The engineering team you don't have to hire.
A managed engineering company in Los Angeles. Our engineers, QA specialists, and technical leads work as full embedded teams inside our partners' businesses.
What We Do
SWARECO is a managed engineering company. We build, run, and grow the software behind your product... handling everything from team structure and architecture to development, QA, and long-term delivery.
Most companies come to us because they need software built but don't want to hire and manage engineers themselves.
The unit we deliver is a function, not a headcount. You are not hiring two developers from us... you are handing over the part of the business that builds and maintains the software.
We are not a staffing firm that places people and steps back, and not a dev shop that ships a project and closes the contract. Every engagement is a long-term retainer with a team that stays.
How We Actually Work
We start every engagement the same way... by learning the business, not just the brief. Before any architecture decision or sprint plan, we need to understand what you are building, why it matters, and what success looks like for you.
What We Can Take On
We work with companies at every stage of building:
- Founders who have an idea and need a technical partner to build it from scratch
- Operators who need to automate or replace the manual processes their business runs on
- Companies with existing products that need more engineering capacity or better structure
- Teams with a codebase that has outgrown its original architecture and needs to be rebuilt properly
Who you are actually working with
SWARECO is led by founder Orr Yakobi, who works as a hands-on fractional CTO across our engagements rather than handing accounts to an account manager. Architecture decisions, team composition, and delivery all run through the same person who scoped the work.
Most of our partners were early-stage when we started with them, and we built their engineering from the ground up. Most of those engagements are still running today. That is the model we are built for: assemble the team, take ownership of the system, and keep building alongside the business as it grows.
What We Stand For
We listen before we build. Understanding the business problem behind a technical request is what separates useful software from software that technically works but solves the wrong thing.
Empathetic
We listen before we build. Understanding the business problem behind a technical request is what separates useful software from software that technically works but solves the wrong thing.
Brave
We push back when we need to. If a proposed approach will create problems at scale, we say so. If a decision is going to slow the product down, we name it. Honesty is part of the job.
Accountable
We own what we commit to. Not just the tasks on a sprint board... the outcomes. If something goes wrong, we fix it. If a direction needs to change, we say it early and clearly.
AI-Driven Innovation
We build with modern tools, including AI-assisted development workflows. We apply them where they make our engineering better... faster reviews, tighter QA, cleaner documentation. We do not use them to cut corners
Principled
We work with integrity. That means transparent communication, honest scoping, and long-term thinking in every engagement. We would rather tell you something you don't want to hear early than deliver something that doesn't hold up later.
We build the engineering. You build the business.
If you are trying to figure out whether SWARECO is the right fit for what you are building, the best way to find out is to talk. Tell us what you have. We will be direct about what we can do and how we would approach it.