Senior Software & AI Engineers as Staff Augmentation
Experienced engineers embedded into your team, with AI-accelerated workflows built in.
Sphere Techlabs provides senior engineers who plug into your existing product, platform, or data teams and start contributing quickly. They bring strong fundamentals in modern web and cloud stacks, plus hands-on experience using AI tooling to move faster without sacrificing code quality.
Engineers who increase momentum, not meetings.
You don't need more status updates—you need people who can understand your system, take ownership of problems, and ship. Our engineers are comfortable working in complex environments, collaborating with your leads, and using good judgment instead of waiting for perfect specs.
Full-stack engineers
Comfortable across the entire application stack: frontend, backend, and everything in between.
They can own features end-to-end—from API design and database changes to UI implementation and rollout—making them ideal for product teams that need versatility.
Backend engineers
APIs, databases, and system architecture specialists.
These engineers focus on performance, reliability, and clean boundaries between services. They're a great fit for integrations, platform work, and data-heavy applications where correctness and scalability matter.
Cloud & DevOps engineers
Infrastructure, deployments, and reliability experts.
They help you tame environments, CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Expect cleaner pipelines, more predictable releases, and fewer "it works on my machine" moments.
AI integration engineers
Engineers who build intelligent features into your products.
They understand both the application stack and modern AI tooling—LLM APIs, retrieval, vector stores, and evaluation. They help you add AI-powered features safely, with proper guardrails and monitoring.
Small squads / pods
Complete teams that can own features end-to-end.
When you need more than one person, we can assemble a mini-team (for example: a senior full-stack engineer, a backend/infra specialist, and a supporting engineer) that takes responsibility for an entire product area or initiative.
How engagement works
We aim for a setup where our engineers feel like part of your team, not an external black box. Clear expectations, lightweight process, and fast ramp-up.
Align on needs
We start by understanding your tech stack, team structure, roadmap, and constraints.
Do you need feature delivery, platform work, firefighting, or all of the above? We clarify responsibilities, seniority, and communication expectations up front.
Meet your engineers
You speak with the actual engineers who might join your team—not just a sales rep.
This makes sure there's a good match in terms of skills, experience, and working style before we commit.
Integrate into your workflows
We adopt your tools and rhythms: standups, planning, code review, and documentation practices.
The goal is that our engineers can join your sprints and start shipping meaningful work within days, not weeks.
Deliver and adapt
We focus on outcomes: features shipped, incidents resolved, systems improved.
As priorities change, we adjust responsibilities, scope, or team composition to match your roadmap.
What makes us different
There are plenty of ways to add "more people" to a project. We're focused on adding the right people with the right mindset.
Strong product sense, not just code
Our engineers think about user experience, business impact, and trade-offs—not just passing tests.
Familiarity with modern AI tooling
Even when the work isn't "AI-specific", we use AI tools to speed up exploration, refactors, documentation, and debugging—without compromising on engineering rigor.
Focus on maintainable code and knowledge transfer
We leave your codebase and team in a better state than we found them: clearer structures, better documentation, and patterns your own engineers can carry forward.
Flexible engagement models
Short-term boosts, medium-term squads, or longer-term partnerships. We adjust the model to your stage and risk tolerance instead of forcing a one-size-fits-all contract.
When this makes sense
Staff augmentation is the right fit when you already have direction—but not enough senior hands to execute at the pace you want.
You need senior engineers quickly without waiting months for hiring cycles.
You have a clear roadmap but lack the bandwidth to deliver it on time.
You're spinning up a new product or initiative and don't want to pull core team members off existing work.
You need people who can plug into your existing stack and practices instead of introducing an entirely new way of working.
You want external engineers who treat your codebase with the same care as an internal team.