Backend Engineer
Senior · APIs and data- Time zone
- IST, 4+ hours overlap with UK and EU
- Availability
- Within 48 hrs
- Best for
- A migration or API backlog your core team cannot absorb
Staff Augmentation · Available This Week
Staff AugmentationVetted Engineers · Your Workflow, Your Tools
BackendFrontendMobileQA and DevOpsDirected by your own lead
Add vetted Miracuves engineers directly into your existing team - same standups, same repository, same sprint board. Scale capacity up for a release crunch or down when velocity stabilizes, without recruiting overhead. Each engineer has worked a ticket in an unfamiliar codebase, had real pull requests reviewed and finished a paid trial before you see the profile - then takes direction from your engineering lead, with a Friday demo and no account manager in between.
- Interview Before Start
- NDA Day One
- 40hr/Week Dedicated
- 2-Week Replacement
$1,499/moPart-time, 20 hrs/week
$2,499/moFull-time, 40 hrs/week
<48 HrsAgreement to start
2 WeeksReplacement at no cost
Backend, mobile and QA engineers available this week
- 2 WeeksNotice to release a seat
- 4+ HrsDaily overlap, agreed in writing
- 2-WeekReplacement if the fit is wrong
- <48 HrsFrom agreement to first login
- 20 or 40Hours a week per seat
Interview Before Start
You meet and approve every match
40hr/Week Dedicated
Only your product, full focus
NDA Day One
Signed before details shared
Direct Access
No account manager relay
Weekly Demos
Working output every Friday
Flexible Exit
2 weeks notice, no lock-in
More than 6,000+ Companies Trust us Worldwide
In short
Miracuves staff augmentation adds vetted engineers - backend, frontend, mobile, QA or DevOps - to the team you already run. Your lead assigns their tickets and reviews their code; Miracuves handles vetting, employment and replacement. Part-time is $1,499 a month and full-time $2,499 a month per engineer, month-to-month with two weeks' notice per seat. Most start within 48 hours, and every line of code is yours.
What This Engagement Delivers
What staff augmentation looks like inside your team
Staff augmentation means Miracuves engineers join your existing engineering org as additional capacity - not a parallel team with separate processes. They take tickets from your backlog, join your standups, and ship through your CI/CD. Augmented practitioners take direction from you, work your tickets and follow your review standards, rather than arriving with a delivery process of their own.
Unlike a freelance marketplace, you do not start from a pile of strangers: every engineer has already cleared six vetting stages, ending in a paid trial sprint, and you still interview each one before they start. This is the wrong model when the bottleneck is deciding what to build rather than building it, because adding hands to an unclear roadmap makes the confusion faster. If that is your situation, we tell you before any contract and suggest a build Miracuves owns end to end instead - a software development engagement, or a ready-made base from the clone solutions catalog. The related section at the foot of this page sets the other engagement models beside those full builds.
- Joins your existing sprint board and takes assigned tickets
- Uses your IDE, repo, and communication tools from day one
- Reports to your engineering manager: not a Miracuves account lead
- Scales up for release crunches, scales down when stable
- Delivers working output every Friday: demo, not status email
9,000+Projects delivered
3,900+Apps published by Miracuves
90+Ready-made solutions to start from
6 daysReady-made clone delivery
2-8wMiracuves custom build timelines
100%Source code ownership
Backend & frontendAPIs, services, web front ends
MobileiOS, Android, cross-platform
QA & DevOpsTest suites, pipelines, cloud
Augmentation multiplies whatever your team already does. If priorities are clear it multiplies output; if they are not, it multiplies rework and everyone gets busier.
Sample Profiles
The range of engineers you can add to your team
Staff augmentation is not one role. These three samples show the spread - server-side, mobile and test automation - and the detail each shortlisted profile carries, so you can match a person to the gap in your team.
Mobile Engineer
Mid-senior · iOS and Android- Time zone
- IST, 4+ hours overlap with US East Coast
- Availability
- Part or full time
- Best for
- A release that needs a second mobile engineer
QA Automation Engineer
Mid-senior · web and API testing- Time zone
- IST, 4+ hours overlap with EU or US
- Availability
- Full time
- Best for
- Regression coverage before a launch date
These are sample profiles showing the format of a shortlist, not specific people. Names, CVs and references are shared under NDA once you send the brief.
