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Fractional AWS team.

A senior AWS architect or engineer, embedded with your team 1–3 days a week.

Fractional AWS team

Hiring a senior AWS engineer in Utah takes 6–9 months — if you land one at all, with tech unemployment under 2%. Rent one instead. We embed a senior, AWS-certified, US-based architect or engineer with your team on a flat monthly retainer: in your standups, your repo, your AWS account. Month-to-month. The same engineers who shipped for Adobe, eBay, and Venafi — for a fraction of a full-time hire.

# stack
  • AWS Well-Architected
  • Lambda + API Gateway
  • Cognito
  • DynamoDB + Aurora
  • ECS Fargate
  • CDK / Terraform IaC
  • Amazon Bedrock + AgentCore
  • CloudWatch + cost guardrails
  • iOS · Android · Next.js
# deliverables
  • ✓The same senior engineer every week — never a rotating bench
  • ✓Embedded in your standups, your tracker, and your code review
  • ✓All work lands in your GitHub org and your AWS account
  • ✓Flat monthly invoice — no hourly billing, no scope-change surprises
  • ✓Month-to-month — scale up, down, or stop at the end of any cycle
  • ✓Hire them onto your payroll anytime — zero conversion fee

# capacity-tiers

Pick a capacity. Flat monthly.

Billed flat monthly, month-to-month. No hourly billing, no recruiting fee. Scale up, down, or stop at the end of any cycle.

Advisor
Fractional AWS Architect
$3,500/mo
~1 day / week

Architecture, Well-Architected reviews, cloud-cost audits, code review, and roadmap guidance. The senior voice in the room — without the senior salary.

Buildermost picked
Fractional Senior Engineer
$6,500/mo
~2 days / week

Hands-on-keyboard. Ships features in your repo every sprint, embedded in your standups. For teams that are one senior engineer short.

Lead
Architect + Senior Engineer
$9,500/mo
~3 days / week

Owns a workstream end to end — architects it, builds it, ships it. For a roadmap that needs a senior owner now, not in nine months.

# faq

The honest answers.

How is this different from Toptal or an Upwork contractor?+
A marketplace hands you a profile and a rate. We hand you a vetted senior engineer from the team that shipped for Adobe, eBay, and Venafi — backed by AppsTango, not a gig listing. The same engineer every week, embedded in your process, with an AWS-certified team behind them for escalation. If it isn't working, you end at the next cycle.
Will a part-time engineer actually have enough context?+
Yes — because it is the same engineer every week, in your standups, your repo, and your project tracker. Fractional means fewer days, not less continuity. Most context loss comes from rotating contractors and offshore handoffs; we have neither.
How is this different from a dedicated dev team?+
Scale. A dedicated team is three to six full-time engineers running your whole roadmap. The fractional engagement is one senior architect or engineer, one to three days a week, for a specific gap. Start fractional; graduate to a dedicated team when the roadmap outgrows it.
How fast can a fractional AWS engineer start?+
Most fractional engagements have an engineer in your standups within a week of the strategy call. No six-month hiring cycle, no recruiter, no relocation package.
Where are AppsTango's fractional AWS engineers based?+
AppsTango is headquartered in Lehi, Utah, with senior engineers across Lehi, Salt Lake City, and San Diego. Every fractional architect and engineer is a US-based senior engineer with production experience at companies like Adobe, eBay, and Venafi — no offshore, no junior pyramid. AWS-certified, available to embed with Utah and remote US teams.

# related-case-studies

Shipped like this, at scale.

Venafi case study
Venafi · SaaS / Machine-identity security

Machine-identity dashboard refresh

Rebuilt a core Venafi enterprise dashboard. Accessibility AA, Core Web Vitals to Lighthouse 98+, and a component system the in-house team now extends.

eBay case study
eBay · Marketplace

Seller-tooling mobile companion

A native iOS + Android companion app for high-volume sellers to manage listings, respond to messages, and track payouts from wherever they sourced inventory.

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