Service 02/08 — IT & Dev Augmentation
Our engineers.
Your team.
Embed senior engineers and IT pros directly into your business — for a sprint, a season, or for good. All the skill of a full IT department, none of the payroll.
The problem/
Hiring tech talent is brutal.
A full-time engineer costs six figures plus benefits, takes months to find, and might not stick around. But the work doesn’t wait. Projects stall, the backlog grows, and your one tech-savvy employee burns out doing two jobs. You need senior skill — not necessarily senior headcount.
The fix/
We embed. You ship.
We place our engineers and IT staff inside your team. They join your meetings, use your tools, and work your priorities — for two weeks or two years. Scale up for a big project, scale down when it ships. It’s a fractional IT department that flexes with your business.
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How we plug in.
Fractional IT Department
Ongoing part-time IT leadership and hands-on support, sized to your actual workload.
Embedded Developers
Software engineers who join your team and codebase, not consultants who hand off a PDF.
Short-Term Sprints
A focused burst of senior help to ship a project, clear a backlog, or cover a crunch.
Long-Term Placements
Months or years of consistent support from people who learn your business cold.
Senior-Level Skills
Architecture, networking, security, databases, and cloud — experience you’d struggle to hire outright.
Knowledge Transfer
Everything we touch gets documented. When we roll off, your team keeps the playbook.
Flexible Scaling
Add hours when things heat up, trim them when they don’t. No renegotiation drama.
Your Tools, Your Flow
Slack, Teams, your ticket system, your standups. We work the way your team already works.
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Who it’s for.
Growing Businesses
You need real IT muscle but can’t justify — or find — a full-time hire. Get the capability without the headcount.
Teams With a Backlog
Your developers are buried, or you have none at all. We add experienced hands and start shipping in days, not months.
Offices in Transition
Your IT person left, or is leaving. We hold the fort, document everything, and keep operations steady while you decide what’s next.
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Straight answers.
How is this different from hiring a contractor?
Our people come vetted, managed, and backed by the whole Develop Gravity bench. If your embedded engineer hits a problem outside their lane, the rest of our team is behind them. No recruiting fees, no gamble on a stranger from a job board.
What’s the minimum engagement?
Engagements start at a few weeks. We’ll be honest in the first call — if your project is too small to embed someone, we’ll point you at a better-fit service like custom software or a one-off consulting engagement.
Do your people work on-site or remote?
Either, or both. On-site anywhere within about three hours of Rush, NY (just south of Rochester), plus the Adirondacks. Remote works statewide, and most teams settle into a hybrid rhythm after the first couple weeks.
What skills can you actually provide?
Web and application development, internal tools, databases, networking, cloud and on-prem infrastructure, security hardening, and day-to-day IT support. If we don’t have the right person, we say so — we don’t bluff seats.
What if the fit isn’t working?
Tell us and we fix it — usually by swapping in a different engineer within days. Engagements run month-to-month after the initial term, so you’re never trapped paying for a bad match.
Add muscle,
not headcount.
Tell us what you’re trying to ship or support. We’ll come back with the right person, the right hours, and a flat number.
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