Honest Comparison
Miracuves vs outsourcing agencies and in-house hiring - an honest comparison
There are three usual ways to get more engineering done: hand a project to an outsourcing agency, hire permanent staff, or add engineers to the team you already run. Staff augmentation is the third. This table sets them side by side on who directs the work, how fast capacity arrives, how fast it can leave and who owns what gets built - the questions that decide the model, before anyone compares day rates.
MetricFive things that decide cost, speed and reach
Miracuves
Staff augmentation via Miracuves
Engineers inside your team, published rate
Outsourcing agency
A project handed to their team
In-house hire
Permanent employees you recruit
01Who directs the work
Your engineering leadTickets, priorities and code review stay with you
The agency's project managerYou agree the scope; they decide how their team works
Your engineering leadFull control, once the hire has started
02Time to add capacity
Under 48 hours per engineerFrom signed agreement to first login; a pod within 72 hours
Weeks of scopingA statement of work comes before any code
A full recruiting cycleSourcing, interviews, offer and the candidate's notice period
03Pricing
Published monthly rates$1,499/mo part-time, $2,499/mo full-time, month-to-month
Quote per projectChanges of scope are quoted again
Salary plus overheadsBenefits, equipment, recruiting fees and management time
04Code and IP
100% yoursWork happens in your repositories; IP assigned from day one
Per contractCheck where the code lives and when it transfers
YoursUnder the employment contract
05Scaling down
2 weeks' notice per engineerRelease capacity after a launch, with no severance
Per statement of workEarly exit terms vary by contract
Slow and costly to reverseNotice periods, severance and a hit to the rest of the team
Hire through Miracuves if…
You already run an engineering team with a clear backlog and need more hands on it - a backend engineer for a migration, a mobile engineer for a release, a QA engineer before launch - directed by your own lead and released when the work is done. Want a squad that is led as a unit instead? Compare dedicated teams. For a bounded piece of work with a fixed end date, contract developers may fit better.
Choose something else if…
Nobody on your side has time to direct extra engineers, or the product is not defined yet - augmentation adds capacity, not direction. Hand over the whole build instead: see our 90+ solutions and vertical pages.
Staff augmentation guide
Engineering staff augmentation: how the model works
What buyers ask before adding outside engineers to their own team - what the model is, how it differs from the other ways to buy engineering time, and what happens on the first and the last day.
What is engineering staff augmentation, and when does it beat hiring or outsourcing?
Engineering staff augmentation means adding engineers from an outside company to your own team for as long as you need them. They join your stand-ups, work your backlog and ship through your pipeline. The supplier recruits, vets, employs and if necessary replaces them; you direct the work.
It beats permanent hiring when the need is real but may not last - a migration, a launch, a backlog after a funding round - or when a recruiting cycle would miss the date. It beats outsourcing when you want the product knowledge and the technical decisions to stay in-house. It loses to both when nobody on your side has time to lead the extra people.
Staff augmentation, a dedicated team or contract developers: which fits?
The three differ in who leads and what you are buying. Augmentation buys seats in your team: individual engineers, directed by your own lead, added or released one at a time. A dedicated team is a cross-functional squad - engineers, QA and a delivery lead - that works your roadmap as a unit, so you manage one lead rather than each person. Contract developers work to terms fixed up front: a defined deliverable or release window, with the end date and the meaning of finished written down before they start.
- Augmentation: a working team, a clear backlog, and a need for more hands on it
- Dedicated team: you want output on a workstream without directing each engineer yourself
- Contract developers: the job is bounded and a finish date matters more than continuity
Who manages augmented engineers day to day?
You do. Your engineering manager or tech lead assigns tickets, sets priorities, reviews pull requests and decides whether the work is good enough, exactly as for an employee. Augmented engineers attend your ceremonies and follow your definition of done; they do not arrive with a process of their own.
