Embedded Engineering Teams

Engineers that integrate — same standup, same repo, same Jira.

Pre-vetted senior engineers who embed into your team, follow your process, and ship production code from week one. Partners, not vendors.

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How It Works

Senior engineers in your standup in 14 days.

Day 0 — Intake call

30 minutes. Skills, seniority, stack, the shape of the problem. No deck.

Day 2 — Interview round

Within 48 hours, you interview 2–3 senior engineers matched to your stack and the work.

Day 14 — In your standup

By week 2: same standup, same Jira, same repo. First PR by end of week 2. Reviewed by both sides.

The pod we drop in

A senior pod with a two-week ramp into your tools.

The default Destm pod is shaped to absorb a real product team's workload from day one — full stack covered, with an embedded coordinator who runs your standups in your tools.

Embedded Coordinator

Pod Lead · runs standups

Lives in your Slack, your Jira, your standup. Single point of accountability for the pod.

Senior Engineer

Frontend

Next.js · React · TS

Senior Engineer

Backend

Node.js · Postgres · GraphQL

Senior Engineer

Platform

AWS · K8s · Terraform

Senior Engineer

Data / AI

Python · dbt · PyTorch

QA Engineer

AI-assisted

Playwright · Vitest · k6

Stack coverage

Default pod covers your full stack

no gaps to plug

Frontend

Next.js · React · React Native

In pod

Backend

Node.js · Python · Go

In pod

Platform

AWS · Google Cloud · Kubernetes

In pod

Data + AI

dbt · ML · vector

In pod

QA + Observability

Playwright · OpenTelemetry · Datadog

In pod

Embedded Coordinator

Slack · Jira · Linear

In pod

Add specialists (security, mobile, ML researcher) on demand — pod scales 5 → 12 in two weeks.

8+ yrs

Longest unbroken engagement, still running

10+ yrs

Longest client relationship, across repeat engagements

2 clients

Past their fourth year with us

The Destm Differentiator

Partners, not an agency.

Six things every staffing firm says they do. None of them actually do all six. Here is how we are structured to do them by default.

Same standup. Same board. Same repo.

Our engineers work in your tools, not behind a vendor wall. PRs land on your branch and your engineers review them.

No junior handoffs

5 years of production experience is the floor. You interview every engineer before they start, and the one in your standup is the one writing the code.

Direct management. No layers.

No account manager sits between you and the engineer. You set the work and the priorities; we carry HR, payroll, and retention.

Tenure measured in years

Our longest unbroken engagement is past 8 years and still running, with two more past 4. A fourth relationship spans over a decade across repeat engagements. The engineers who learned your platform are still on it.

Scale up or down monthly

No 12-month lock-in. Add or release engineers on 30 days' notice, either direction, as the roadmap moves.

AI-assisted QA built in

Playwright and LLM-driven E2E coverage, self-healing selectors, production replay. Coverage reports land in the same CI run your team already reads.

Tech Coverage

Engineers across the modern stack.

Whatever your stack, we have senior engineers who have shipped on it.

Frontend

5 techs

Storefronts, dashboards, internal tools.

Next.jsAstroReactTypeScriptTailwind CSS

Backend

6 techs

APIs, services, JVM-tuned commerce backends.

Node.jsPythonFastAPIJavaSpring Boot.NET

Mobile

4 techs

Native + cross-platform commerce apps.

React NativeFlutterSwiftKotlin

Cloud / Infra

6 techs

Multi-cloud, K8s, IaC, observability.

AWSGoogle CloudAzureKubernetesTerraformDocker

Data

6 techs

Warehouses, pipelines, BI surfaces.

SnowflakeBigQueryPostgreSQLAirflowdbtKafka

AI / ML

4 techs

Production ML, not toy demos.

PyTorchHugging Facescikit-learnOpenAI

Commerce platforms

6 techs

Headless, composable, enterprise.

Shopify PlusAdobe CommerceSalesforce Commerce CloudBigCommercecommercetoolsHydrogen

QA / Testing

2 techs

AI-assisted, self-healing, in CI.

PlaywrightVitest

Bundled with every engagement

AI-assisted QA included.

Tests aren't a separate line item — they're how engineers ship covered code. Lower QA budget, faster feedback, better coverage than traditional QA cycles.

Auto-generated E2E

Playwright + LLM scaffold tests from product flows.

Self-healing selectors

Tests don't break when copy or DOM shifts.

Production replay

Real traffic patterns become regression suites.

PR-level impact

Only the relevant tests run on each diff.

ProjectiQDelivery visibility into the pod we drop in.WorkiQThe people-ops layer behind distributed teams.AI AgentsPods that ship agentic workflows, not just features.

Across the work

Embedded engagement model

Same standups

no vendor handoff

Same Jira

your tools, your process

Multi-year

average tenure on engagement