Senior Engineers Who Ship From Day One
Staff engineers, tech leads, and domain experts who integrate directly into your workflow. You manage priorities and keep product direction — we bring the expertise. No black-box outsourcing.
Pletava team extension gives you access to pre-vetted senior and staff-level engineers who embed into your existing team. They attend your standups, work in your repos, and deliver production code — the only difference is they sit in a different timezone.
Book a CallWhy traditional hiring and outsourcing fail
Hiring takes 4 months. You need help now.
Your roadmap is slipping because you've been "looking for a senior backend engineer" since Q1. By the time you find, interview, offer, and onboard someone, you've lost two quarters of momentum.
Outsourcing agencies send juniors with senior titles
You've been burned before. The "senior React developer" couldn't explain useEffect. The "architect" had never deployed to production. Outsourcing firms prioritize margin over match quality.
Fake developers are everywhere
Fake CVs, AI-assisted interviews, multiple jobs, ghost workers. You can't afford another "senior" who disappears when it's time to deliver. The industry's trust problem is your risk.
Scaling up and down is a nightmare
You need 3 extra engineers for a 6-month push, then 1 for maintenance. Full-time hires mean severance packages, morale issues, and legal complexity. You need flexible capacity, not permanent headcount.
How team extension works at Pletava
Not a body shop. A curated team of engineers who care about your product.
Embedded Senior Engineers
Full-time developers who join your standups, work in your repos, and ship code to your production. React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Go, Elixir — matched to your stack and domain.
Staff & Principal Engineers
Architectural guidance, technical leadership, and hands-on mentoring. When you need someone who can design systems, unblock teams, and raise the bar for your entire engineering org.
Tech Leads & Engineering Managers
Interim or long-term technical leadership for teams that need direction. Sprint planning, architecture decisions, code review culture, and career development for your engineers.
QA & Testing Engineers
Manual and automation QA engineers who embed with your development team. Test strategy, framework setup, CI integration, and quality advocacy built into your development process.
Mobile Engineers (iOS & Android)
Native and cross-platform mobile developers for Swift, Kotlin, React Native, and Flutter. Ship mobile features with the same quality bar as your web product.
Flexible Team Scaling
Ramp up for product launches, scale down after delivery. No long-term commitments required. Month-to-month flexibility with 2-week ramp-up for new engineers.
Technologies our engineers work with
Frontend
Backend
Mobile
Databases
Cloud & DevOps
AI/ML
From first call to first commit
Discovery Call
We understand your product, tech stack, team culture, and what "great" looks like for this role. This isn't a generic intake form — it's a technical conversation.
Candidate Matching
Within 3–5 business days, we present 2–3 pre-vetted candidates from our in-house team or 175k+ engineer network. You interview them. You choose. No middlemen, no surprises.
Embedded Onboarding
Your new team member joins your Slack, attends your standup, gets access to your repos. We handle contracts, payments, and HR — you manage the work directly.
Ongoing Quality
Regular check-ins to ensure alignment, performance, and satisfaction — from both sides. If something isn't working, we resolve it fast or provide a replacement within a week.
Why Pletava
Top 1% talent, verified
Every engineer goes through live coding, system design, and behavioral interviews conducted by our staff engineers. We reject 96% of candidates. No fake CVs. No AI-assisted interviews. Real engineers, verified personally.
Direct management, not a black box
You manage your developers directly — daily standups, sprint planning, code reviews. We handle payroll, benefits, and retention. It's your team, we just make it possible.
2-week guarantee
If an engineer isn't the right fit within the first 2 weeks, we replace them at no additional cost. No questions asked. We're in the long-term relationship business, not the invoice business.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can't find what you're looking for? Book a call and we'll answer everything.
Book a CallHow quickly can engineers start?
In-house senior engineers can start within 1–2 weeks. For specialized roles, we source from our network and present candidates within 3–5 business days, with starts typically 1–2 weeks after selection.
What timezone do your engineers work in?
Our engineers are based in Eastern Europe (UTC+2/3), providing strong overlap with European business hours and 4–6 hours overlap with US East Coast. We can arrange shifted schedules for US West Coast teams.
What's the minimum engagement?
We recommend a minimum of 3 months for meaningful impact, but we don't lock you into long-term contracts. Month-to-month flexibility after the initial period, with 30 days notice for offboarding.
How do you handle IP and confidentiality?
All engineers sign NDAs and IP assignment agreements. Your code stays yours — we never reuse client code or share it between projects. We're ISO 27001 certified and fully GDPR compliant.
What if I need to scale the team quickly?
We can add 1–2 engineers within 1–2 weeks and scale to 5+ within a month. For larger teams, we plan ramp-up schedules to ensure quality onboarding at every stage.
Stop waiting months for the right engineer.
Talk to us. Your first candidate is 3 days away.
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