Miracuves handles what sits around the person: recruiting and vetting, employment and payroll, leave cover, conduct and replacement if the fit is wrong. You have a named Miracuves contact for those questions, but no account manager relays messages between you and the engineer. If nobody on your side has time to lead, a dedicated team with its own delivery lead is the better model.
How do ramp-up and ramp-down work?
Ramp-up: once the engagement letter is signed, a single engineer usually has logins and first tickets within 48 hours, and a pod within 72 hours. Most are merging reviewed work by the end of the first week. If ramp-up is slower than agreed, the 2-week replacement term applies at no cost.
Ramp-down is per seat. Each engineer runs month to month and can be released with two weeks' notice, so a team that grew from two to five for a launch can step back to two afterwards without a penalty. Use the notice fortnight for handover: open branches merged or documented, runbooks written, access removed on the last day.
Who owns the code, and what access do augmented engineers get?
You own everything they produce. A bilateral NDA and an IP assignment are signed before you share the roadmap, and all work happens in your repositories, so there is no separate vendor codebase to transfer later.
Access is yours to grant and to remove. Give each engineer only what the role needs - repository write access, the tracker, chat, staging - and keep production credentials, customer data and billing behind your own approval. Use your single sign-on and named accounts rather than shared logins, so every commit can be traced to a person. When a seat ends you revoke the access; nothing depends on Miracuves holding a key.
Can you augment specialist engineering such as embedded or firmware?
Yes, as long as the seat is defined clearly. Specialist augmentation works the same way: the engineer joins your team and your lead directs the work. For embedded engineering staff augmentation - firmware in C or C++, RTOS work, board bring-up and hardware debugging - the embedded systems developers page covers the vetting and the rate for that role in detail.
Other specialist seats have their own pages, such as QA engineers. Mixing roles is normal: a hardware company might add one firmware developer and one QA engineer on the same engagement letter, each seat with its own notice period.
Vetting Pipeline
Six stages between an applicant and a seat in your team
Augmented engineers have to be productive in code and processes they did not choose, so the stages test exactly that: working in an unfamiliar codebase, taking direction and reporting in writing.
- Stage 01
Role screening
A 45-minute call on the teams they have joined from outside, how they got up to speed and how they handled priorities set by someone else.
- Stage 02
Codebase exercise
A ticket in an unfamiliar repository in their own stack - backend, frontend, mobile or QA - with a pull request written for a reviewer who does not know them.
- Stage 03
Work review
A senior Miracuves engineer reads code and pull requests they actually shipped, including the review comments and how they answered them.
- Stage 04
Reference check
A former team lead or client where one applies, asked how the engineer took direction and how they handed over when they left.
- Stage 05
Communication
A written end-of-day update, an estimate on a vague ticket and a conversation about pushing back on a deadline.
- Stage 06
Paid trial sprint
A short paid trial on a real anonymized brief, run like a sprint in a client team, before the profile is shown to you.
Team Structures
Four ways to use staff augmentation
Match capacity to your roadmap - not a fixed headcount contract. Whether you add one person or a pod, the engagement letter lists each engineer by role, their overlap hours, the person they escalate to on your side and the replacement terms, and every seat can be added or released on its own.
Dev
Solo
Single Engineer
One senior engineer filling a specific skill gap in your team.
- Best for: One missing specialty in a working team
DevQA
Pair
Engineer + QA
Development plus test coverage for a release push.
- Best for: A quality push before launch
BEFEQA
Pod
2-3 Engineers
A burst pod for a defined sprint window or feature epic.
- Best for: A release crunch or migration window
Dev++
Rolling
Flexible Bench
On-call capacity that scales up and down monthly.
- Best for: A roadmap that changes month to month
Vetting Standards
How Miracuves vets every augmented engineer
An augmented engineer has to be useful inside a codebase they did not write, so before any profile reaches a client the engineer is checked on these seven points.
