IT staff augmentation company
Hire the specialists you’re missing or an entire ready-to-go team for your project. SumatoSoft offers to augment your team with software developers, designers, QA engineers, project managers, and scrum masters in just 2 to 5 days.
Our talent pool for staff augmentation
Our specialists are proficient in a wide range of tech stacks and ideally suited to meet the specific needs of United States businesses, whether you need one key professional or a complete software development team.
Backend developers
Development of server-side logic and work with databases and APIs.
Frontend developers
Implementation of user interfaces.
Web developers
Creation of websites and web applications.
Mobile developers
Development of iOS and Android apps. Our mobile developers are proficient in native and cross-platform frameworks.
QA engineers
Manual and automated tests with 100% codebase coverage.
DevOps engineers
Configuration of builds, deployments, and infrastructure.
UX/UI designers
Creation of clear and user-friendly interfaces based on best practices and industry standards.
Business analysts
Accurate description of what needs to be built through the translation of business concepts into tasks for developers.
Project managers / Scrum masters
Monitoring of deadlines and priorities.
Core tech stack we work with
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Why SumatoSoft should be your IT staff augmentation partner
Top 5% talent
We choose the best specialists: 70% of our engineers are senior-level. A rigorous selection process and ongoing training ensure the team’s high qualifications. You gain access to the top 5% of IT talent capable of solving complex problems.
Quick start to collaboration
Thanks to our constantly updated database of available specialists, we can quickly begin strengthening your team. In most cases, our expert joins your project within one week of your request. This is significantly faster than traditional hiring (weeks versus months) and comparable to industry best practices.
Flexibility to meet your needs
We offer convenient collaboration models: whether it’s a short-term team boost for 1-3 months for an urgent project, or a long-term partnership for a year or more with a dedicated team for your development. You can scale your team from a single developer to a full-fledged cross-functional team, and scale up or down as the project progresses.
Transparency and fair rates
We adhere to an open pricing policy: we set the hourly/monthly rate for a specialist’s work in advance (a fixed-price model for augmentations) and have no hidden fees. You pay a fair rate for the expert’s work and know precisely what you’re paying for. All terms are specified in the contract.
Data protection and reliability
Your ideas and data are safe: we sign NDAs and adhere to best information security practices (we also have ISO 27001 certification).
Barrier-free communication
Working with SumatoSoft, you won’t feel any geographical or cultural barriers. 100% of our specialists are fluent in English, and we offer convenient work schedules to accommodate our US clients. The team integrates into your processes: they participate in all meetings, work in your task trackers, and adhere to your established work schedule.
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Challenges you can solve with IT staff augmentation
IT staff augmentation addresses issues such as employee shortages, a lack of necessary expertise, long wait times for new in-house hires, and a need for extra staff after the release. This approach is popular among the world’s largest companies for rapid growth: giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon actively use staff augmentation in their development processes.
Resource or skill shortages
There aren’t enough internal developers for a new project, or you don’t have experts in a specific technology. Staff augmentation allows you to fill this gap quickly.
Tight deadlines and scaling
If a project is tight on deadlines or the workload has temporarily increased, additional specialists help meet the deadline. According to PMI, over 30% of IT projects missed deadlines, often due to staff shortages. Temporary team augmentation solves this problem.
Temporary projects or a lack of incentive to hire full-time
When specialists are needed only for a specific project, it’s more cost-effective to engage them through staff augmentation than to hire them permanently. This saves budget and hiring effort.
Waiting for full-time employees
If you’re in the process of hiring a permanent team and the work needs to get underway immediately, temporary external specialists can fill the gap.
Business benefits of IT staff augmentation with SumatoSoft
Rapid team expansion
You can expand your development team in days or weeks without spending months on traditional hiring.
Cost savings
You pay only for the hours specialists work, without the costs of benefits, vacation pay, training, and other expenses associated with hiring full-time employees.
Access to rare expertise
Ability to bring highly skilled professionals to specific tasks. If you need an expert in AI, IoT, predictive maintenance, and other fields, you can find them through staff augmentation.
Flexibility and scalability
You decide how many specialists to engage and for how long. You can quickly expand your team to meet peak workloads and then scale it back down, avoiding staff downtime.
