04 · The Handoff
When you're ready to bring engineering fully in-house, we run your hire process. We write the JD, source candidates, run interviews, onboard the new hire to the codebase we've been running, and stay embedded for 60 to 90 days to ensure handoff sticks. Exit stays clean enough that the relationship continues.
Plan a graduationWe write the JD for the senior React Native engineer your team needs. Calibrated to the codebase we've been running and the work you'll need them to own.
We source candidates through Vermillion's network of senior engineers. No recruiter fee. Candidates already vetted for technical depth.
We run the technical rounds: system design, codebase walkthrough, on-call simulation. Your team handles culture and leadership rounds.
The new hire joins the codebase we've been running. We pair-program them through the first month, walk them through architecture decisions, hand off vendor relationships, and document the institutional knowledge.
We stay embedded alongside the new hire for 60 to 90 days. They're shipping; we're available. By the end, they own the function and we exit cleanly, or transition to On Retainer.
Most agencies make exit painful. Lock-in is the business model.
We don't compete on lock-in. We compete on the value of the function we deliver while we're embedded. When you no longer need us, we'd rather help you leave well than make you pay to leave at all.
The premium signal isn't trapping you. It's being confident enough in the value we deliver that we don't have to.
Most clients who graduate stay in our orbit:
Some retain us on a light advisory retainer for senior review, hard problems, and on-call escalation.
Some refer us to peers. They have no incentive to under-sell because they're not competing with us.
Some come back when they raise their next round and need to scale engineering again.
The relationship continues. Just in a different shape.
15 minutes. We'll talk through your timeline, your hiring needs, and what handoff looks like for your specific codebase.