- Stack proficiency - live coding in your primary frameworkStack
- Codebase ramp speed - reads unfamiliar code quicklyRamp
- PR quality - reviewable commits, not throwaway patchesQuality
- Agile participation - standups, estimation, retrosAgile
- Communication - async updates and live collaborationComms
- Autonomy - unblocks without constant directionJudgment
- Paid trial sprint - final filter before client matchTrial
What's Included
Every engagement includes this - no add-on tiers
Six terms come with every augmented seat, part-time or full-time, and none of them is billed as an extra.
Direct Team Integration
Added to your repositories, stand-ups, sprint board and chat on the first day, so the extra capacity sits inside your team rather than in a vendor channel you have to chase.
Weekly Demo & Sprint Review
Each Friday the augmented engineer demos merged work to your team lead - live, in your environment, not a status email - so you judge the week on code that actually shipped.
NDA + IP Assignment Day One
Both sides sign the NDA and the IP assignment before you describe your roadmap. Every commit, script and document the engineer produces belongs to your company.
Async-First Communication
A short written update in your chat tool at the end of each working day - done, in review, blocked - plus live pairing or calls inside the overlap window agreed in writing.
Delivery Accountability
You direct the work day to day; Miracuves stays answerable for the person - attendance, leave cover, conduct and a swap if the fit goes wrong - so you never manage a contractor relationship on your own.
2-Week Replacement Guarantee
If an augmented engineer is not the right fit in the first 2 weeks, Miracuves replaces them at no additional cost, and whatever they merged stays in your repository.
What Is Included
What staff augmentation actually covers
Augmentation is the right answer when you know what to build and lack the hands. It is the wrong answer when the problem is that nobody has decided what to build.
Skills you are missing now
Filling a specific gap in an existing team, rather than assembling a separate unit that needs managing alongside yours.
In scopeWorking inside weeks
Practitioners already vetted, so the delay is onboarding rather than a hiring cycle that runs for a quarter.
In scopeYou direct the work
Your priorities, your tickets, your review standards. Augmentation does not come with an opinion about your roadmap.
In scopeIn your tools from day one
Repositories, boards and CI, using your conventions rather than importing a vendor workflow alongside them.
In scopeEnding cleanly
Notice terms agreed upfront and knowledge documented, so ending the engagement does not strand work in someone else's head.
In scopeWhen it is the wrong model
If the real gap is direction rather than capacity, more hands make it worse. We say so rather than filling seats.
In scopeTools & Methods
What augmented engineers already know
The tools that come up most across the roles we place. Each profile lists the ones that engineer has actually shipped with.
Re
ReactComponent architecture
Nx
Next.jsSSR & routing
Ts
TypeScriptStrict typing
Nd
Node.jsAPI development
Pg
PostgreSQLQuery optimization
Rd
RedisCaching layers
Gh
GitHubPR workflow
Ji
JiraSprint boards
Sl
SlackAsync standups
VS
VS CodePrimary IDE
Jk
JestUnit testing
Cy
CypressE2E testing
Dn
DockerLocal dev parity
Aw
AWSDeploy targets
Fg
FigmaDesign specs
Lm
LoomAsync demos
Onboarding
From signed NDA to first squad sprint
A single engineer usually starts within 48 hours of agreement and a pod within 72 hours. Before anyone gets a login, the engagement letter names each engineer, the hours they overlap with your team, the monthly rate, the notice period and the replacement terms, so your team lead knows exactly who is joining, and on what terms, before the first stand-up.
- Day 0
Brief & NDA
Tell us which roles you are short of - backend, frontend, mobile, QA, DevOps - plus your stack, time zone, sprint length and who each person will report to. The NDA is signed first. We write the matching brief back to you, seniority and overlap included, so you can correct it before any search starts. If a seat needs security clearance or a rare specialism, we say at this point how that changes the timeline.
- Day 1-2
Shortlist & Interview
For each open seat you get one to three vetted profiles showing the stacks, product types and team setups the engineer has worked in. Your own engineers interview them, directly and as often as you like. Once you pick someone, the rate, hours and notice period go into the engagement letter before any repository access is granted.
- Day 2-3
Onboarding
Your admin grants access to the repositories, tracker, chat and pipelines, with only the permissions the role needs. A one-hour kickoff with your team lead covers branching, review rules and the first tickets. From then on the engineer works to your conventions - your PR template, your lint rules, your release process.
