Three engagement models, one sprint cadence.
Whether you need a single senior contractor by next week, a permanent core engineer dialed into a long-term mission, or a fully formed pod ready to own a product surface — SprintHire deploys talent on the same agile cadence your team already trusts.
Agile Contractor Placement
Senior independent specialists deployed against a discrete mission. Ideal for surge capacity, focused expertise injections, or 90-day delivery sprints.
- 48–96 hour shortlist
- Weekly retro telemetry
- Contract-to-hire optional
Core Engineer Sourcing
Full-time permanent placement of senior ICs and engineering leaders into roles that anchor your roadmap for years, not quarters.
- Architecture-deep calibration
- Leadership pairing
- 30-day replacement guarantee
Team Assembly & Pods
Pre-assembled pods that have already shipped together. Drop in a platform, growth, ML, or modernization squad and skip team-formation lag.
- 3–8 person pods
- Embedded tech lead
- Shared retro with your team
Agile sourcing flowchart
How a requirement becomes a placement.
Every engagement runs through the same observable pipeline. You can subscribe to any stage and see exactly what's happening, who's moving, and where the bottleneck is.
Intake
Mission charter, success metrics, governance touchpoints.
Graph match
Bench scan plus warm referral activation across your stack.
Calibration
Technical pairing, architecture conversation, async fit check.
Place & sustain
Offer engineering, onboarding plan, telemetry handoff.
Capability coverage
The competencies our placement pods specialize in.
We don't try to staff everything. Our depth is concentrated where modern product engineering meets cloud platforms, distributed systems, and applied AI.
Applied AI & ML Engineering
From LLM application engineering to MLOps platforms and applied research roles. We source the rare practitioners who can move models out of notebooks and into shipped product.
Cloud Platform & SRE
Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, developer experience. The engineers who keep the lights on at scale and make the rest of your org faster.
Product & Growth Engineering
Full-stack ICs who own surfaces end-to-end, ship experiments weekly, and operate fluently between the design system and the data warehouse.
- Senior Full-Stack EngineerS+
- Staff / Principal EngineerS
- Engineering ManagerS
- Platform / DevEx EngineerS
- Applied ML EngineerA+
- Mobile EngineerA
Pod catalogue
Pre-assembled squads ready to onboard this sprint.
Each pod ships with a tech lead, working agreements, and a track record of production delivery together. Start with a pod, scale or split as your roadmap evolves.
Platform Pod
Growth Pod
AI App Pod
Data Pod
Mobile Pod
Modernization Pod
API Pod
Security Pod
Not sure which model fits?
Send a brief and a sprint lead will route you to the right engagement model in the first reply.