Fill the gap without the hiring cycle.
Whether it’s temporarily augmenting your team or covering for engineers on that much-needed vacation, get engineers embedded with your team when you need them, without the hassle or overhead of a full hiring cycle.
One pool of engineers, four ways to plug in.
Dedicated engineers
Burst capacity
Specialist skills
Flexible engagement
With engineer subcontracting, vs. without
Hiring is slow, rigid, and expensive to undo. Subcontracting isn’t. Here’s what actually changes.
Without subcontracting
- Weeks or months of a hiring cycle before anyone starts
- Full-time salary and overhead for work that might last one sprint
- Projects stall when a key engineer is out or resigns
- No easy way to bring in a skill your team doesn't have
- Team is either overstaffed in slow periods or underwater in busy ones
With Arrowsoft subcontracting
- Engineers embedded with your team in days, not months
- Pay for the engagement, not a full-time headcount
- Coverage for planned leave, sudden gaps, or crunch periods
- Specialists brought in for exactly the skill gap you have
- Team scales up or down as your roadmap actually changes
Four ways to staff up, without the overhead.
Not every gap needs the same fix, so here is how each engagement is actually built for what it is covering.
Dedicated engineers
One or more engineers embedded with your team on an ongoing basis, working inside your existing tools and workflow like a hire of your own, without carrying them on your own payroll.
- Works inside your existing tools, tickets, and standups
- Full context retained across sprints, never re-explained
- Ongoing engagement, not a one-off project
- Swap or scale the engineer(s) as the engagement evolves
Best for: teams that need consistent extra capacity, not just a burst
Short-term burst capacity
Extra hands for a launch, a migration, or a deadline crunch, brought in fast and released just as easily once the crunch is over.
- Fast onboarding built for short engagements
- Built for launches, migrations, and deadline pushes
- No long-term commitment or notice period
- Scoped to the crunch, not an open-ended hire
Best for: teams facing a known deadline or a one-off spike in demand
Specialist skill gaps
Bring in specific expertise your current team doesn’t have, such as a framework, platform, or domain, without hiring a full-time specialist for a need that may not be permanent.
- Access to skills outside your current team's stack
- Knowledge transfer back to your core team, if needed
- No need to hire permanently for a temporary need
- Right-sized engagement, ranging from a few hours a week to full-time.
Best for: teams blocked by a skill gap they don’t want to hire around
Flexible engagement
Scale the team up or down as your roadmap changes, so you’re never carrying more payroll than the work in front of you actually needs.
- Adjust team size sprint to sprint, not year to year
- Easy to ramp back up when the next project starts
- No severance or layoff overhead when demand drops
- Same engineers kept on where possible, for continuity
Best for: teams whose demand shifts noticeably through the year
Scoped, matched, embedded.
Scoped
We figure out exactly what skill and how much time you need.
Matched
You’re matched with engineer(s) who fit your stack and the gap.
Embedded
They join your team, tools, and workflow, rather than operating like a black box.
Tell us what’s stalled or short-staffed. We’ll get engineers on it.