- Week 1
First Demo
By the end of the first week the engineer has merged work through your normal review and demos it on Friday, with a written update every day. You judge the fit on real pull requests in your own codebase, and if ramp-up is slower than agreed, the 2-week replacement term applies.
- Ongoing
Scale or Exit
Add a seat - another backend engineer, a QA engineer, a designer - by extending the same engagement letter, or release one with two weeks' notice. Nothing is annual unless you ask to lock the rate. If you later want Miracuves to own a whole product build rather than add people, that moves under the same NDA and the same company.
What happens after you say yes
1. Seats and NDA: the roles you need, who they report to and the overlap hours written down before any code is shared. 2. Shortlist per role: vetted profiles for each seat, interviewed by your own engineers. 3. Access and first tickets: repositories, tracker and pipelines granted, and the first sprint tickets assigned by your lead.
Start the briefThe first 72 hours
Transparent Pricing
What staff augmentation costs
Published rates. No request-a-quote wall.
Part-Time
$1,499 /mo
20 hrs/week · flexible capacity
- 20 hrs/week per role
- Direct Slack and tool access
- Weekly demo and async updates
- NDA + IP assignment included
- 2-week replacement guarantee
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
Full-Time
$2,499 /mo
40 hrs/week · embedded engineer
- 40 hrs/week per engineer
- 4+ hour timezone overlap
- Weekly demo, sprint ceremonies
- Embedded in your workflow
- 2-week replacement guarantee
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
Burst Pod
Custom
Multi-role squad · scaling
- 3-5 dedicated team members
- Dedicated delivery lead
- Sprint reporting & ownership
- Scales up or down
- Direct access to squad
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
Why we publish ratesA rate you have to request cannot go into a headcount plan. If your plan needs a different structure - three engineers for six weeks, then one - we say so and price it plainly.
What affects your monthly rate
Each seat keeps its rate for as long as the role stays the same. Adding a seat, releasing one or changing a role's seniority is priced separately, in writing, before it takes effect.
Typical engagement structures
Part-time ($1,499/mo): 20 hrs/week per role, for a specialist your team needs a few days a week.
Full-time ($2,499/mo): 40 hrs/week per engineer, working your sprint like any other team member.
Burst Pod: custom quote for 3-5 people with a delivery lead, for a release or migration window.
Every seat runs month to month and can be released with two weeks' notice, unless you ask for annual terms to lock the rate.
Example engagement
What staff augmentation looks like in practice
An illustrative example of a typical project of this kind, with client details anonymized. Figures show what this kind of build targets, not a named client's results.
An e-commerce platform hit a Q4 release crunch with a two-person engineering team and 60 open backlog items - three weeks to launch.
- 01
Challenge
Insufficient in-house capacity, hard launch date, and no time to run a full recruiting cycle.
- 02
What Miracuves Delivered
Three senior engineers embedded in 48 hours, ramped on the monorepo in two days, cleared 40 backlog items before launch.
- 03
Outcome
Release shipped on schedule. Two engineers rolled off post-launch; one stayed embedded for ongoing maintenance.
48 HrsEngineers embedded
40 ItemsBacklog cleared
3 WeeksTo launch
Engagement Brief
- Model3-Person Burst Augmentation
- Time to embed48 hours
- Ramp time2 days
- Duration6 weeks (2 rolled off)
- ReplacementNone requested
Client Reviews
What clients say about Miracuves Staff Augmentation
Verified on Clutch and Google - staffing and squad engagements where Miracuves remained accountable for delivery quality, not just resume forwarding. Clutch reviews below reference specific delivery outcomes - overlap hours, replacement speed, and how practitioners embedded in client repositories - not generic praise.
"Dedicated squad of four replaced our plan to hire five FTEs over nine months. Miracuves delivery lead accountable - not us chasing individual contractors."
S.T., CEOUnited States
"Staff augmentation during ERP migration - scaled from two to eight engineers in three weeks, scaled back to two when go-live completed."
