Not a freelancer. Not an agency. A senior engineer who joins your Slack, attends your standups, and ships production code as part of your team — for a fraction of a US hire.
Every CTO at a growing startup faces the same three walls. We built Forward Deployed Engineering to break through all of them.
By the time you post the job, screen resumes, run interviews, and negotiate, your roadmap is already slipping. Meanwhile your existing team is burning out covering the gap.
A senior full-stack engineer in the US costs $150-200K base + benefits + equity + recruiting fees. That's $20K/month before they write a single line of code.
Freelancers juggle 5 clients and vanish when you need them most. Agencies deliver a project and move on — leaving you to maintain code you didn't write.
Time zone gaps, language barriers, and engineers who need hand-holding on every ticket. You're managing them instead of them driving your roadmap.
End-to-end shipping of features in your stack. React, Node, Python, Go — whatever you're running, they run with you.
Database design, API architecture, microservices decisions, and technical planning — not just tickets, but direction.
Your FDE reviews PRs, pairs with juniors, and raises the engineering bar across your entire team.
CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring — the glue that keeps you shipping.
Runbooks, architecture decision records (ADRs), API docs — so your team owns everything when the engagement ends.
Fast prototyping, MVPs, and iteration. Your FDE thinks like a founder — speed and learning over perfection.
No hourly tracking. No scope creep invoices. No recruiting fees. Just a senior engineer embedded in your team for a predictable monthly investment.
Best for teams that need a dedicated senior engineer now
For teams that need senior guidance, not full bandwidth
We learn your stack, roadmap, team structure, and the gaps you're trying to fill. No sales pitch — just technical alignment.
We match you with a senior engineer whose expertise overlaps your stack. You interview them before any commitment.
Your FDE joins your tools, attends your rituals, and starts shipping code in the first week. Daily standups, weekly reports.
When you're ready to hire in-house, your FDE transfers knowledge, documents architecture, and helps onboard your new hire.
Every week you spend understaffed is a week your competitors ship faster. A Forward Deployed Engineer gives you senior capacity in days — not quarters.
Book Your Free Strategy Call →No commitment. Meet your engineer before deciding. Cancel with 7 days notice.