Control and integration
Unlike full outsourcing, augmented specialists work as part of your team, under your management, fully immersed in your processes.
Focus on key tasks
You free up your internal staff for strategically important work and delegate secondary but essential functions to external experts.
Rapid team expansion
You can expand your development team in days or weeks without spending months on traditional hiring.
Cost savings
You pay only for the hours specialists work, without the costs of benefits, vacation pay, training, and other expenses associated with hiring full-time employees.
Access to rare expertise
Ability to bring highly skilled professionals to specific tasks. If you need an expert in AI, IoT, predictive maintenance, and other fields, you can find them through staff augmentation.
Flexibility and scalability
You decide how many specialists to engage and for how long. You can quickly expand your team to meet peak workloads and then scale it back down, avoiding staff downtime.
Control and integration
Unlike full outsourcing, augmented specialists work as part of your team, under your management, fully immersed in your processes.
Focus on key tasks
You free up your internal staff for strategically important work and delegate secondary but essential functions to external experts.
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Engagement models for staff augmentation
Short-term expansion
Long-term expansion
Flexible scalability
Short-term expansion
Suppose you need staff for an urgent project or for a limited period. In that case, we can provide specialists even for a short period (1 month or longer). This rapid team augmentation helps you complete urgent tasks without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Long-term expansion
For projects with long development cycles, we’re ready to form a permanent, dedicated team that will be integrated into your process for the long term (6+ months). Essentially, this is your remote team, working exclusively on your product for as long as needed. Long-term outsourcing is especially effective when you need a stable team of specialists throughout the development period.
Flexible scalability
You can always change the collaboration format as the project progresses. For example, start with one or two developers, then expand the team to 5-7 people during the active development phase, and then reduce it again after the release. We’ll adapt to your schedule and budget.
How we approach staff augmentation requests
Describe the skills you need for your project or task. If you already have a role description, share it with us. If not, we help you define what experts you need.
Based on your requirements, we’ll send you a shortlist of candidates. You can interview them and choose who fits your team best. After we agree on the terms and sign the contract and NDA, the expert will be ready to join your software development team.
We help you immerse new specialists in your working environment. Introduce them to your team, share tools, and project context. Extended team members follow your internal schedule and fully integrate into your development process, even while remote.
Whether you need a few experts or a whole development team, SumatoSoft specialists help you deliver your project on time and to the quality you expect.
How to identify a reliable IT staff augmentation company
Relevant expertise in your industry
IT staff augmentation services give you access to specialists with domain experience. That should be one of your primary selection criteria. If a small vendor claims deep expertise in every industry with ten in-house experts, they are likely overstating their capabilities. It’s safer to look for another company.
Well-established processes
You can see how mature their processes are from the first contact: how well the intro call is organized, whether an account manager keeps deadlines, and how smoothly the contract and NDA are signed. These early signs show whether the company has well-established processes
and a disciplined development team.
NDA and data privacy
Signing an NDA and ensuring data privacy must be standard for any software development or IT staff augmentation engagement. If a vendor treats this as optional, it’s a serious red flag.
Wide talent pool
A reliable vendor either has a strong in-house team or a proven process for hiring custom teams for projects. In any case, you need to understand where they source talent and how they assess skills and culture fit. If the description of their talent pool is vague or unclear, it’s better to choose another company.
Convenient working hours overlap
Your time zones will likely differ from those of the augmented team. The vendor should guarantee sufficient overlap in working hours for calls, reviews, and quick decisions each day.
High English proficiency
Sales and account managers usually speak good English. The experts you hire must be just as confident. Ask to speak directly with developers and other specialists, not only with sales. You can also ask about certificates or internal training that help the team maintain and improve their English level.
Boost project velocity
Instantly inject new resources to meet your critical deadlines.
Case studies
Intelligent marketing tracking tool modernization
Smart hotel management system
Custom ERP system for Toyota car dealer
The system has produced a significant competitive advantage in the industry thanks to SumatoSoft’s well-thought opinions.
They shouldered the burden of constantly updating a project management tool with a high level of detail and were committed to producing the best possible solution.
Nectarin LLC aimed to develop a complex Ruby on Rails-based platform, which would be closely integrated with such systems as Google AdWords, Yandex Direct and Google Analytics.