E.N., Program DirectorUK
"Fractional CTO plus two engineers for a client rebuild. Single engagement letter, single invoice - simpler than our old marketplace stack."
A.G., Managing PartnerCanada
Why Miracuves
Six places to check us before you ever call us
Each one is either run by someone else or open to anyone. Check them in any order; the whole list takes about a minute.
Why clients choose Miracuves
01
Company registration
Miracuves Solutions Pvt. Ltd., CIN U62099MH2023PTC406639. Search the CIN on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs portal.
mca.gov.in 02Every number, sourced
Projects, clients, prices and timelines, each one defined and sourced on our public facts ledger.
miracuves.com/facts 03Reviews on Clutch
Client reviews published by Clutch, an independent B2B review platform, not by us.
clutch.co 04Reviews on GoodFirms
A second, separate review platform. Read what clients wrote there too.
goodfirms.co 05The product itself
Web app, admin panel and APK with printed credentials. Try the real thing before a single call.
miracuves.com/solutions 06Clients, by name
Named clients describing their launches, in their own words.
miracuves.com/client-testimonialsThree promises we would stake the company on
Every promise on this site rests on these three. Each one is something you can check, not something you have to take on trust.
01People you can name
Our leadership is public, with real LinkedIn profiles, not a stock-photo team page. A named team works your build and sends you progress on WhatsApp every working day.
Meet the leadership02Proof over promises
Every number we publish, pricing, timelines, project counts, is defined and sourced on a public facts ledger. If we can't back a claim, we don't make it.
Read the facts ledger03A process with a deadline
Ready-made platforms go from kickoff to live deployment in 6 working days, guaranteed: miss it for reasons on our side and we work free until launch. Custom builds get a fixed quote after a free feasibility study.
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Industries
Industries we build Dedicated developers for
The same vetting applies whatever your sector; what changes is the compliance and data your developer handles from day one. These industry pages go deeper on each.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Patient portals, booking flows and HIPAA-aware web apps.
View industryTelemedicine
Browser-based video visits, intake forms and provider dashboards.
View industryFintech
Secure dashboards, onboarding flows and payment integrations.
View industryRetail & E-commerce
Fast storefronts, checkout flows and headless commerce.
View industryMedia & Entertainment
Streaming front ends, subscriptions and content portals.
View industryCreator Economy
Creator profiles, paywalls and membership sites.
View industryTransportation & Mobility
Booking portals, dispatch dashboards and live tracking maps.
View industryFood & Beverage
Online ordering, menus and restaurant admin panels.
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Build with Miracuves - staffing or full product delivery
Augmentation is one way to work with Miracuves, and it assumes you run the team. If you would rather hand over the outcome, the same company builds complete products from 90+ ready-made clone bases or from scratch, under the same NDA and with the same IP ownership. Teams often add two or three engineers for a release, then move to a dedicated squad or a full build once the roadmap settles. The links below cover those other routes, so you can weigh adding people against buying a finished product.
Engagement modelDedicated squadsA self-contained squad - engineers, QA and a delivery lead - for when you want a team working your roadmap rather than extra seats in yours.Vertical solutionsClone & vertical launchLaunch an on-demand, fintech, OTT or marketplace product from an existing Miracuves base, with full source code, instead of staffing the build.Type A catalogTechnology developmentTechnology pages for Flutter, React, Node and more, for when Miracuves should own the whole build rather than add people to yours.Solutions catalog90+ clone productsReady-made products across the major app categories, each listing the stack it is built on before you buy.LeadershipFractional CTOPart-time technical leadership - hiring plans, architecture calls - for when your augmented engineers need a senior lead above them.
Related Engagement Models
Staffing, squads, and build options across Miracuves
Hiring one specialist is one way to work with Miracuves. These pages cover full builds, other roles and team models.
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Frequently Asked
Questions about staff augmentation from Miracuves
Something not covered here? Ask on WhatsApp and you will usually have an answer within two hours.
Ask us directlyHow is Miracuves staff augmentation different from posting a job on a freelance marketplace or hiring a freelancer?
