IT Staff Augmentation: Work with Newsoft Engineers

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October 8, 2023

Newsoft provides IT staff augmentation for companies that need additional engineers within their existing teams. Based in Lviv, Ukraine, we help international product teams add expertise while keeping day-to-day engineering management on the client’s side.

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You interview and approve the engineer before the engagement begins. Once onboarded, our engineers work in your project and communication tools, join your team meetings, and contribute to the tasks your team prioritizes. Your team assigns work and leads code review, while Newsoft’s leadership stays involved in the partnership, gathering feedback and helping address collaboration questions.

When staff augmentation fits your team

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Staff augmentation is useful when you have people who can set priorities and guide technical work, but need more engineering capacity or a particular skill set.

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You may need a backend engineer to develop integrations, mobile developers to support an application’s next stage, or QA expertise alongside your development team. The starting point is the work your team needs to deliver and the experience required to contribute to it.

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This model also requires involvement from your side. Your team needs to provide product context, access to relevant systems, and engineering guidance. An additional developer can contribute more effectively when expectations, ownership, and review processes are clear.

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If you need broader responsibility for product definition, design, and delivery, our custom software development approach describes another way to work with Newsoft. The right arrangement depends on the responsibilities you want your internal team and your partner to hold.

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How we start: from the requirement to your approval

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Our collaboration begins with an introductory conversation and requirements analysis. For staff augmentation, the key question is where an engineer can contribute within your existing team.

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Useful context includes your product, technology stack, current team structure, and the work you need help with. A role focused on maintaining a mature application can require different experience from one focused on building new integrations or introducing a mobile platform.

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Your team conducts a technical interview and approves the engineer before the engagement starts. This gives you an opportunity to explore relevant experience, discuss technical decisions, and assess how the person communicates about engineering problems.

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Before kickoff, it is useful to agree on the initial area of responsibility, who will guide onboarding, and how work will be reviewed. These details give both the engineer and your team a clear starting point.

Working within your engineering process

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Our engineers use your team’s project and communication tools, including Jira and Slack, and participate in your team meetings. Day-to-day tasks come from your side, and your team leads code review.

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This places their work within the same delivery process as the rest of your engineering team. Product priorities, technical discussions, and feedback remain connected to the people responsible for your product.

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The division of responsibility is straightforward:

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Area	Client’s role	Newsoft’s role
Engineer selection	Conduct the technical interview and approve the engineer	Put forward engineers for the engagement
Daily work	Set priorities and assign tasks	Contribute engineering work within the agreed role
Code review	Lead the review process and provide technical feedback	Participate in that process and address feedback
Team communication	Provide the working context and include the engineer in relevant meetings	Work in the client’s tools and participate in team discussions
Partnership support	Share feedback and raise collaboration needs	Maintain leadership contact and help address collaboration questions

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For onboarding, we recommend preparing access to the codebase and relevant tools, an overview of the product, and a clear first area of work. A named technical contact can help the engineer understand existing decisions and dependencies. These are practical preparation steps; the onboarding process should reflect your team’s systems and requirements.

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What this looks like in practice

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Cybellum: contributing to an existing cybersecurity platform

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Newsoft expanded Cybellum’s development team with engineers working with Python, Flask, React, TypeScript, and SQL.

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Our contribution included a notifications system, webhook integration, changes to vulnerability management, and user roles and permissions. The work also involved testing, bug fixes, and performance improvements within the product’s ongoing development.

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This engagement shows how staff augmentation can support substantial engineering responsibilities inside an established platform. Our engineers contributed to specific capabilities while working as an extension of the client’s development team.

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Ohalo: an engineer integrated into the client’s team

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Ohalo’s feedback describes a full-time Newsoft engineer who became fully integrated into the company and worked as a member of its team. The client highlighted technical ability, dedication, and commitment.

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This illustrates an important part of staff augmentation: the quality of the collaboration depends on how the engineer works with the people and product around them, as well as their technical expertise.

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LIV Golf: mobile engineering and QA contributions

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Our LIV Golf case study documents a contribution from two Flutter developers and a manual QA specialist. The work included database and caching improvements, live-event functionality, and testing across the application.

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The client feedback in this case comes from Future Platforms and highlights the working relationship, professionalism, and trust in Newsoft’s team.

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This example shows how multiple specialists can contribute to a defined product area, combining implementation and quality assurance around the needs of a live mobile application.

Newsoft’s involvement continues after kickoff

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Daily engineering work takes place with your team, while Newsoft’s leadership remains your contact for the partnership. CEO of Newsoft stay in touch, collect feedback, and help address questions about the collaboration.

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This gives you a direct way to discuss how the engagement is working beyond individual development tasks. Feedback about communication, expectations, or the working arrangement can be raised with Newsoft as well as with the engineer.

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Newsoft also supports its engineers through HR and professional development. That support sits alongside the product context and technical direction provided by your team.

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What affects the engagement and start date?

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The starting point is the role you need to fill. Relevant factors include the required technical experience, the number of specialists, expected engagement duration, working-hour overlap, and your interview process.

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The start date also depends on engineer availability and onboarding readiness. Access requirements, documentation, and the availability of your technical team can influence how quickly an engineer becomes productive.

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Delivery estimates need to account for the actual work: existing architecture, dependencies, task clarity, and review capacity all matter. These are useful topics to discuss alongside budget and timing when shaping the engagement.

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