Team as a Service from Nairobi, Kenya

Senior engineers embedded in your team, on your timeline.

Senior engineering talent is in high demand, and building a team around it takes time. Our Team as a Service model lets you embed vetted, experienced Afriq Silicon engineers directly into your existing team, working in your tools, attending your standups, and shipping to your roadmap. You get the engineering capacity you need now, without the 3-month recruitment cycle or the long-term fixed cost.

What this means for your organization

Engineering capacity available in weeks rather than months, and the flexibility to scale it up for a programme and back down when that programme closes.

What's Included

Dedicated Engineering Pods

We deploy small, self-sufficient pods, typically 2 to 4 engineers with backend, frontend, ...
Staff Augmentation

Need one or two extra hands for a specific project or peak period? We place individual sen...
Technical Leadership

We provide fractional CTO or Tech Lead capacity for companies that need engineering leader...
Product-Embedded Design

Our UX designers can join your product team to own the design process end-to-end, from use...
Flexible Engagement Length

Contracts start at one month and can run indefinitely. You can start small, see the work, ...

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What We Do

Everything included in our Team as a Service service.

Dedicated Engineering Pods

We deploy small, self-sufficient pods, typically 2 to 4 engineers with backend, frontend, and DevOps coverage. Pods integrate into your existing sprint process and own defined areas of your product backlog.

Staff Augmentation

Need one or two extra hands for a specific project or peak period? We place individual senior engineers alongside your team, scoped to a specific stack or feature area, and ready to contribute within the first sprint.

Technical Leadership

We provide fractional CTO or Tech Lead capacity for companies that need engineering leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. This includes architecture decisions, code review culture, hiring roadmaps, and aligning engineering with business goals.

Product-Embedded Design

Our UX designers can join your product team to own the design process end-to-end, from user research through interactive prototypes to design system maintenance, freeing your engineering team to focus on code.

Flexible Engagement Length

Contracts start at one month and can run indefinitely. You can start small, see the work, and extend month-on-month for as long as the engagement delivers value.

Timezone-Aligned Collaboration

Our working day overlaps with European mornings and Middle Eastern business hours, and we shift hours to meet clients in other timezones. That means real-time collaboration during your working day, with questions answered while you are still at your desk.

Why Afriq Silicon

What makes our Team as a Service service different.

1

Engineers who have shipped hard things

Our engineers have built payment integrations, offline-capable apps, and multi-language interfaces. They design for connectivity limits and low-bandwidth fallbacks as a matter of habit.

2

Vetted engineers, ready to start

Every Afriq Silicon engineer is already vetted and onboarded before joining your team. If the fit is not right we swap them out and your project keeps moving.

3

Transparent time reporting

We work in whichever tracker your team already uses, and provide weekly summaries of what was built, what is blocked, and what is planned, so you can see exactly what you are paying for.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about our Team as a Service service.

How quickly can you embed a team?

We can typically embed engineers within 1 to 2 weeks of signing, and we frontload onboarding so they are genuinely productive within the first sprint.

What tech stacks do your engineers work in?

Our engineers work across modern web, backend, mobile, and cloud stacks and pick up new ones quickly. Where a project calls for expertise beyond our team, we say so and help you find it.

Who manages the engineers, us or Afriq Silicon?

You direct the day-to-day work while Afriq Silicon handles HR, payroll, and equipment, giving you the benefit of an employee without the administrative overhead.

What do we get that we would not from contracting engineers directly?

Our engineers are salaried Afriq Silicon staff, managed by us and accountable to us. You get continuity of the same people, a wider bench to draw on when a project needs another skill, and a firm that stands behind the work.

Related Projects

Real work we have done in this service area.

e-commerce project

E-Commerce Platform Case Study: Nkai Electronics

How Afriq Silicon built a scalable, high-performance e-commerce platform for Nkai Electronics, a Kenyan electronics retailer.

project

Engineering Kilele Hub’s Behavioral Messaging Engine

At Afriq Silicon, we don’t just write code; we build tools that change how businesses communicate. Our work on Kilele Hub is a perfect example.

Team as a Service from Nairobi, Kenya