IT Staff Augmentation With Senior-Led Developers and Marketers

IT staff augmentation is the simplest way to add capacity to a product, web or marketing team without running a three-month hiring process. You tell us the role, the stack and the work that is piling up, and we place a dedicated developer or marketer from 95 Solutions who works inside your tools, follows your process and answers to your lead. You direct the work day to day. We handle employment, equipment, backup cover and quality checks.

It suits founders and managers who already know what needs building but do not have the hands to build it: a Shopify store with a backlog of theme and app work, a SaaS team that needs another full-stack developer for two quarters, or an agency that sold more websites than its in-house team can ship. Unlike a project contract, IT team augmentation keeps you in control of priorities, so you can change direction on Monday without renegotiating a scope document.

Our IT Staff Augmentation Services

Every placement is a named person who works on your account for the hours you book. These are the ways clients use us:

• Dedicated developers: full-stack, front-end and back-end developers (PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python) who join your sprints and ship through your repository and review process.
• Shopify developers: Liquid, Online Store 2.0 sections, metafields, Shopify Functions and app integrations for stores that need steady development rather than a one-off project.
• White label development: unbranded website and store builds for agencies, delivered under your name, with no contact with your client unless you ask for it.
• Dedicated marketers: an SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads or email marketer who works your accounts every week. The strategy side of this work is covered in our digital marketing services.
• Hourly support: a block of hours for smaller backlogs, bug queues or overflow weeks, when a full-time seat would sit idle.

If you are not sure which of these you need, the full list of what we do is on our services overview, and a short call usually settles it.

What Our IT Staff Augmentation Services Include

The monthly rate covers more than the person's hours. This is what comes with every placement, whichever role you book:

Staff Augmentation vs Project Outsourcing vs Hiring

Staff augmentation is one of several ways to get work done without doing it yourself. Each model fits a different situation, and we will tell you on the first call if another one suits you better. For the longer comparison, read our guide to staff augmentation vs outsourcing.

If you have a defined build with a fixed scope and no internal lead, a managed project with our software development team is usually the better route. Augmentation works best when you have a roadmap and someone who can own it.

How IT Staff Augmentation Works With Us

1. Scoping call (day 1). We talk through the backlog, the stack, your time zone and how your team runs today (sprints, Kanban or ad hoc). We also ask what good looks like after 90 days, because that decides the seniority you need.
2. Role brief (within 2 to 3 business days). We write a one-page brief covering skills, hours, overlap window, tools, access and the first three pieces of work. You approve it before anyone is matched, so nobody is guessing.
3. Match and intro call (usually weeks 1 to 2). We propose a developer or marketer whose recent work matches your stack and introduce them on a call with your lead. You can ask technical questions, review sample work and say no.
4. Onboarding in the first week. You grant access to the repository, project board, Slack and staging. The first tasks are small and real (a bug, a component, a tracking fix) so both sides see how the person works before larger tickets arrive.
5. Weekly rhythm (from week 2 of work). The person joins your standups or posts async updates, works tickets through your review process and logs time against your board. Mustafa or a senior lead reviews output on our side and flags risks before they reach you.
6. Monthly review (every 4 weeks). Once a month we check delivery, quality and fit with you, then adjust hours, add a second person or scale down. Changes take effect at the next billing cycle.

Roles and Skills You Can Add

Software development staff augmentation

Full-stack PHP and Laravel, JavaScript and TypeScript, React and Next.js front ends, Node.js services, Python scripts and automation, REST and GraphQL API integration, and database work in MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. The same people build our own products, including a custom PHP and SQLite CMS and the AM Jarvis SaaS suite, so they are used to owning production code rather than handing off prototypes.

Ecommerce development

Shopify theme and app work, WooCommerce and WordPress plugins, bulk product imports, feed fixes for Google Merchant Center and speed work on Core Web Vitals. Ecommerce is where most augmentation requests come from, because store backlogs never really stop: new collections, new apps, new promotions and new tracking requirements arrive every month.

Marketing roles

SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, Klaviyo email and analytics. A dedicated marketer is useful when you have a strategy (or a fractional CMO) but nobody to run the weekly work: building campaigns, publishing content, fixing tags and pulling reports.

Choosing the right seniority

A dedicated developer works well tickets that are already defined: components, bug fixes, integrations and theme changes reviewed by your lead. A senior developer is the better choice when the work needs judgment as well as hands, such as designing a data model, untangling a legacy codebase, setting up deployment or reviewing other people's code. If your team has no senior engineer at all, book the senior role first. A cheaper seat that needs constant direction costs more in your lead's time than it saves on the invoice.

Staff Augmentation Tools and Tech Stack

We work in your tools, not ours. If your team runs on Jira and GitLab, so does your augmented developer. If you have no tooling yet, we can set up a simple board and repository structure that you own from the start.

Short-Term, Long-Term and Skill-Based Staff Augmentation

Staff augmentation, which some vendors sell as resource augmentation services, comes in a few shapes, and the right one depends on how long the need lasts and how specific the skill is.

• Short-term augmentation covers a spike: a launch, a migration or a colleague on leave. Our hourly blocks suit this, since a full-time seat would sit idle afterwards.
• Long-term augmentation adds a dedicated person for quarters rather than weeks, usually to work a product or store roadmap. Most of our placements are this type, and the context the person builds up is the main return.
• Skill-based augmentation brings in one expert for work your team cannot do yet, such as Shopify Functions, server-side tracking or a Laravel API, often alongside your existing developers.

