Fully managed IT staff augmentation services.
Azendo's IT staff augmentation services add full-time developers, QA, DevOps, data and AI engineers to your team, hired in four weeks from signing. Junior specialists cost from USD 2,100 a month, fully managed. They work from our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand, as our employees. We give them a desk, premium equipment and a manager close by, so your team leads can stay on the product.
Adding IT staff augmentation to your team, step by step.
Name the gap
Tell us which skills your team is missing and how many hours you need. A proposal with one monthly fee follows.
Meet your shortlist
We headhunt and assess as thoroughly as a specialist recruitment agency. You meet the shortlist first.
They join your sprints
Our time to hire is four weeks from signing. Once on board, the engineers work full time in your standups, repositories and planning.
We carry the rest
A service delivery manager follows up on delivery, and you score our work in a short survey every Friday.
Try IT staff augmentation at zero risk.
- No deposit
- No upfront fee
- No commitment
When IT staff augmentation services go fully managed.
A plain placement hands you a person and leaves the rest to you. We do staff augmentation as a full service. Every two weeks, a service delivery manager sits down with you to assess the deliveries and take your feedback on the engineers in your team. If you report a problem, the same manager brings that person in for direct training. You get the capacity without having to run a team.
“We are 100% committed in a partnership. We go above and beyond, which is why we can say that it is truly a managed service we offer.”
Mikkel Schmidt, CEO and founder
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Service
We manage and develop the team
- A service delivery manager who oversees operations and delivery
- A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
- Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
- A Talent Success Manager for every team member
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HR
We are the employer
- Recruitment and technical assessment
- Employment contracts
- Salary and payroll
- Tax and social security
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Facilitation
We provide the workplace
- A desk in our office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
- A Workplace Experience Manager on site
- Team events through the year
- IT support
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Equipment
We supply the tools
- Laptop and hardware
- Software licences
- LinkedIn Learning access
- Device security and management
IT staff augmentation that adds people, not management work.
By our estimate, managing a placed developer yourself takes four to eight hours a week per person. With us, that time goes back to product work. Azendo has run software teams from Thailand since 2010, and our engineers stay 3.3 years on average. That means fewer handovers and less onboarding for your team leads. You keep the backlog, the priorities and the code.
| Hiring in-house | An agency placement | Managed by Azendo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding the people | Your own recruiters | The agency | Our headhunters, at no extra charge |
| Managing them day to day | Your team leads | Your team leads | Azendo, in our offices |
| Your management time | Your team leads' time | Four to eight hours a week each | Priorities, reviews and daily contact |
| Coaching and reviews | You run them | Not part of the placement | Tailored coaching, a 360 every quarter |
| How you pay | Salary, benefits and overheads | A rate per person | One fixed monthly fee |
Managed by Azendo.
Our headhunters find the people, a service delivery manager follows up on delivery and Talent Success coaches every one of them. You set the priorities and review the work, for one fixed monthly fee.
An agency placement.
The agency finds the people and bills a rate. Leading, coaching and reviewing them stays with your own team leads.
Hiring in-house.
You recruit, employ and lead every hire yourself, and pay salary, benefits and overheads.
Azendo delivered great service. The team developed SaaS platforms that support all-in-one digital fire safety solutions, delivering the web app alongside native iOS and Android apps. The system centralizes fire plans, drawings, legal requirements, ownership mapping, and much more. Workflows were designed around how construction teams, facility managers, and technicians actually operate on-site, streamlining what was previously scattered across paper and disconnected systems.
Morten Kjærgaard MyrupManaging director, E-fire 
We were initially skeptical about the outsourcing industry, but our experience with Azendo, along with their level of competence and professionalism, has completely changed our perspective. We have successfully collaborated with Azendo on several projects over the past 2 years.
Adrian Ravn NielsenManaging director, NordicWorkflow 
NordicWorkflow Try IT staff augmentation at zero risk.
- No deposit
- No upfront fee
- No commitment
Choosing an IT staff augmentation company.
When you pick an IT staff augmentation company, you also choose who does the work that starts once a person joins. That means the first weeks, the performance talks, the daily contact with your own engineers and a replacement if it doesn't work out.
When IT staff augmentation makes sense.
