IT staff augmentation
Our engineers join your team and you direct the work. We handle employment, payroll, replacement and retention.
You have a roadmap and a manager
White Stork provides software development outsourcing, staff augmentation and dedicated development teams to companies across Europe, MENA, GCC, Africa, and Canada. Senior engineers work embedded in your team, in your working day. Code is committed to your repository and deployed to your own cloud account from day one — so you own everything we build, from the first commit.
The five models
Same engineers. Five ways to work with them.
The difference is who directs the work, who carries the risk, and how you pay.
Dedicated development team
A ring-fenced squad that works only on your product — and we carry the delivery management and technical leadership.
You want capacity, not management overhead
Software development outsourcing
You hand us an outcome, not a headcount. We scope it, build it, ship it, and run it in production if you want.
You want the outcome, not the process
Fixed scope and fixed price
A defined brief, a fixed price, a fixed delivery date. The commercial risk of overrun sits with us.
Scope is settled; budget can’t move
CTO as a service
Senior technical leadership without a full-time hire: architecture decisions, due diligence, cloud and security review.
You need the decisions, not the hands
Whichever model you choose, you keep the code, the cloud account, and the control.
The five models
Same engineers. Five ways to work with them.
The difference is who directs the work, who carries the risk, and how you pay.
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IT staff augmentation
Our engineers join your team and you direct the work. We handle employment, payroll, replacement and retention.
You have a roadmap and a manager
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Dedicated development team
A ring-fenced squad that works only on your product — and we carry the delivery management and technical leadership.
You want capacity, not management overhead
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Software development outsourcing
You hand us an outcome, not a headcount. We scope it, build it, ship it, and run it in production if you want.
You want the outcome, not the process
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Fixed scope and fixed price
A defined brief, a fixed price, a fixed delivery date. The commercial risk of overrun sits with us.
Scope is settled; budget can’t move
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CTO as a service
Senior technical leadership without a full-time hire: architecture decisions, due diligence, cloud and security review.
You need the decisions, not the hands
- Not sure?
We’ll tell you which one fits
Most engagements start as staff augmentation or a scoped project and change shape later. You can move between models without changing vendor — or repository.
Get in touch
What this looks like in practice
Every model on this page is one we already run
Why White Stork
Search for an engineering partner in Europe and you get three kinds of company.We’re the fourth.
Eastern European outsourcers
They answer “where are your engineers?” by listing twenty-five delivery locations, or by not answering. At two thousand people you’re an account number.
White Stork
We’re a senior team small enough that you know everyone on it, and we answer the location question directly.
Talent platforms
They find you a vetted individual, fast. When that individual leaves, everything they knew leaves too.
White Stork
We give you a team that stays — and that can run your infrastructure, which a freelancer cannot.
European-fronted shops
A local address, an undisclosed delivery team, and a European margin on top.
White Stork
We’re the delivery team. You’re not paying for the wrapper.
What it costs
We don’t publish rate cards, the right number depends on seniority and role.
We don’t compete for position. We’re a senior, AWS-credentialed team, and we’re priced accordingly.
Not the cheapest, deliberately
We are not the cheapest offshore option and we don’t compete for that position. We’re a senior, AWS-credentialed team, and we’re priced accordingly.
No hidden costs
One monthly figure per engineer covers employment, payroll, equipment, replacement and retention. Minimum one engineer, minimum three months.
How you stay in control
Who owns what, which law applies, and how you pay
We’re a Lebanese company working with worldwide clients, and we’d rather answer the obvious questions here than have you wonder about them later.
- You hold the asset — not us
Code is committed to your repository and deployed into your own cloud account from day one. Not handed over at the end of a phase; there is no handover, because it was never ours to hold. If you ended the engagement this afternoon, everything we’ve built is already yours, already running, in infrastructure you control. This is how we work with every client, not a concession negotiated for large ones.
- English governing law
Our contracts are written under English law. Nobody is litigating anything in Beirut.
- You pay against milestones
Work is billed against agreed milestones or against time already delivered — never far in advance. Your exposure at any moment is one billing period, not a project.
- A third party has already vetted us
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status is audited by AWS, held to a technical and operational bar, and publicly verifiable on the AWS Partner Finder — not a claim on our own website.
Four steps, and you choose every engineer.
4 steps
A call
What you’re building, what’s missing, which model fits. No obligation.
FreeYou choose the people
CVs, then interviews. You say yes or no to every engineer.
They start inside your systems
Your repository, your cloud account, your tools, from day one.
Two weeks in, we check
If the fit is wrong, we replace — that’s our problem to solve, not yours.
Questions buyers ask
It’s the fastest way to add a specific skill — DevOps, cloud, AI — without a permanent hire.
Who manages the work. In staff augmentation the engineers join your team and you direct them day to day. In a dedicated team the squad works only on your product but we carry delivery management and technical leadership — you set priorities without running the engineering. Staff augmentation suits teams with a manager; a dedicated team suits those without one.
You do, from the first commit. Code is written directly into your repository and deployed to your own cloud account — we never hold the asset, so there’s nothing to transfer at the end. The system, the code and the data are yours throughout.
A senior engineer typically costs around 40% less than the fully-loaded cost of an equivalent in-house hire in the UK or Western Europe — including employer contributions, benefits, recruitment and workspace — and a fraction of a consultancy day rate. One monthly figure per engineer covers everything.
One engineer, three months.