I was impressed by SumatoSoft’s prices, especially for the project I wanted to do and in comparison to the quotes I received from a lot of other companies.
Also, their communication skills were great; it never felt like a long-distance project. It felt like SumatoSoft was working next door because their project manager was always keeping me updated. Initially.
We tried another company that one of our partners had used but they didn’t work out. I feel that SumatoSoft does a better investigation of what we’re asking for. They tell us how they plan to do a task and ask if that works for us. We chose them because their method worked with us.
SumatoSoft is great in every regard including costs, professionalism, transparency, and willingness to guide. I think they were great advisors early on when we weren’t ready with a fully fleshed idea that could go to market.
They know the business and startup scene as well globally.
SumatoSoft is the firm to work with if you want to keep up to high standards. The professional workflows they stick to result in exceptional quality.
Important, they help you think with the business logic of your application and they don’t blindly follow what you are saying. Which is super important. Overall, great skills, good communication, and happy with the results so far.
Together with the team, we have turned the MVP version of the service into a modern full-featured platform for online marketers. We are very satisfied with the work the SumatoSoft team has performed, and we would like to highlight the high level of technical expertise, coherence and efficiency of communication and flexibility in work.
We can say with confidence that SumatoSoft has realized all our ideas into practice.
We are absolutely convinced that cooperation between companies is only successful when based on effective teamwork (and Captain Obvious is on our side!). But the teams may vary on the degree of their cohesion.
They are very sharp and have a high-quality team. I expect quality from people, and they have the kind of team I can work with. They were upfront about everything that needed to be done.
I appreciated that the cost of the project turned out to be smaller than what we expected because they made some very good suggestions. They are very pleasant to work with.
The Rivalfox had the pleasure to work with SumatoSoft in building out core portions of our product, and the results really couldn’t have been better.
SumatoSoft provided us with engineering expertise, enthusiasm and great people that were focused on creating quality features quickly.
We’d like to thank SumatoSoft for the exceptional technical services provided for our business. It should be noted that we started our project’s development with another team, but the communication and the development process in general were not transparent and on schedule. It resulted in a low-quality final product.
SumatoSoft succeeded in building a more manageable solution that is much easier to maintain.
When looking for a strategic IT-partner for the development of a corporate ERP solution, we chose SumatoSoft. The company proved itself a reliable provider of IT services.
Thanks to SumatoSoft can-do attitude, amazing work ethic and willingness to tackle client’s problems as their own, they’ve become an integral part of our team. We’ve been truly impressed with their professionalism and performance and continue to work with a team on developing new applications.
We are completely satisfied with the results of our cooperation and will be happy to recommend SumatoSoft as a reliable and competent partner for development of web-based solutions
Frequently asked questions
What is the staff augmentation model?
Staff augmentation is the hiring of external specialists to work on your team. They report to your managers and follow your processes and rules. You pay for their time and retain complete control over their tasks.
How is IT staff augmentation different from traditional outsourcing?
With outsourcing, you delegate a project to a contractor for their management. With staff augmentation, you manage the people yourself and plan their tasks. The contractor’s team operates as a separate unit, not as part of yours. With team augmentation, specialists are integrated into your daily processes.
What are the different types of staff augmentation?
By level of expertise:
Commodity — simple tasks, basic skills, routine work.
Skill-based — specialists with the necessary technologies, but without rare expertise.
Highly skilled — senior managers, architects, team leads, experts in complex systems.
By duration:
Short-term reinforcement during peak workloads or releases.
Long-term team expansion for months or years.
By scale:
One specialist to fill a narrow role.
A small group or an entire team dedicated to a single product.
How is staff augmentation different from other outsourcing models in general?
Staff augmentation gives you people to complete a project, but it doesn’t deliver a completed project. You manage the backlog, priorities, quality, and day-to-day operations. Other models transfer some control to the contractor, along with risks and tasks.
What are the risks of staff augmentation?
- An experienced manager is needed to manage an expanded team.
- Transparent processes and clear tasks are essential; otherwise, people lose focus.
- Culture and communication issues may arise if the contractor selects poorly.
- Without an NDA and adequate security, there is a risk of data and code leakage.
Note: A good provider mitigates these risks through selection, processes, and, if necessary, the replacement of specialists.
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