How Trade Technologies Staffs .NET, QA and Support in Mexico

The company

Trade Technologies is a Texas-based technology company working in trade documentation and supply-chain compliance.

The problem this engagement solves

Sustained capacity across a .NET stack, quality assurance and technical support is the least glamorous shape of engineering demand and one of the hardest to staff well.

It is too continuous for project contractors and too specialized to hire casually. It is also the shape where turnover costs the most, because a large part of what the person is worth is the years they have spent inside the system.

What CodersLink did

Trade Technologies engaged CodersLink for Staff Augmentation: senior Mexican engineers, vetted to the Top 1% Standard, embedded into the existing team on a per-engineer contract.

Sourcing ran from CodersLink's warm community pipeline rather than a cold search: the roles were filled from a community that had already been engaged and assessed. Every profile went through five-layer vetting against a 75-point gate, and Trade Technologies ran its own interviews and made its own hiring decisions on every role.

Over the life of the engagement, six roles have been filled across .NET full-stack engineering, QA and technical support.

Results

Roles supported

.NET Full Stack Engineer · QA Engineer · Technical Support

In the client's words

"Their developers are strong contributors to TradeTech product, helping us make money and save money on what other developers could have cost us. CodersLink's developers costs us around 30% less."

Ken Kolchier, CTO, Trade Technologies

Quoted in full and unedited, including the client's own phrasing.

How long can a nearshore staff augmentation engagement run?

For more than four years, in this case. Trade Technologies has filled six roles across .NET full-stack engineering, QA and technical support with CodersLink since 2022, and the engagement is active today.

That duration is the result worth reading here. There is no ramp number on this page. What it evidences is the other half of the question: whether the people who learn a trade-compliance codebase are still there in year four.

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.

Staffing a long-horizon system rather than a sprint? Book a call. We will classify each of your roles as standard, niche or scarce, and give you the delivery range that goes with each one, before there is a contract.