Team Expansion

Senior engineers embedded in your team, vetted for technical and cultural fit, accountable like founders.

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01Questions buyers ask

What people actually ask before they hire us.

What is nearshore staff augmentation, and where is your team based?
Nearshore staff augmentation means the engineers you add work inside your business day, not twelve hours offset from it. Ours are senior and based in Montevideo, Uruguay — the US Eastern band — so you get full overlap with American working hours and native-English communication. Offshore looks cheaper on paper and spends the difference back on round-trip latency.
What's the difference between staff augmentation and embedded engineering?
Staff aug is a body on a ticket queue. Embedded engineering is a senior who attends your standup, ships PRs against your codebase, and pushes back on your roadmap when they see a better path. We do the second.
How do you avoid the junior-dev bait-and-switch?
The seniors who pitch your work are named in writing in the SOW. They're the ones doing the work. If we ever swap, you approve the swap. That's a contractual commitment, not a vibe.
What does 'accountable like founders' actually mean operationally?
We push back on bad spec. We say no when something will hurt your users. We don't bill hours for ceremony. We ship even when nobody on your side is watching. Same incentives as founders, less equity.
How long is a typical engagement?
Four-plus years on average. Not because contracts trap clients, but because we keep being useful. The shortest is three months (a focused project). The longest is seven years and still going.
02What we deliver

The shape of the work.

Capabilities

  • Senior embedded engineers (no junior bait-and-switch)
  • Technical leadership & architecture review
  • Dedicated squads with named tech leads
  • Long-term partnership orientation

How it goes

  1. Week 1Match

    We propose a specific senior or pod — named, with portfolio and a real-time technical interview if you want one.

  2. Week 2Embed

    The engineer joins your standup, gets repo access, ships their first PR.

  3. Week 3+Operate as part of your team

    Quarterly check-ins on fit and velocity. We optimize for output, not timesheets.

After launch

Same engineer, year three.

Cadence
Your standup, your sprint, your review process. Quarterly fit-and-velocity check-ins, so a seat that stops making sense is retired, not defended.
Commercial shape
Time and materials with an explicit ramp-down clause, so the engagement scales up or down without a cliff for either side — Propelicy's shape.
Reviews
Quarterly: fit, velocity, and whether the seat still earns its place on your roadmap.
Hand-off
Everything the engineer knows lives in your tools and your documentation, never only in ours — Propelicy holds a copy of every decision from the first commit.
03Proof

One client. One result. Real numbers.

AIA

48% lower costs across six mission-critical products · 24/7 ownership · multi-year embedded engagement

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04Related work

More cases that landed here.

Industries

Where we’ve shipped this.

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