Red Lion Network

Team augmentation with senior developers

Behind on the work? Add one of our senior developers.

Our senior developers work alongside your in-house team, in your tools and your process. Week by week, at full-time or part-time hours, for as long as it helps.

In a backlog like the one here, adding two of them pulls the finish from week 12 back to week 5.

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90 tickets, planned for 6 weeks. Finishing week 12, 6 weeks late.
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No long-term commitmentScale up or down weekly

Why teams do it this way

You get our senior developers when you need them, without the cost and commitment of growing your payroll.

  • Scale up and down

    Add capacity for a busy stretch and pull it back when things settle. Your team size follows the work, not the other way around.

  • No long-term commitment

    Engagements run week by week, at full-time or part-time hours. Keep going while it helps, and stop when it does not.

  • Faster than hiring

    No job posts, interviews, or notice periods. We agree on what you need and get started, usually in days rather than months.

  • Senior from day one

    Experienced developers who read a codebase, ask the right questions, and make progress in their first week.

  • Predictable cost

    No recruiting fees, benefits, payroll taxes, equipment, or paid time off to carry. You know what the help costs before it starts.

  • Your tools and process

    We work in your repository, your board, and your chat, and join your standups. Nothing to change on your side.

When teams bring us in

Sometimes it's one busy quarter. Sometimes it turns into years. Both are fine.

  • A deadline is coming up

    A launch or a client commitment needs more hands than your team has right now.

  • The backlog keeps growing

    Your team is busy keeping things running, and the work that moves the business forward keeps waiting.

  • Hiring is taking too long

    The role has been open for months. We fill the gap now, and you can keep hiring at your own pace.

  • You need a skill you do not have

    A framework your team has not used, mobile, integrations, AI features, or anything else you need for one part of the work.

  • Someone is leaving or on leave

    Cover for parental leave, a resignation, or a long vacation, so delivery keeps moving.

  • Your team needs senior backup

    Code reviews, architecture decisions, and a second opinion for a team of less experienced developers.

Skills we add to your team

We work across a wide range of modern web technologies, and we adapt to the stack your team already uses.

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • React
  • Vue
  • Inertia.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • React Native
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • API integrations
  • AI features

Questions we get asked

It means adding one or more of our senior developers to your existing team, instead of handing us a whole project. They work in your codebase, your tools, and your process, and report to you like the rest of your team.

No. Engagements run week by week, at full-time or part-time hours. You can scale up, scale back, or stop when the work is done.

Usually within days of agreeing on what you need, rather than the months a hire takes. There is no job post, interview loop, or notice period in the way.

You get one of our senior developers without the recruiting fees, benefits, payroll taxes, equipment, or paid time off, and without the risk of hiring for a need that changes. When the work is done, it simply ends.

There is a team behind the person. Their work is reviewed, someone can cover if they are out, and you are not relying on one individual staying available.

Yes. Your repository, your project board, your chat, your standups, and your review process. We fit into how your team already works.

Yes. Capacity is set week by week, so you can add more for a busy stretch and pull back when things settle.

Tell us and we will fix it, whether that means a different developer or ending the engagement. There is nothing locking you in.

Yes. We work remotely with teams across the U.S., in your repository, your chat, and your standups, and we can travel when a project calls for it. We're based in Bradenton, serving the Sarasota–Bradenton area and clients nationwide.

Yes. If you would rather hand the work over than add people to your team, we design and build custom web apps, websites, and mobile apps ourselves.

Let's get your team the hands it needs.

Free 15-minute call. Tell us where you're short-handed.