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Hire world-class engineers, for 1/2 the cost.

Playbooks from 70+ VC-backed launches. 3 IPOs.

  • LLMs & AI Agents — Done Right
  • Blockchain You Can Actually Trust
  • IoT at Scale, Without the Pain
  • Fixing the Vibe Code

  • Pura
  • Bird
  • Puzzle
  • Triangle
  • Well Point
  • Rain
  • Paratus Health
  • ChargeFuze
  • Reviva
  • VoiceERP
  • PhaseLaw
  • Resiquant
  • SFOX
  • Veraset
  • Agora
  • Calvis
  • Camber
  • ClimateAI
  • Conversant
  • Daxe
  • DealOps
  • Exia Labs
  • JD Power
  • MCS
  • Mobolize
  • Nine Suns
  • Onlook
  • Puzzzle
  • Rapattoni
  • Regimen
  • Sidecar
  • Sky
  • Stack
  • Ursa
  • Volta
  • ZipRecruiter

We work with founders backed by YC, a16z, BlingCap, Pear VC and leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Uber, Amazon, Stanford, Yale, and MIT.

  • LangChain
  • AWS
  • ChatGPT
  • React
  • Hugging Face
  • Apple
  • Kotlin
  • Anthropic
  • Gemini
  • Microsoft Azure
“Honestly, I don’t know what Spartan is feeding their engineers, but they’re ridiculously good and stupid fast - specs today, in prod tomorrow, lol!”
Asa Downs — Principal Software Engineer

How We Work

Coffee chat
MVP is live
Team is up to speed

Engineering Practices

Async standups – Slack daily updates
Agile method – Scrum or Kanban
PRDs & RFCs – align fast, then build
Code reviews – quality, every PR

Delivery Pipeline

Continuous Deployment
Ship features to both dev/prod multiple times a week
Automated Testing
CI checks, integration & regression coverage
Monitoring
Real-time metrics, alerts before issues hit users

Reliability & Support

On-call rotation – P0/P1 alerts, rollback if needed
Post-mortem – RCA, no blame
Feature flags – safe rollouts, instant fallbacks

We Build. You Raise.

