PaulStaffing partners with US and European technology companies to stand up high-quality engineering operations in Lithuania, India, and the United States — recruited, contracted, and managed end-to-end. Direct relationships. Transparent pricing. Intentionally lean.
Most companies looking to expand engineering capacity abroad have two options: hire a staffing agency that delivers strangers at 80–100% markup, or build their own offshore entity, a multi-year commitment with significant legal and HR complexity.
PaulStaffing offers a third path. We recruit, contract, and operationally manage engineering talent directly — across Lithuania, India, and the United States — transparently and at a fraction of agency cost. You get the team without the overhead, the relationships without the intermediaries, and the flexibility to scale up, scale down, or eventually absorb the team in-house.
Engagements are run by Ross Paul, former CTO of 1stdibs (Series A through Nasdaq IPO) and Phillips Auctioneers. Not an account team. Not a layer of project managers. The person responsible for your engagement is the person you talk to.
We invoice at engineer cost plus a 30% service markup — substantially below the 80–100% markup typical of staff augmentation agencies. You see what engineers are paid. You see what we charge. Cost-plus, end to end.
Engineers contract directly with PaulStaffing, not through layered intermediaries. They know who they work for. They know who they support. This is why retention rates exceed industry benchmarks.
Our Lithuanian operations are led full-time by a senior HR and operations leader in Vilnius. In Bangalore, we work with an established technical lead and HR partner. Every region has people who live there, know the market, and own the outcome.
“The worst outcome for any engineering team is being staffed quickly with the wrong people. The right outcome is being staffed with the right people in the right window.”— Ross Paul, Founder
Our primary engineering hub. Deep ties to the Vinted-fueled marketplace talent ecosystem, with a senior operations leader on the ground full-time. Strong fit for marketplace, fintech, and consumer engineering work.
Established technical lead and HR partner on the ground. Suited for back-end engineering, QA, DevOps, and roles where deep technical specialization at scale is the priority.
US recruiting capacity through established contract recruiting partnerships. Best for senior engineering hires, leadership placements, and stack-specific roles where US-based talent is required.
Ross personally established the Lithuanian engineering operation for 1stdibs, placing 60+ engineers across the team's history and growing it into a core engineering hub that built marketplace, search, and personalization infrastructure for what became a NASDAQ-listed company with over $500M in annual revenue.
The retention rates speak to the model: 48+ month average engineer tenure at a time when 18-month average tenure is industry standard for offshore engineering teams. Engineers stayed because they were treated like engineers, not contractors.
Ross has also built and managed engineering operations in Bangalore, placing 20+ engineers across the same period — and maintains active technical and HR relationships in both regions today.