Service 04

Product Engineering
& Support

A senior engineering partner for your live product. Consistent feature delivery, technical health management, and architectural leadership - without the complexity of building an internal team.

Is This You?

Who This Engagement Model Is For

Product engineering is not for early-stage validation. It's for companies whose products are real, whose users have real expectations, and whose engineering decisions have real consequences.

Series A/B startups that have shipped but can't scale their team fast enough
Companies whose founding engineers are becoming bottlenecks
Products outgrowing their original architecture
Teams that need senior technical leadership without a full-time CTO
Businesses that burned through junior dev shops and need reliability

Scope of Work

What an Engineering Partnership Includes

Feature Delivery

Consistent sprint-by-sprint delivery against a shared roadmap. No surprises, no missed milestones.

Technical Health

Ongoing refactoring, dependency updates, technical debt triage. Your codebase improves while you ship.

Technical Leadership

Architecture decisions, technology selection, RFC reviews, and mentorship for your junior engineers.

Performance & Reliability

Response time monitoring, database optimization, capacity planning, and incident response.

Knowledge Transfer

We document as we go. You never become dependent on us - you always own the knowledge.

Security & Compliance

GDPR, SOC 2, penetration testing support, dependency vulnerability management.

Engagement Options

Retainer Structures

All engagements are monthly retainers. Budgets below are approximate at a blended $40/hour planning rate and include engineering coordination. This is not an outstaff model or a dedicated developer seat. No long-term contracts.

Engineering Partner

~80 hrs/month

~$3.2K/month

Best for: Growing products needing consistent senior delivery

  • Dedicated senior engineer
  • 2 sprints per month
  • Weekly progress reports
  • Technical debt tracking
  • Slack access during business hours
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Most Common

Full Engineering Team

~200 hrs/month

~$8K/month

Best for: Products in active growth requiring full team capacity

  • 2-4 senior engineers
  • Named technical lead
  • Architecture ownership
  • Monthly roadmap reviews
  • Priority incident response
  • Quarterly tech health report
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Technical Leadership

~40 hrs/month

~$1.6K/month

Best for: CTOs who need senior leverage without full delivery

  • Senior tech lead on retainer
  • Architecture reviews
  • Code & PR review
  • Tech debt advisory
  • Vendor assessment
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"DilyaSoft became our engineering department for three years. They delivered every quarter, kept our technical debt under control, and gave us honest assessments even when we didn't want to hear them."

CEO, Automotive Software Company

3-year engagement · 6 major releases

Your Product Deserves Engineering It Can Rely On

Engagements start with a 4-week onboarding to understand your codebase, your team, and your roadmap before we commit to a structure.

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