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Team Augmentation

Team Augmentation with Senior Engineers

Add senior developers to your team without a months-long hiring cycle. They join your sprints, your stack and your tools - you keep architectural control.

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How It Works

How Team Augmentation Works

Our engineers, your process. They work as part of your team, not as a separate vendor you have to manage.

1

Tell Us the Gap

The skills, seniority and capacity your roadmap needs - and for how long.

2

Meet Your Engineers

The engineers you meet are the engineers who do the work - no swap after signature.

3

They Join Your Team

Your chat, your repositories, your issue tracker and your ceremonies, from day one.

4

Scale With Your Roadmap

Add engineers as the work grows, or step back when your own hires land.

Team Augmentation

  • You direct the work and set priorities
  • You keep architectural control
  • Best for scaling fast or filling a skills gap

Software Outsourcing

  • We own scope, architecture, delivery and QA
  • You receive shipped software
  • Best for a defined product with a real deadline
Transparent Pricing

Team Augmentation Rates for Senior Engineers

Every role sits inside the Eastern Europe range for the same role - 6 of 8 in the lower half of it. Hourly rates in US dollars, excluding VAT.

Mid-Level Developer

$52 /hour

Eastern Europe, intermediate developer: $45-$66

Senior Developer

$64 /hour

Eastern Europe, senior developer: $55-$86

Lead Developer

$74 /hour

Eastern Europe, lead developer: $65-$93

Solutions Architect

$80 /hour

Eastern Europe, architect: $50-$105

DevOps Engineer

$58 /hour

Eastern Europe, DevOps: $45-$87

QA Engineer

$54 /hour

Eastern Europe, senior QA engineer, automated: $50-$76

Project Manager

$62 /hour

Eastern Europe, project manager: $50-$87

AI / ML Engineer

$88 /hour

Eastern Europe, data scientist: $75-$96

$66.50 an hour on average

Averaged across our 8 roles. Every rate sits inside the $40-90 an hour range Accelerance identifies as the sweet spot for quality outsourcing, and below the $83-112 an hour it puts on the total cost of in-house engineering in the US.

Why there is no junior rate

There is no junior-heavy bench behind this card. Every engineer here has shipped real products, not just closed tickets - we do not compete at the bottom of the market, which Accelerance calls the danger zone for delivery quality.

Sources: role ranges from the Eastern Europe column of the Accelerance 2025 Global Software Outsourcing Rates & Trends Guide (the guide has no AI/ML engineer role, so data scientist is shown); sweet spot, danger zone and US in-house cost from the Accelerance 2023 guide.

Skills

Skills You Can Add to Your Team

We build and run our own products, so the engineers you add bring production experience, not just theory.

Python, Django and FastAPI

Back ends, APIs, SaaS platforms, upgrades and legacy modernisation.

AI and Machine Learning

LLM integration, AI agents, semantic search and computer vision.

Solutions Architecture

System design, technical due diligence and scaling plans from engineers who have run large programmes.

DevOps and Cloud

Docker, CI/CD, Linux, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

Security

Application security, audits and GDPR compliance, from the team behind our own security products.

QA and Test Automation

Test strategy, automated test suites and release confidence.

Track Record

Proven on High-Stakes Work

Sector, scale and engagement model for each - the work speaks for itself.

Since Carpathica

Consumer e-commerce Nearshore team augmentation

A client that followed us home

After the Python 3 migration, the same global consumer brand kept working with us once we had moved back to Romania - the same engineering standards, delivered nearshore.

Banking Nearshore delivery

Security work for a global bank

A London digital agency we had worked with on site brought us in to help one of its global banking clients on security - delivered nearshore from Romania.

SaaS Own products

Products we build and run

Panthero and Keelr (continuous attack-and-defence security), Tissia (AI customer service) and Carpathica Academy (a complete learning platform) - designed, built and operated by our own team.

Before Carpathica - our founder, in London and Cambridge

Consumer e-commerce Team augmentation

960,000 lines, Python 2 to Python 3

Embedded for two years in the engineering organisation of a global consumer brand, migrating a 960,000-line e-commerce codebase from Python 2 to Python 3 across a technical team of hundreds - delivered two weeks early.

Telecoms Technical architecture

A £120M+ mobile network account

As Technical Architect at a leading London advertising agency, full technical responsibility for a major UK mobile network's account, worth over £120M - including the client's first major cloud migration.

Academic publishing On-site delivery

A digital department built from zero

Brought in on site to build a global academic publisher's digital department from zero, after £8M had been spent without result - a plan executed across a 3,000-person, 50-office organisation.

FAQ

Team Augmentation: Common Questions

Team augmentation - also called IT staff augmentation - adds external engineers directly to your own team. They work in your sprints, your codebase and your tools, report to your leads and follow your process, while you keep full control of architecture and priorities.

With team augmentation you direct the work and we supply senior engineers. With outsourcing we own the outcome - scope, architecture, delivery and QA - and you receive shipped software. Many clients start with one and move to the other as their needs change.

A senior developer costs $64 an hour, a lead developer $74 and an AI or machine learning engineer $88. Every role on our card sits inside the Eastern Europe range for the same role published by Accelerance.

Yes. The engineers you meet are the engineers who do the work, from start to finish - no bait-and-switch staffing after signature.

Yes. They join your chat, your issue tracker, your repositories and your ceremonies. From Romania we share a full working day with European teams and a morning overlap with the US East Coast.

Yes - it is one of the most common reasons clients augment their team. We build and run our own AI and security products, so the engineers you add bring production experience, not just theory.

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