insurance costs on your side. And compared to offshore, you typically need fewer of our engineers to get the same output. That's because they write better code faster and reduce the need for rework. So the total cost of delivery is lower from both directions.

Nearshore vs. other outsourcing options

Our model wins on quality,
cost, and collaboration:
Nearshoring withBairesDevTypical Offshore
Vendor
Onshore
in US
Full overlap with U.S.10-12 hours apartFull overlap with US
Real-time collaborationOvernight handoffsReal-time collaboration
Senior-level equal to US hiresJunior-heavySenior-level
Verified Top 1%VariesVaries
High English proficiencyFrequent barriersNative English
High alignment with USLow alignment with USHigh alignment with US
Typically 30–50% below US ratesCheap rates with hidden costsHighest cost
BairesDev LATAM software development centers
  • 500+

    Active Clients

  • 4.9/5

    Clutch Rating

  • 96%

    Client Retention

Your staff augmentation company

BairesDev is a US-based company powered by LATAM dev teams.

Since 2009, we've built software for companies of all sizes, from high-growth startups to Fortune 500s. We're headquartered in California. Our 4,000+ software engineers span over 20 countries across Latin America.

If you need a partner who can handle everything from a single product build to a complex multi-platform initiative, we have the engineering depth and experience to deliver it.

Client testimonials

Get results you
can stand behind.

Our work holds up in reviews, in production, and in front of the board.

Their staffing process is way better than any other outsourcing company in the region, so we can always rely on them.

Ropu Rovagnati

SVP Managing Director LATAM

R/GA

BairesDev provided quality development resources to augment a high-performing and fast-moving development team. They provide ongoing support for their placements to ensure success and growth within their roles.

Brian Hamilton

Founder and CEO

Azlo

Their developers often suggested better strategies for code structure and testing patterns.

Josh Pollard

Engineering Manager

Josh Pollard

3+ years

Avg. Engagement Length

9/10

Average NPS

Our Performance model

Expect performance.
We've built our model around it.

We don't ask you to hope your next engineer works out. Our vetting process is designed to make sure they do.

Plus, we actively monitor performance throughout every engagement to make sure it stays that way.

Near-Perfect Placement
Success Rate

96% of our placements are the right fit on the first try. 99% on the second. That means the engineer you onboard is almost certainly a great fit for your team.

Ongoing Performance
Management

We don't place engineers and walk away. Our delivery managers actively track performance, resolve issues, and make sure our engineers consistently meet your quantity and quality standards on an ongoing basis.

Award-Winning
Retention

We've invested so heavily in engineer retention that we've won awards for it. Our engineers average 2+ years on engagements, with churn well below industry norms. And with 4,000+ engineers on staff, we can scale or backfill quickly. So projects never stall.

Kick off projects in 2-4 weeks.
  1. Discuss solutions and decide team structure.

    Tell us about your business, challenges, and project needs.

  2. Onboard your team and get to work.

    We'll align the project specifications, then select and onboard the right team.

  3. We track performance on an ongoing basis.

    We make sure our engineers meet your quantity and quality of work standards at all times.

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FAQ

What tech leaders ask about our staff augmentation services:

  • What is staff augmentation and how does it work?

    Staff augmentation allows you to add external talent to your existing team without the overhead of direct hires. You define the role and requirements. We give you vetted talent (software developers, UX/UI designers, DevOps specialists, project managers, and more) who embed directly into your team, and you manage them like any other team member.

  • What's the difference between staff augmentation, dedicated teams, and software outsourcing?

    Staff augmentation (or team augmentation) adds individual engineers to your team. You manage them directly. Dedicated teams are self-managing pods embedded in your org. They coordinate with your leads on business objectives and drive delivery more or less independently with their own tech PM. Software outsourcing means we own the project end-to-end, from planning through deployment.

  • What technologies and programming languages do your engineers work with?

    We cover 100+ technologies, including niche and legacy systems. Commonly requested stacks include React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, .NET/C#, AWS, Azure, PHP, Go, and Ruby on Rails. Through our tailored staff augmentation services, we match engineers to your exact stack and project requirements. For especially rare or emerging technologies, our pipeline of 2.5M annual applicants (nearly 7K daily) gives us the reach to find the right person.

  • Do your engineers use AI coding tools?

    Yes. Our engineers use the leading AI coding tools as part of their daily development workflow. This includes GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and others. Whatever tool your team has standardized on, we can place engineers who are already experienced in it.

  • How do you vet and select engineers for my team?

    Our hiring process is designed to find highly skilled professionals. We screen every candidate through dozens of technical assessments, soft skills interviews, and a live technical interviews conducted by senior engineers. Less than 1% of applicants make it through. Once we shortlist candidates, you have the option to interview them directly and choose who joins your team.

  • How fast can you onboard engineers to my team?

    We can rapidly onboard engineers to fit even the tightest project timelines. It typically takes about 2 weeks, sometimes up to 4 for larger teams. We provide engineers who have the technical, industry, and contextual experience required for your project.

    From there, they integrate into your codebase, workflows, and sprint cadence. For bigger engagements, we ramp incrementally, adding engineers in stages. Compare that to traditional hiring, where recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding a single engineer typically takes 3-6 months.

  • How much does staff augmentation cost?

    It depends on your stack, team size, and project scope. Our senior engineers deliver meaningful savings compared to equivalent US hires (approx. 30-50% lower costs), while saving you overhead associated with recruiting, benefit packages, extra office space, and taxes. We're happy to discuss pricing in more detail. Schedule a call to learn more.

  • Do you have experience in my industry?

    Likely. We've delivered over 1,480 projects across 130+ industries, including hundreds of projects in heavily regulated sectors. Our engineers are experienced professionals who bring domain knowledge, which means faster ramp-up and more relevant problem-solving. We have compliance experience with HIPAA, SOC 2, as well as financial and other strict regulations.

  • Do engineers integrate with our existing tools and workflows?

    Yes, they work in whatever your development team already uses. Be it Jira, Linear, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, or Teams. A big benefit of our embedded engineers is that they operate inside your existing toolchain as soon as they start. This includes all project management software, repos, communication channels, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. There are no new tools to adopt and no separate reporting layer for external team members.

  • How does the onboarding process work?

    Onboarding begins with a structured integration plan that includes clear role definitions, workflow alignment, and team expectations. Your new engineer gets access to your documentation, tools, and communication channels from day one so there's no downtime waiting on setup.

    They report directly to your managers and follow your coding standards and processes — just like any internal hire. Because our engineers average 10+ years of experience, they ramp up quickly and typically start contributing productive work within their first week.

See why the biggest names in tech choose our software development services.

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