Hiring senior developers shouldn't be slow, expensive, and uncertain.

IT staff augmentation is bringing in technology professionals from a specialized company to work inside another company's team, wether on a temporary or long project-based allocation, with no direct employment relationship. It is also called IT outsourcing or team extension. The model covers more than developers: QA engineers, UI/UX designers, product owners and project managers, so it can complete an existing squad or build a complete new one. Companies use it to scale technical capacity quickly without struggling with the traditional hiring cycle.

Recruiting, including headhunting, is a placement service: an agency refers qualified candidates for a role and charges a fee, usually a percentage of the hired professional's salary. After the referral, you hire the person, manage them, and carry full responsibility for them. Staff augmentation is different. You get a professional already vetted and ready to work, while the staffing company stays responsible for the contract, for replacement, and for compliance throughout the allocation. The relationship does not end at the referral.

The professional reports directly to your team and your technical leadership, as part of your internal team, with your tools and workflows, and no intermediate management layer. You set priorities, run your own process and direct the technical work. PureCode handles the contract, payroll, the HR management behind that, and does not interfere in the day-to-day technical decisions of your project.

We usually need two business days for scoping the profile you need, five to seven business days to send you the pre-vetted profiles, and seven to fifteen business days total to place the professional working on your team. Exact timing depends on the technical profile and the seniority required, and we'll keep you posted all the way.

Yes. You can hire a professional for exactly as long as the work requires, whether that is a specific deliverable, a seasonal peak, or a technology the current team does not cover. Long-term assignments don't need an end date either. Professionals often stay working inside a client's team indefinitely.

PureCode guarantees replacement at any time during our contract, at no additional cost, whether the reason is performance or availability. There is no cap on replacements and no expiration date for it. Onboarding the replacement is our responsibility, structured to keep the impact on the project as small as possible.

Every PureCode professional assigned follows a structured individual development plan and keeps developing further long, not only before the assignment. Before placement, professionals are trained in the use of AI coding assistants, including Claude Code, within our data protection and compliance rules and within yours. During the engagement, each professional has individual follow-up and access to a senior technical team for periodic consultation. That matters even more if they are the only person carrying a specific technology inside your team.

PureCode provides professionals at every seniority level across the main stacks in the market, with particular depth in mid-level and senior developers in Laravel, Angular, GoLang, Python, React Native, and Flutter. We also place profiles experienced in TypeScript and Node.js, DevOps with Docker and Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.

Companies of any size and sector, at any stage of technical maturity. It works for a company with no structured internal technology team that needs to build that capacity from scratch, and also works equally well for software houses, technology consultancies, and companies with established technical process, that need to scale quickly, absorb demand peaks or cover a technology gap.

Brazil sits one to two hours from US Eastern Time, so most of the business day overlaps by default. No need late night calls. When more overlap is needed, we can shift the Brazilian workday to match. Teams supporting West Coast clients start later and cover the full Pacific afternoon. The hours you need covered go into the briefing and become a search criterion before we look for anyone.

Seniors placed with clients in the United States and Canada work at C1 or C2 on the CEFR scale, the standard most international employers use. In practice that means holding a technical argument, disagreeing precisely and explaining a trade-off without anyone translating. Candidates usually reach us already certified. We confirm the level in practice before anyone is put in front of a client, and the level shown on the profile you receive is one we verified ourselves.

You sign one contract with us. That single contract covers from one professional up to a full team, so adding, replacing, or scaling down does not create a new counterparty. Billing runs monthly in US dollars, paid to a US bank account. Hiring, payroll, benefits, and employment obligations stay with us, so none of the administrative weight of an international hire lands on your side.