How Minted Staffed 10 Product and Engineering Roles in Mexico

The company

Minted is a California consumer commerce and design company of roughly 500 people, selling stationery, art and home decor designed by a marketplace of independent artists.

The problem this engagement solves

A staffing arrangement that supplies only engineers quietly transfers a job to the client.

Someone in the client's own time zone has to translate priorities, unblock decisions and hold the roadmap for the new team. That work is real and expensive, and it is usually invisible until the team has been running for a while and the client's own product managers are underwater. The capacity was added; the coordination cost was moved rather than removed.

The alternative is to staff the coordination layer inside the same team, which most vendors do not sell, because product management is harder to source than another engineer.

What CodersLink did

Minted engaged CodersLink for Staff Augmentation: senior Mexican professionals vetted to the Top 1% Standard, embedded into Minted's own product organization on a per-professional contract.

Ten roles have been filled over the life of the engagement, across three disciplines: senior front-end engineering, senior back-end engineering and product management. Each was scoped with its own criteria and its own technical standard, and every role went through the same five-layer vetting against the same 75-point gate.

Results

Roles supported

Sr Front End Engineer · Sr Back End Engineer · Product Manager

Can you staff product managers as well as engineers?

Yes. Minted's Mexico team spans senior front-end engineering, senior back-end engineering and product management: ten roles across the three, so the coordination layer sits inside the team rather than on the client's side of it.

That is the difference between adding capacity and adding a capability. A team without product ownership pushes prioritization back to the client's own product managers, which is the cost that does not appear in the rate.

How every CodersLink Staff Augmentation engagement works

The same terms apply to this engagement and to every other.

• Who holds the contract. CodersLink holds the engineer's contract in Mexico, and the classification decision is ours to make and ours to carry.
• Who directs the work. The client. The client sets priorities and accepts the work; the engineer works to the client's roadmap and delivery standards.
• Who owns the output. Everything the engineer creates for the client's project is assigned to the client by present assignment, worldwide and perpetual, signed inside the engineer's service agreement before day one. Every engineer signs an NDA before starting.
• Vetting. Five layers against a 75-point gate (communication, soft skills, a live technical screen, background verification and references), applied the same way every time. Verification and references are completed and archived before contract signing, and the findings are shared with the client.
• Hours. 7–8 hours of daily overlap with US business hours.
• Replacements. Unlimited, free, for the life of the engagement: no cap, no tenure window, no fee. Sourcing restarts within one business day of your request, and three vetted profiles reach you within five business days for a standard role. We would rather tell you how it runs than let "unlimited" imply "instant."
• Pricing. A fixed monthly rate per engineer. We show you what sits inside that rate before you sign, and we never take a cut of the engineer's pay.

Adding a product capability rather than a set of hands? Book a call. We will scope the coordination layer alongside the engineering roles.