How Supernus Staffs a Regulated .NET Team in Mexico

The company

Supernus Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Maryland.

The problem this engagement solves

A regulated business adding engineering capacity has a different first question from everyone else. It is not how fast and it is not how cheap. It is: who exactly is this person, what has been verified about them, what have they signed, and who owns what they write.

Most staffing conversations reach those questions in week three, after the shortlist. In a regulated environment they are the gate, not the follow-up, and a vendor who cannot answer them precisely, in writing, before sourcing starts is not a candidate for the work.

What CodersLink did

Supernus engaged CodersLink for Staff Augmentation: a small, deliberately narrow scope of C#/.NET full-stack engineering, embedded into Supernus's own engineering function on a per-engineer contract.

Three roles have been filled over the life of the engagement. The scope was defined as three named roles against their own criteria rather than as a block of capacity.

The controls are the part worth reading, and they are the same on every CodersLink engagement:

• Every engineer signs an NDA before starting.
• Background verification and structured reference checks are completed and archived before contract signing, and the findings are shared with the client.
• 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. Not work-made-for-hire. That construction is not enforceable as written across Mexican contractor law, and using it would leave the client holding an assignment that does not assign.
• Custom client NDAs and IP addenda are routed into the engineer's own contract.
• The client provisions and controls all system and repository access.

We will also complete your security questionnaire. What we will not do is claim a certification we do not hold: CodersLink does not currently hold SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001, and no page of ours will say otherwise.

Results

Roles supported

C#/.NET Full Stack Engineer

Who owns the IP, and who signs the NDA?

Every CodersLink engineer signs an NDA before starting, and everything they create for the client's project is assigned to the client by present assignment: worldwide, perpetual, signed inside the engineer's service agreement before day one. Background verification and reference checks are completed and archived before the contract is signed, and the findings go to the client.

That answer does not change by client, by industry or by deal size. It is the same on a three-person engagement as on a fifty-person one, which is the only version of it that is worth anything to a compliance team.

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 engineers inside a regulated environment? Book a call. We will walk through vetting, background verification, NDAs and IP assignment before we talk about headcount.