Building a Dedicated Development Team Around Your Roadmap

One person clears a backlog. A dedicated development team moves a roadmap. When the work spans front end, back end and marketing, we group people into a small unit that shares context and reports through one lead on your side.

Common setups we put together:

• Store growth pod: a Shopify developer plus a CRO or paid media marketer, so test ideas get built the same week they are agreed instead of waiting for a developer to free up.
• Product pod: a full-stack developer and a front-end developer working a SaaS roadmap, with code review inside the pair before it reaches your lead.
• Agency overflow pod: a developer and a detail-minded builder delivering white label web development for an agency's clients.

We keep teams small on purpose. Two or three people who know your codebase beat six who each know a slice of it. If the roadmap later needs a full project team with design and QA, we can move the work into a fixed-scope project without losing the people who already know it.

Why Choose 95 Solutions as Your IT Staff Augmentation Company

• Senior oversight on every placement. Mustafa has 11+ years in digital marketing and a BS in Computer Science, and he reviews the fit and output of every person we place. You are not buying a CV from a marketplace.
• Practitioners, not recruiters. Our team builds and runs its own properties: Boiler Decoder on a custom PHP and SQLite CMS, this website on the same CMS, and the AM Jarvis SaaS for Shopify and WooCommerce stores. The people we place ship production code for us too.
• Working hours that fit. Our hours overlap UK business hours and the full US business day, so a US team gets a colleague online during its working day, not a handoff at midnight.
• You own everything. Code lives in your repository, accounts stay in your name and credentials are issued by you. When an engagement ends, you revoke access and nothing is held back.
• Simple contracting. Contracts and invoices come from our US LLC in USD, with transparent monthly rates and short minimum terms.

Who Our Staff Augmentation Services Are For

A good fit

• Startups and SaaS teams with a technical lead and more roadmap than developers
• Ecommerce brands with a steady queue of Shopify or WooCommerce work
• Agencies that need extra delivery capacity without adding permanent headcount
• Marketing teams that have a plan but not the hands to run it each week
• Businesses in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and the UAE that want a contract with a US company

Probably not a fit

• You need ten or more people starting next month
• Nobody on your side can set priorities or review work (a managed project is a better fit)
• The work is a single task that will take a few hours
• You need someone on-site in an office

What Makes Staff Augmentation Work (and What Breaks It)

Most failed augmentation engagements fail for process reasons, not skill. These are the problems we see most often when clients come to us from another staff augmentation firm, and how we avoid them:

• Access takes two weeks. A developer who cannot reach the repository or staging bills time and produces nothing. We send an access checklist before day one so everything is ready.
• No definition of done. Tickets that say "fix the header" get three rounds of rework. We ask for acceptance criteria and write them with you if they do not exist yet.
• Hours measured, output ignored. Timesheets tell you who was busy, not what shipped. Our monthly review covers merged work, open risks and quality, not only hours.
• Knowledge lives in one head. We keep notes in your wiki or repository (setup steps, decisions, quirks), so a vacation or a change of person does not reset the project.
• Too many people giving direction. One lead on your side sets priorities. Everyone else routes requests through the board, which keeps the developer focused and the backlog honest.

Staff Augmentation Deliverables and Success Measures

Augmentation sells capacity, but capacity is only useful if it turns into shipped work. These are the outputs you should see from a placement:

• Week 1: access confirmed, local environment running and the first small tickets merged or campaigns updated.
• Weeks 2 to 4: the person working full tickets through your review process at a steady pace, with written updates in your channel.
• Month 1 review: a summary of merged work, open risks and any changes to hours, seniority or scope.
• Ongoing: documentation added to your wiki or repository, and a monthly delivery review with your lead.

Success is measured by your team, not by our timesheets: tickets completed against the plan, review comments trending down as the person learns your codebase, backlog age falling, and fewer urgent requests landing on your senior people. For marketing roles, the measures are campaigns shipped on time, tracking issues closed and the channel numbers your strategy owner already watches.

How to Choose an IT Staff Augmentation Company

Lists of top IT staff augmentation companies rank firms by size, but size tells you little about the person who will join your standup. When you compare IT staff augmentation companies, ask these questions:

• Will I meet the actual person? You should interview the developer or marketer you will work with, not approve a CV.
• Who checks their work? Ask whether anyone senior on the provider's side reviews output, or whether quality is left to you.
• What happens if the fit is wrong? Get the replacement process and timing in writing before you sign.
• What hours overlap with mine? Agree a daily overlap window for standups, reviews and quick questions.
• Who owns the work? Code, accounts and credentials should be yours from day one, with nothing held back at the end.
• How short is the minimum term? A long lock-in shifts risk to you. Monthly terms after a short minimum are reasonable.

IT Staff Augmentation Pricing

Staff augmentation is billed as a monthly rate per dedicated person, set by role and seniority, with an hourly option for smaller backlogs. You see the rate before anyone starts, invoices come in USD, and the minimum term is short. If you are comparing affordable IT staff augmentation services, compare the rate with the senior review, cover and replacement it includes, not the hourly figure alone. Current plans for dedicated marketers, developers and senior developers are shown below.

Need two or more people, part-time hours or a mixed developer and marketer setup? Contact us with the roles and we will send a custom quote.

The quickest way to start is to send us the role, your stack or channels, the hours you need and your time zone. We reply within one business day to book a short scoping call, then send a written role brief with the skills, overlap window, first tasks and monthly rate. Once you approve it, we introduce a candidate for you to interview. If a fixed-scope project would suit you better than augmentation, we will say so and point you to our free audit or a project quote instead.