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Senior engineers in your team, without the hiring marathon.

Overview

A dedicated developer, an AI expert or a part-time CTO — integrated into your team within days, with a flexible commitment and a single point of contact at MAWT.

IT staff augmentation means adding external engineers directly to your own team, under your direction, rather than outsourcing a project. You get senior capacity — developers, AI experts, a part-time CTO — without the delays and risk of recruitment, with a flexible commitment you can scale up or down as reality changes.

Target

For Swiss SMEs and scale-ups that need senior engineering capacity now: a product team missing one key profile, an internal IT department facing a peak, or a company that needs real technical leadership without hiring a full-time CTO.

Details

Hiring a senior engineer in Switzerland takes months and is always a bet. Outsourcing a project means losing proximity to the work. Staff augmentation sits in between: senior people join your team, under your direction, for exactly as long as you need them.

We place dedicated developers, AI experts and part-time CTOs into Swiss teams — profiles we know and stand behind, with a single MAWT contact, a fast start and a monthly commitment that flexes with your reality. Our team reinforcement offers detail each format.

When augmenting beats recruiting or outsourcing

Hiring a senior engineer in Switzerland routinely takes six months, and every hire is a bet. Outsourcing a whole project solves the capacity problem but moves the work — and the knowledge — outside your walls.

Staff augmentation sits deliberately in between: senior people join your team, work in your tools, follow your priorities and report to you. The capacity is yours while you need it; the knowledge stays with your team when the engagement ends.

The profiles we place

We are not a CV marketplace. Every profile we place is someone we know and have worked with — senior by experience, not by job title — and MAWT stands behind the quality of their work throughout the engagement.

  • Dedicated developer: a senior engineer embedded full-time or part-time in your product team
  • AI expert: hands-on experience with agents, RAG systems and LLM integrations across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and open-source models
  • Part-time CTO: architecture decisions, technical roadmap, code-review culture and hiring support, a few days per month
  • Specialist reinforcement for a defined phase: migration, security hardening, performance work
  • Our team reinforcement offers describe each format in detail

How integration actually works

From day one, the engineer works in your environment: your repository, your ticket system, your standups, your definition of done. You direct the work; we make sure the person delivering it never leaves you exposed.

Behind every engagement stands a single MAWT contact who checks in monthly, handles any adjustment — more capacity, less, a different profile — and can draw on our wider network of proven senior experts when your needs shift.

Flexible by design

Needs change, and the engagement should follow. Commitments run monthly: you can scale up for a release push, scale down after it, or end cleanly with a documented handover so nothing lives only in one person's head.

No lock-in, no penalty clauses buried in page nine. If augmentation stops being the right format — because you have hired, or because the work is done — we say so.

What it includes
  • Senior developers integrated into your existing team and tools
  • AI experts for agents, RAG and LLM integration projects
  • Part-time CTO: architecture, roadmap and technical hiring support
  • Start within days, not months
  • Flexible commitment — scale up or down monthly
  • One single point of contact at MAWT
Deliverables
  • A senior profile working inside your team within days
  • Clean integration: your tools, your processes, your priorities
  • A monthly review with a single MAWT contact
  • The flexibility to scale the engagement up or down month by month
  • A documented handover and knowledge transfer when the engagement ends
Takeaways
  • Senior capacity in days — recruitment in Switzerland takes months and is a bet.

  • Your team, your direction: augmentation is not outsourcing.

  • Developer, AI expert or part-time CTO, matched to the actual need.

  • Monthly flexibility, no lock-in, clean handover at the end.

  • One senior MAWT contact stands behind every engagement.

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Frequent questions

What is the difference between staff augmentation and outsourcing a project?

With outsourcing, you hand over a scope and receive a result; the work and knowledge live outside your company. With augmentation, the engineer joins your team and works under your direction, in your tools. You keep control of priorities and the knowledge stays in-house.

How fast can a developer start?

Typically within one to two weeks, sometimes days, depending on the profile. We start with a short call to understand the need, propose one or two matching profiles from people we actually know, and you meet them before anything is signed.

How much does a dedicated developer cost compared to hiring?

The daily rate of a senior external is higher than a salary line, but the full comparison includes recruitment fees, months of vacancy, social charges, onboarding time and the risk of a wrong hire. For a need of six to eighteen months, augmentation is very often the cheaper and always the faster option. We quote transparently, per profile.

What is a part-time CTO and do we need one?

A part-time CTO gives you senior technical leadership a few days per month: architecture decisions, technology choices, review of vendor proposals, support for technical hiring. It fits companies whose software matters strategically but which can't justify — or find — a full-time CTO. If your developers lack a senior counterpart for big decisions, it is worth a conversation.

What happens when the engagement ends?

A planned, documented exit: code and decisions documented, open work handed over, and a transfer session with your team so nothing depends on the departing person's memory. Ending well is part of the service, not an afterthought.

Can the engineer work on-site in Geneva?

Yes. We are based in Geneva and serve French-speaking Switzerland; on-site, hybrid or remote arrangements are all possible depending on the profile and your preference. For team integration, some regular on-site presence usually pays off.
Next steps

The profile you're missing, in your team next week.