It suits a product with more work planned than the current team can ship. Typical triggers are a backlog that keeps growing and a skill the team lacks, such as DevOps, data or AI. Another is a local hiring market that takes too long to fill a role. It suits a one-off project with a fixed end date less well, and there a project vendor is the simpler choice. A useful test is to list the work you would start tomorrow if you had two more engineers. If that list is long and stable, added capacity pays off. If it changes every week, fix the backlog first.
Before you talk to IT staff augmentation companies.
Four things to have clear on your side first:
- The roles and the level. Which skills the work needs now, and which can wait.
- Who sets priorities. One person on your side who owns the backlog for the new people.
- Access and tools. The repositories, tickets and chat channels a new team member needs on day one.
- How you will judge it. What a good first quarter looks like, in shipped work.
Put these five questions to every IT staff augmentation company you speak to:
- Who is the legal employer, and who pays salary, tax and benefits?
- Who notices first when someone struggles, and what happens next?
- What exactly does the monthly price include, and what is billed on top?
- How are replacements and handovers handled if someone leaves?
- Who holds access to your systems, and how is it removed?
Our pricing page shows how the monthly fee is built, so you can check every quote against it.
What a staff augmentation agency leaves on your desk.
Project outsourcing hands a scope and a deadline to a vendor, who builds it and hands it back. A placement agency puts people in your team and leaves the managing with you. A managed team sits between the two. The people work on your product in your tools, and the provider carries the employment, the coaching and the delivery follow-up. Our guide to software development outsourcing covers the project route, and staff augmentation vs managed services compares the other two. If you are weighing other engagement models, see offshore IT staffing and IT outstaffing services. The right choice comes down to who has time to manage people. If your engineering leads are already busy, new people who still need managing only add to their load.
Your first quarter with IT staff augmentation services.
The new people join your standups, your sprint planning and your code reviews like any other engineer. The only things that reach you are questions about the product and its priorities. Leave, laptops and contracts stay with us, and our Talent Success and Academy programme keeps every specialist coached and AI trained.
In the first month they should ship small changes on their own and know their way around the code. A month later they own a part of the product and help plan it. By the end of the quarter, you can point to work that wouldn't have shipped without them. If something slips, say so early: a mismatch in skills, pace or communication is cheapest to fix while it's small. A short weekly note on what shipped and what got in the way is enough follow-up. Once a month, take a longer look at what the new people own and which skills you'll need next.
Common questions about IT staff augmentation services.
What are IT staff augmentation services?
IT staff augmentation services add skilled engineers to the team you already have, so you gain capacity without having to hire locally. With Azendo, our offshore engineers are dedicated full time to your product. They work remotely from Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and we manage them there.
How much do IT staff augmentation services cost?
From USD 2,100 a month for a junior QA engineer and USD 2,200 for a junior developer, full time and fully managed. Each role is part of one fixed monthly fee for an agreed number of hours, and we quote mid-level and senior people in the proposal.
Will the new specialists fit into our existing team?
Yes. We hire each person for your team, and the soft side counts as much as the technical: culture fit, mindset and logical thinking. Each one is assigned to you full time and works on your product only.
Who decides what the specialists work on?
You do. Your product owner or team lead sets the priorities, and the engineers we assign pick up work from your backlog like everyone else on the team.
How do the working hours line up with ours?
You share working hours with our team every day. They work on Thai time, UTC+7, which is five hours ahead of Northern Europe in summer and six in winter. A European morning is their afternoon, and Sydney starts its day three to four hours before they do.
Which technologies can you cover?
Almost any. We don't keep developers on a bench, so we hire for your stack when you need it and assess every candidate on it.
Can we start with one specialist?
Yes. Adding one skill first, such as DevOps or QA, is a good way to start, and the next role can join later.
Who coaches and reviews the specialists?
Their Talent Success manager. Every team member has a development plan, rebuilt every quarter, and coaching as often as that plan calls for. They also have a well-being check-in every two weeks and a 360-degree review every quarter.
What if a specialist isn't the right fit?
We replace them at no cost to you. We also handle the handover with your team lead, so the work in the sprint carries on.
How is this different from an agency placement?
An agency places people, and managing them is then your job. With us, the engineers are our employees. We train them, coach them and handle the daily people management in our offices. Your team leads only direct the work.
Get your IT staff augmentation proposal.
Write a few lines about the work your team has no time for. We come back with the roles to hire for it and the monthly fee, in writing.
- No deposit and no upfront fee
- No commitment until the right people are on your team
- If we can't find them inside the agreed window, you walk away at no cost
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