~$116M COMBINED IN FUNDING

DON'T TRUST OUR WORD

  • Jane JeongJane Jeong
    Jane Jeong
    • Co-founder & CTO @ REVIVA
    • former software engineer @ zoom & aws
    Our company was in a unique situation, with an established codebase and a lot of internal knowledge. The engineers we worked with from Spartan adapted quickly to our code and subject matter and exceeded my expectations with their highly organized processes and passion for their craft. The onboarding process was tailored to our needs, and Spartan's strong, internal engineering community helped alleviate my concerns about not being able to provide enough resources for a remote workplace. I’m proud to call our Spartan engineers part of our team.
  • Francisco GalvisFrancisco Galvis
    Francisco Galvis
    • CTO & Co-founder @ RESIQUANT
    • PhD Researcher, Stanford
    The Spartan team is amazing! We had a very challenging ask for them in terms of technical rigor with limited available time, and they delivered. Their process is clean, well documented, and visible, so I always know what the team is doing and how. I really enjoy working with our team to the point that I feel like they are also members of our company.
  • Vera KutsenkoVera Kutsenko
    Vera Kutsenko
    • FOUNDER & CEO @ ATRIX AI
    • former co-founder & cto, beehyve
    • former software engineer @ uber & facebook
    Highly recommend partnering with Spartan for your engineering and technical needs! They offer stellar talent across various areas and levels of expertise. Chan and his team go above and beyond in ensuring that your needs are met -- we appreciate their flexibility in helping us identify the right type of talent we need at what stage (Sometimes you don't know until you try!) as well as their flexibility in bringing onboard additional talent on a need basis (for ex: dev ops). They have strong SOPs and integration processes in place that make scaling up, down, and working with international teams easy and seamless. Would highly recommend it!
  • Charles NautCharles Naut
    Charles Naut
    • Founder & CTO @ Rain
    • former project manager @ microsoft
    • bs stanford
    Spartan has been an incredible partner for our mobile development efforts. Their team quickly understood our goals and consistently delivered high-quality code on time. We’ve been especially impressed by their responsiveness and ability to scale with our needs. They are a true extension of our team!
  • Asa DownsAsa Downs
    Asa Downs
    • principal software engineer @ heru
    • former sr. software engineer @ biolog inc & amazon studios
    Honestly, I don’t know what Spartan is feeding their engineers, but they’re ridiculously good and stupid fast. One day we give them specs, the next day it’s already running in prod. They somehow hit impossible deadlines, pivot on a dime, and still manage to explain what they’re doing in plain English. It’s like having a team of superheroes — minus the capes (though I wouldn’t be surprised if they had those too)
  • Justin BalthropJustin Balthrop
    Justin Balthrop
    • Co-founder & CTO @ Triangle
    • FORMER Co-founder @ Bird
    Spartan's founder, Chan, is one of the best engineers I've ever worked with—I used to joke that I wanted to figure out how to clone him. With Spartan, it feels like he's done exactly that. Their hiring bar is incredibly high, and the developers I've worked with are all at the same high level, consistently delivering outstanding work with impressive speed.
  • Travis Vander ZandenTravis Vander Zanden
    Travis Vander Zanden
    • Chairman & FOUNDER @ BIRD
    • former VP @ UBER
    • FORMER COO @ LYFT
    Having spent my entire career working with in-house teams, I was initially hesitant to explore a new approach for my AI startup. However, after just a month of collaborating with the Spartan team, I was thoroughly impressed by their efficiency, proactiveness, and the quality of their work. Their ability to consistently deliver top-notch software engineering at an impressive speed has exceeded my expectations.
  • George MelikaGeorge Melika
    George Melika
    • Founder @ SFOX
    • Co-Founder @ Volta
    Working with the Spartan team to build our product has been an incredible experience. Their expertise, dedication, and technical skills have exceeded our expectations. They are able to take loosely defined requirements and do the necessary market research to design a fantastic system that addresses all the main requirements exceeding even our expectations. I am also impressed by their speed and quality. They have been a fantastic partner, and we can't recommend them more.
  • Serj KazarSerj Kazar
    Serj Kazar
    • CO-FOUNDER & CTO @ exia labs
    • FORMER principal software engineer @ riot games
    • FORMER Engineering Manager @ bird
    In the fast-paced and constantly changing environment of a startup, the Spartan team has been indispensable. They build high-quality code at a fast pace and always keep us informed of what they are building and why. They are able to meet our tight deadlines, switch gears and products on a dime when needed, and do it all in a very async low-touch way. They can work independently when needed, or with clear guidance when needed, and they handle both styles with no problem.
  • Ryan FujiuRyan Fujiu
    Ryan Fujiu
    • SVP Product & Design @ Super.com
    • Former ceo @ liquidity financial
    • FORMER head @ uber
    After working with in-house teams my whole career, I hired development agencies for my Fintech startup. Building a great, reliable product was a struggle until I came across Spartan. Initially, I was skeptical, but within just a month of collaborating with the Spartan team, I transferred all my remaining projects to them. Their capacity to deliver high-quality software engineering at a rapid pace is a rare find.
  • James WebbJames Webb
    James Webb
    • Founder & CTO @ Sidecar Data
    • BS Stanford
    As an early-stage startup, we are always racing against the clock. Spartan jump-started our product development. Instead of spending months recruiting an engineering team, we had a full team of excellent engineers off and running within days. Using Spartan allows us to control our costs and extend our runway, which means more time to find product-market fit. One of my concerns with using an offshore team was communication–as CTO I cannot afford to become disconnected with the product development. My Spartan team goes above and beyond to keep me in the loop, with ample documentation, daily standups, and code reviews. With Spartan, it feels like my engineers are part of my team.
  • Scott RushfortScott Rushfort
    Scott Rushfort
    • cto @ pura
    • FORMER CVO @ bird
    Spartan Is A Remarkable Team with Unmatched Expertise Having worked on multiple projects with Spartan across multiple companies, I am confident to say they are one of the best firms you can ask for. They ramp up quickly and add value every time. Their leadership has decades of experience and has seen it all!
  • Pablo Bermudez-CanetePablo Bermudez-Canete
    Pablo Bermudez-Canete
    • founder & CEO @ Paratus Health
    • bs stanford
    Using Spartan helped us double our engineering velocity right after Y Combinator. As a lean team moving fast, it gave us the talent and support we needed to scale without compromising on quality. It's like adding an excellent full-time employee in a matter of days.
  • Aristotle SocratesAristotle Socrates
    Aristotle Socrates
    • Founder & CEO @ Camber Cloud
    • former CTO @ pistil data
    The Spartan team is the best off-shore team I've worked with. Each developer is top notch, can cover for one another, is curious and responsive. Our first task was for them to perform a difficult migration, which they executed without any issues. The firm's CEO, Chan, is a good sounding board and very fair. Camber looks forward to a close, fruitful partnership with Spartan into the future.
  • Rey MendozaRey Mendoza
    Rey Mendoza
    • Founder & CEO @ regimen
    • co-founder @ mad ruk
    Chan and the Spartan team are hands down the best engineering team I've ever worked with. Their organization, thorough research, intuition, and work ethic are truly exceptional.
  • Cody ZhangCody Zhang
    Cody Zhang
    • founder & angel investor @ cz
    • former PRODUCT & ENGINEERING LEAD @ AGORA
    I've gone through several dev agencies that have all disappointed me until I found Spartan. I was skeptical at first, but within a month of working with the Spartan team, I migrated the rest of my projects over to them. Their ability to execute high-quality software engineering at a fast speed is hard to find!
  • Aaron RutledgeAaron Rutledge
    Aaron Rutledge
    • Founder & CEO @ VoiceNow
    • FORMER Game Design / Game UX / Game Audio -
    • Formerly Respawn, Riot, Treyarch
    The Spartan team was exactly what we needed to get from a handful of sketches and figma designs to a working prototype on device and in hand. They work efficiently, have solid default recommendations for how to get work done quickly and still plan for the future. We may be early stage, but every bit matters when trying to prove out our concept and sell our vision to the right people.
  • Georges CasassoviciGeorges Casassovici
    Georges Casassovici
    • Founder @ Novoflow (YC X25)
    I couldn't recommend Spartan more if your startup is building something big. As a first time founder, Chan's team has been the saving grace to turning our problem roadmap into core product implementation. The framework, the talent, and the proactiveness is something truly unique here.
  • Ethan BoyerEthan Boyer
    Ethan Boyer
    • Co-founder & CTO @ Semble AI
    • bs stanford
    Chan and the Spartan team are incredible! They're fast, highly capable, and truly invested in our success. Their engineers have delivered high-quality work and communicated clearly throughout. I strongly recommend Chan and Spartan to any founder looking for reliable execution and a team that feels like an extension of your own.
  • Brendan KimBrendan Kim
    Brendan Kim
    • Co-founder & COO @ Fig AI
    • MBA Stanford
    Chan has been a steadfast partner, supporter, and engineering advisor as we've built our product and launched it with our first customers. He's consistent, driven, and communicative and I'm lucky to count him as a partner!

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