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IT staff augmentation is the fastest way to scale your US engineering team without the overhead of local hiring. With DelhiStack, you hire dedicated senior engineers in India who integrate seamlessly into your existing workflows - your Slack, your GitHub, your architecture decisions.
We are not a freelancer marketplace. We are a premium offshore engineering agency with proven processes.
Pre-vetted engineers ready to join your Slack and GitHub within 72 hours of agreement.
Mandatory 4–5 hour daily overlap with your EST/PST or GMT team for real-time collaboration.
You own every line of code from day one. Strict NDAs signed before any discussion begins.
Daily standups, weekly demos, and full Jira/GitHub visibility. No surprises, ever.
Every developer has 3+ years of production experience. We do not staff junior engineers on client projects.
Scale your team up or down on a monthly basis - no long-term contracts or termination penalties.
Staff augmentation adds engineers to your team under your management. You set priorities, run the process, and review the work; we supply and support the people. That division is the whole model, and it succeeds or fails on whether your side of it is genuinely staffed.
The most common failure is a company that adopts augmentation to avoid managing a vendor, then discovers it has more management to do rather than less. Augmented engineers need direction, and if the person meant to provide it has no time, output drifts toward whatever seemed reasonable.
Before starting, identify the specific person who will own prioritisation and be reachable for questions. If that person does not exist, a managed team or a fixed-scope engagement is a safer structure than augmentation.
Overlap has to be deliberate. India and the US west coast share very few natural hours. Successful arrangements define a fixed window — commonly early morning Pacific, mid-evening India — and protect it for standups, reviews, and decisions.
Outside that window, asynchronous discipline carries the relationship. Decisions written down, context in the pull request rather than in a call, and questions batched instead of blocking. Teams that internalise this often find the enforced documentation improves their own practices.
On contracting, engineers are employed by us, so you have no US payroll, benefits, or immigration exposure. Your agreement is a service contract with defined IP assignment, which is considerably simpler than direct international employment.
Expect meaningful output in weeks three to four, not week one. An augmented engineer needs to learn your domain, your codebase, and your conventions, and pretending otherwise sets up disappointment on both sides.
You can compress this with preparation: a working local setup documented, a first task that is real but self-contained, and a named person to answer questions. The difference between a good and bad first month is almost entirely how ready you were, not how good the engineer is.
We suggest a one-to-three-month initial commitment with a clear review point. Long enough to get past ramp-up and see real work, short enough that leaving is inexpensive if the fit is wrong.
Tell us your idea. We'll turn it into a world-class digital product. Free consultation, no commitment.