Engineering capacity that works inside your team.Not a vendor beside it.
Talent.ID employs experienced technology professionals who work directly with your engineering organisation. You keep the product, the roadmap, the architecture and the daily technical work.
What it means here.
Talent.ID employs technology professionals who work directly with your engineering organisation. Your team retains control of the product, roadmap, architecture and day-to-day technical work. Talent.ID handles the employment, payroll and employee benefits behind them.
That is the whole model. There is no account manager between you and the engineer, and no separate delivery team interpreting your requirements.
Your team manages the engineering. Talent.ID manages the employment.
The engineers sit between two organisations. Direction comes from yours; employment comes from ours. That single arrangement is what separates this from recruitment, freelancing and project outsourcing.
Your organisation
Client
- Product
- Business priorities
- Roadmap
- Architecture
- Sprint priorities
- Engineering standards
- Day-to-day technical collaboration
Your engineers from Talent.ID
Employed by Talent.ID
- Backend
- Frontend
- AI
- Data
- Cloud
- QA
Talent.ID
Employer
- Employment relationship
- Payroll
- Employee benefits
- Talent administration
- Ongoing employee relationship
When teams use it.
Consistently the same shape: a capability gap that will still be there in a year.
- Increase sustained delivery capacity
- Add specialist engineering skills
- Support a major roadmap commitment
- Strengthen an existing engineering team
- Reduce repeated recruitment effort
- Build longer-term technical capacity
It is a poor fit for a two-week gap, an overflow sprint, or work you want someone else to own end to end.
You keep every decision that makes it your product.
The lists are different lengths on purpose. You are gaining capacity, not handing over control.
Your team owns
- Product
- Business priorities
- Roadmap
- Architecture
- Sprint priorities
- Engineering standards
- Day-to-day technical collaboration
Talent.ID owns
- Employment relationship
- Payroll
- Employee benefits
- Talent administration
- Ongoing employee relationship
The engagement.
Engagements are designed for sustained engineering capacity, with a standard minimum of 12 months. An engineer who stays accumulates your architecture, your domain and your standards — which is most of what makes them useful.
Standard minimum engagement
12 months
How matching works.
01
Understand
What the roadmap needs, what the team already has, where the gap actually is.
02
Match
We confirm what we can support, then introduce relevant profiles for your review.
03· yours
You interview
Nobody joins your team without your own assessment.
04· yours
You select
You choose. We handle the employment.
05
Integrate
Your tools, your ceremonies, your standards.
Engineering disciplines we work across.
The shape of the capability, not a bench listing. Which specific roles and seniorities are available is confirmed with you for your engagement, never claimed in advance.
Software engineering
AI & data
Cloud & platform
Mobile
Quality engineering
Technical leadership
Availability is confirmed with you per engagement, before anything is committed.
How it differs from the alternatives.
Four other ways to add engineering capacity. Each is the right answer for some situations — the difference is who employs the engineer and who directs the work.
Permanent internal hiring
- Employs the engineer
- You
- Payroll & benefits
- You
- Directs the engineering
- You
- You manage
- Your own employee
Full control, and you carry recruitment, employment and benefits.
Talent.ID staff augmentation
- Employs the engineer
- Talent.ID
- Payroll & benefits
- Talent.ID
- Directs the engineering
- You
- You manage
- The engineer, as a team member
You keep the engineering. We keep the employment.
Freelance marketplace
- Employs the engineer
- Typically nobody — independent
- Payroll & benefits
- The contractor
- Directs the engineering
- You
- You manage
- A contractor relationship, per person
Arrangements vary by platform and jurisdiction.
Project outsourcing
- Employs the engineer
- The vendor
- Payroll & benefits
- The vendor
- Directs the engineering
- The vendor
- You manage
- A vendor and a set of outcomes
The vendor typically takes greater responsibility for delivering a defined output.
Recruitment agency
- Employs the engineer
- You, after placement
- Payroll & benefits
- You
- Directs the engineering
- You
- You manage
- Your own employee, after a fee
The agency finds the candidate; involvement usually ends at placement.
Talent.ID engineers work with Tokio Marine Group.
How the arrangement works.
- Who employs the engineers?
- Talent.ID. They are our employees, not freelancers, contractors or referred candidates.
- Who manages them day to day?
- You do. They work to your priorities, in your ceremonies, to your engineering standards.
- Who handles payroll?
- Talent.ID.
- Who handles employee benefits?
- Talent.ID.
- What is the standard minimum engagement?
- Twelve months.
- Can I interview the engineer before committing?
- Yes. Nobody joins your team without your own assessment.
Questions about replacement and what follows the initial term are answered directly by our team — we would rather give you the actual terms than a general statement.
Tell us what the gap is.
A short conversation about the roadmap and the shape of the team. No pricing until we understand the work.