Team as a Service
Senior engineers embedded in your team, on your timeline.
Hiring senior engineers in Nairobi is competitive, slow, and expensive, and the wrong hire sets you back months. 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's Included
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Dedicated Engineering Pods
We deploy small, self-sufficient pods, typically 2 to 4 engineers with backend, frontend, ...
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Staff Augmentation
Need one or two extra hands for a specific project or peak period? We place individual sen...
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Technical Leadership
We provide fractional CTO or Tech Lead capacity for companies that need engineering leader...
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Product-Embedded Design
Our UX designers can join your product team to own the design process end-to-end, from use...
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Flexible Engagement Length
Contracts start at one month and can run indefinitely. We don't lock you into long-term co...
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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 directly alongside your team, scoped to a specific stack or feature area. No agency overhead, no juniors learning on your dime.
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 Figma 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. We don't lock you into long-term commitments before you've seen our work, so you can extend month-on-month for as long as the engagement delivers value.
Timezone-Aligned Collaboration
We work East Africa Time, which overlaps with European mornings and Middle Eastern business hours. For clients in Europe and the Gulf, this means real-time collaboration during your working day without the timezone penalty of offshore teams.
Why Afriq Silicon
What makes our Team as a Service service different.
Africa-contextual engineers who ship
Our engineers have built for African markets: M-Pesa integrations, USSD flows, offline-capable apps, and multi-language interfaces. They don't need context on why connectivity is unreliable or why a feature needs a low-bandwidth fallback.
No recruitment risk
Every Afriq Silicon engineer is already vetted and onboarded before joining your team. If someone isn't the right fit, we swap them out, your project doesn't stall while you post a job ad.
Transparent time reporting
We use project management tools you can see into, Jira, Linear, Notion, and provide weekly summaries of what was built, what's blocked, and what's planned. No black box billing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about our Team as a Service service.
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Who manages the engineers, us or Afriq Silicon?
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Related Projects
Real work we have done in this service area.
E-Commerce Platform Case Study: Nkai Electronics
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Engineering Kilele Hub’s Behavioural 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....
Further Reading
Articles from our team on topics related to Team as a Service.
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