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.
Staff augmentation services
Onboard top 1% tech talent. Work as one integrated team.
EdgeConsulx 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
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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.
Expand capacity with embedded engineers
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.
Fill critical skill gaps without hiring cycles
Finding a senior engineer with exactly the right stack used to mean a 3-month hiring process. With EdgeConsulx, 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.
Get talent with industry experience
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.
Scale dev teams for major initiatives
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.
Replace underperforming vendors
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.
Collaborate in real time, remotely
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
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.
Also available
Dedicated Teams
Need a few teams to deliver several projects simultaneously?
Spin up focused, delivery-ready pods to handle full builds or workstreams. Together we align on priorities. Then our tech PMs lead the team and drive delivery to maintain velocity and consistency.
Software Outsourcing
Want to offload everything to us, from start to finish?
Hand off the full project lifecycle, from planning to deployment. You define the outcomes. We take full ownership of the execution and keep you looped in every step of the way.
100+ Technologies Covered
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.
Programming Languages
20 techPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaCC++C#GoRustRubyPHPSwiftKotlinScalaRDartLuaPerlHaskellElixir
Frontend
11 techReactVue.jsAngularNext.jsNuxt.jsSvelteHTMLCSSTailwind CSSBootstrapSass
Backend
10 techNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpring BootLaravelRuby on RailsExpress.jsNestJSASP.NET
Mobile
6 techReact NativeFlutterSwift (iOS)Kotlin (Android)XamarinIonic
Databases
12 techPostgreSQLMySQLSQLiteMongoDBRedisCassandraDynamoDBElasticsearchFirebaseSupabaseMicrosoft SQL ServerOracle DB
Cloud Platforms
8 techAWSGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Microsoft AzureVercelNetlifyHerokuDigitalOceanCloudflare
DevOps & CI/CD
10 techDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CICircleCIArgoCDHelm
Version Control
4 techGitGitHubGitLabBitbucket
AI / ML
11 techTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnHugging FaceLangChainOpenAI APIAnthropic APIOllamaLlamaIndexKerasXGBoost
Data Engineering
10 techApache SparkApache KafkaAirflowdbtSnowflakeBigQueryRedshiftDatabricksFivetranAirbyte
APIs & Communication
6 techRESTGraphQLgRPCWebSocketMQTTOpenAPI/Swagger
Testing
8 techJestPytestCypressSeleniumPlaywrightJUnitMochaVitest
Security
7 techOAuth2JWTSSL/TLSHashiCorp VaultOWASP toolsSnykSonarQube
Monitoring & Logging
7 techGrafanaPrometheusDatadogSentryNew RelicELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)Splunk
Automation & RPA
6 techZapierMake (Integromat)n8nUiPathPower AutomateSelenium
Low-Code / No-Code
6 techBubbleWebflowRetoolAppSmithOutSystemsMendix
Collaboration & Project Tools
8 techJiraConfluenceNotionSlackLinearAsanaTrelloFigma
Our vetting process
How we put top performers on every team:
Every year, over 2.5 million people apply to EdgeConsulx. We hire fewer than 1%. Our multi-month vetting process is designed to find engineers who perform at the highest level.
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.
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.
Read moreOur 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 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.
Read moreOur 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.
Read moreNearshore vs. other outsourcing options
Our model wins on quality, cost, and collaboration:
| Nearshoring with EdgeConsulx | Typical Offshore Vendor | Onshore in US | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time Zone Alignment | Full overlap with U.S. | 10-12 hours apart | Full overlap with US |
| Collaboration Speed | Real-time collaboration | Overnight handoffs | Real-time collaboration |
| Talent Seniority | Senior-level equal to US hires | Junior-heavy | Senior-level |
| Vetted Experience | Verified Top 1% | Varies | Varies |
| Communication Skills | High English proficiency | Frequent barriers | Native English |
| Cultural Fit | High alignment with US | Low alignment with US | High alignment with US |
| Cost | Typically 30–50% below US rates | Cheap rates with hidden costs | Highest cost |
Your staff augmentation company
EdgeConsulx 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.
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.
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.
Discuss solutions and decide team structure.
Tell us about your business, challenges, and project needs.
Onboard your team and get to work.
We'll align the project specifications, then select and onboard the right team.
We track performance on an ongoing basis.
We make sure our engineers meet your quantity and quality of work standards at all times.
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 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.