A freelancer is usually juggling several clients and is vetted by nobody but you. Miracuves engineers clear six vetting stages before you see them - a screening call, a live exercise, a review of their past work, a reference, a communication check and a paid trial sprint. Augmented engineers work exclusively on your product during engaged hours, embed in your sprint board, and come with replacement guarantee and published rates without stacked marketplace fees.
Can engineers join our team in the middle of an active sprint without derailing delivery?
Yes - this is the common case, not an exception. Most augmented engineers are productive within 48 hours: repo access, branch conventions, CI expectations, and first tickets are aligned in onboarding day one. They join your standups and take work from the current sprint rather than waiting for a future planning cycle.
Do augmented engineers use our repository, Jira, Linear, and Slack - or Miracuves tools?
Always yours. Miracuves does not impose a parallel toolchain or separate codebase. Engineers commit to your repos, update your tickets, and communicate in your channels. Your engineering manager remains the direct line for priorities and code review - Miracuves handles vetting, payroll, and replacement.
We need three extra engineers for a Q4 release, then want to scale back. Is that realistic?
Staff augmentation is designed for exactly this pattern. Scale up for release crunches or migration waves, scale down when velocity stabilizes - month-to-month with two weeks' notice per engineer. Miracuves has no incentive to keep surplus capacity on your bill after launch.
How much does staff augmentation cost at Miracuves?
Part-time is $1,499 a month per role for 20 hours a week, with direct access in your chat and tools, a weekly demo and async updates, and NDA plus IP assignment included. Full-time is $2,499 a month per engineer for 40 hours a week, with at least 4 hours of time-zone overlap and a place in your sprint ceremonies. A Burst Pod of 3-5 people with a dedicated delivery lead is quoted per team. Part-time and full-time seats carry the 2-week replacement guarantee, and every tier can be cancelled with two weeks' notice. Every quote is written before payment, with no surprise invoices after kickoff.
What if an augmented engineer cannot ramp on our monorepo or legacy codebase?
If the engineer is struggling with your monorepo or legacy code in the first two weeks, Miracuves replaces them at no additional cost. Miracuves replaces with a profile better suited to your stack and codebase complexity. Be explicit about legacy constraints during matching - filtering is applied before you interview.
How does management responsibility split between Miracuves and our engineering lead?
Your engineering manager assigns tickets, reviews PRs, and judges delivery quality. Miracuves owns recruiting, employment, replacement SLA, and engagement continuity. You do not become HR for overseas contractors - but you retain full technical control.
What timezone overlap is guaranteed for augmented engineers?
Minimum four-hour live overlap per engineer, confirmed in writing before start, with async Slack updates covering remaining hours. Overlap windows are aligned to your primary business timezone - US, UK, EU, or APAC as required.
What is the minimum engagement length for a short burst augmentation?
No annual contract. Month-to-month is standard with two weeks' notice. Four-to-six-week burst engagements for launch support are common. Part-time at $1,499/mo covers 20 hours per week when you need fractional capacity rather than full-time headcount.
What are engineering staff augmentation services?
Engineering staff augmentation services supply engineers who join your existing team for a set period and work your backlog under your own technical lead. Miracuves provides backend, frontend, mobile, QA and DevOps engineers at $1,499 a month part-time or $2,499 a month full-time per engineer, month-to-month with two weeks' notice per seat.
Do you offer embedded engineering staff augmentation?
Yes. Firmware and embedded engineers are placed the same way - inside your team, directed by your lead - through the Hire Embedded Systems Developers page, which sets out the vetting and the rate for that role. They can join alongside other augmented engineers on one engagement letter.
Can we release one augmented engineer and keep the others?
Yes. Every seat has its own two weeks' notice, so you can release one engineer after a launch and keep the rest. The engagement letter is updated, the remaining rates do not change, and the departing engineer uses the notice period to hand over open work.
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Tell us which seats you need to fill, for how long and who they will report to, plus your stack, time zone and first sprint goal. Within one business day Miracuves replies with matched profiles for each role, the published rate and a bilateral NDA for review, and nothing is committed until you have interviewed the engineers.
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