One of our top 1% AI-native engineers — fluent in agentic flows, shipping the output of 5 traditional devs — working full-time inside your codebase, your Slack, your stand-ups. Senior or staff/lead level. Monthly subscription. Three-month minimum. No recruiting.
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Productized squads are great when you want to outsource everything. FDEs are for when you already have a team and need to drop in serious senior firepower without spending six months recruiting.
From signed contract to engineer in your Slack: one week. No recruiting pipeline, no offer negotiation, no notice periods to wait out.
Every FDE is in the top 1% by skill, fluent in agentic flows (Claude, Cursor, MCP, sub-agents), and ships at roughly 5× a traditional dev. We've already done the screening.
One flat number. No equity grants, no benefits administration, no per-hour billing surprises. Pause or step down a tier any time after the minimum.
Both tiers are full-time embedded engineers. The difference is breadth of ownership — Senior FDEs ship features, Staff/Lead FDEs ship features and own architecture.
For teams that need a strong individual contributor shipping in your codebase.
For teams that need architecture, mentorship, and judgment alongside shipping.
You tell us the stack, the problem, and the team. We match you with the right FDE in 3 business days.
Repo access, Slack invite, intro to the team, kickoff call. Your FDE is operational by end of week one.
From week two on, they're shipping. Weekly check-in with us so you know it's going well; we replace if it isn't.
Whatever your team needs them doing. They join your stand-ups, pick up tickets from your backlog, write code in your repo, ship to your production. They are your engineer — we're just the matchmaker and the safety net.
You commit to 3 months at the start. After that it's month-to-month — pause, swap tiers, or cancel any time with 30 days notice. The 3-month floor exists because an FDE needs that long to be properly productive in your environment.
We replace them, no penalty, no extension to the minimum. We're aiming for matches that stick — bad matches waste everyone's time. Flag concerns in your weekly with us and we'll fix it.
Yes. After 6 months of engagement there's no conversion fee. Before 6 months we charge a one-time fee equivalent to 15% of their annual base. Talk to us — this gets negotiated case-by-case.
Globally distributed. Most overlap 4+ hours with US business hours. If you need someone in a specific timezone or country, tell us up front — we'll match accordingly or tell you we can't.
Tell us the role. We'll match in 3 days, kick off in 7.
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