Lightning Staff

IT Staffing

Engineers for your team, vetted by an engineer.

Tell us the role. We source, technically screen, and staff senior specialists who work inside your team, under your direction — and you pay nothing until someone actually starts.

Tell us who you needSee how it works
Staffing pipeline
  1. Brief
    Senior Backend Engineer (Java)
  2. Shortlisted
    3 vetted candidates
  3. Interviewing
    Client tech interview
  4. Placed
    Working in your team
19 years
Commercial software development
Senior-only
No junior placements
7–14 days
To first shortlist
No fee until placed
You pay once someone starts
The engineer who screens your candidates has shipped forMonsantoJasperSoftSwisscomT-MobileThetaRay

Engagement Models

Flexible ways to staff your team.

Staff Augmentation

Add one or more specialists to your existing team, on your tools, under your management.

Best for

  • Filling a skill gap
  • Short-term capacity
  • Scaling delivery fast

Dedicated Team

A full team of specialists working exclusively on your product, coordinated for you.

Best for

  • Long-term projects
  • Sustained product development
  • Ongoing feature work

Try & Hire

Work with a specialist on contract first, then convert them to your own payroll once you’re confident in the fit.

Best for

  • De-risking a hire
  • Building your own team
  • Long-term roles

From Brief to Onboarded

A staffing process with an engineer in the loop.

01

Brief

You tell us the role, the stack, and the seniority you actually need.

02

Shortlist

We screen candidates ourselves. You get 3 vetted profiles, not fifty resumes.

03

Interview

You talk only to people we’d be comfortable working with ourselves.

04

Onboard

Contract, payroll, and compliance handled — the specialist joins your team.

05

Support

We stay your single point of contact for the whole engagement, not just up to the start date.

Roles We Staff

Specialists across the stacks we know firsthand.

Backend
Java / Spring, Node, Python
Frontend
React, TypeScript
Mobile
Android, iOS
DevOps / SRE
Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD
QA
Manual & automated testing
Data
Data engineering, reporting

Why Us

Not a resume filter. An engineer’s judgment.

Vetted by an engineer

Technical screening is done by someone who has personally shipped production systems for 19 years — not a recruiter matching keywords.

Direct accountability

One point of contact for the whole engagement. If something’s wrong, you tell us — not a support ticket queue.

Transparent pricing

One rate per specialist, agreed upfront. No separate placement fee, no surprises after you sign.

Real delivery history

Our founder built and shipped production software for teams at Monsanto, JasperSoft, Swisscom, T-Mobile, and ThetaRay before starting to staff engineers — the vetting is done from that experience.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

You pay us a single hourly or monthly rate per specialist, which bundles their pay and our staffing fee. There’s no separate placement fee — we only earn once the specialist is actually working for you.

Have a role to fill?

Tell us who you need. We’ll come back with a shortlist, not a sales call.

  • No commitment to reply
  • A technical conversation, not a pitch
  • Clear next steps within one business day