What is Lyra - For our clients

When a startup closes a raise, the clock starts immediately. Investors, the market, competitors. Everyone's watching. But the first thing most founders run into isn't a product problem. It's a hiring one.

Recruiting an excellent senior engineer takes anywhere up to 4 to 12 months. That's 4 to 12 months of momentum bleeding out, lost sprints, delayed launches, a founding team spending more time on job boards than on their product. The cost of waiting is expensive, and most startups feel it right after their best fundraising moment.

That's the gap Lyra was built to fill. And we can fill it as early as the same day.

We are not an agency. We are your engineers.

Lyra engineers embeds directly into your team. We sit in your Slack, your codebase, your standups from day one. We operate the way a founding engineer would, because that is exactly how we think about the role. That means we suggest improvements, discover and solve problems, and deeply engrain ourselves in the industry of your startup.

Since 2022 we have worked with 50+ startups across Silicon Valley, many of them backed by YC, a16z, and some of the most respected names in venture.

Lyra feels less like a vendor and more like an extension of our team. They bring world-class engineering at the breakneck pace needed for a venture-backed AI startup.

• Chirag Kulkarni, Co-Founder @ Hobbes

Lyra stepped up to help us accelerate in the lead-up to the launch of Alloy. They jumped in within days, ship fast with high quality, and are incredibly responsive. Highly recommend.

• Simon Kubica, Founder & CEO @ Alloy

Who we are

Lyra is a team of some of the most talented engineers in Australia. Our applicant pool is already pre-vetted, and fewer than 3% make it through. Every engineer goes through rigorous training before they ever touch a client codebase, and we hold them to the highest bar at every stage. The engineers that make it are the ones who can pick up a codebase, get context, and ship without hand-holding.

Every Lyra engineer works AI-natively, using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex as part of how they build, not as an afterthought. It means they move faster, write cleaner code, and deliver more in less time.

What keeps the quality consistent is the environment we have built. Lyra engineers work alongside a dense network of exceptional peers, and that raises the standard on its own. The best engineers want to be around other great engineers, and that is what Lyra is. The culture creates a pull that attracts talent, keeps it sharp, and makes the quality self-sustaining. When you bring a Lyra engineer onto your team, you are not just getting one person. You are tapping into that.

For teams that are already established, we unlock your most senior people.

There's a second problem that hits slightly later. Your founding engineers are good. Really good. But the most expensive brain in your company is spending most of its time writing code that any strong engineer could ship. The architecture decisions, the product bets, the hard technical calls. Those get squeezed into whatever's left.

Lyra sits underneath your senior team. They handle the execution. Your best engineers get their time back.

Lyra has been instrumental in helping us deliver product. Their engineers are able to hit the ground running and ship at a high velocity with high quality.

• Nirmal Krishnan, Founder @ Chakra Labs

With Lyra, we're able to flex based on demand and tap into exceptional engineering talent without having to worry about managing full-time employees.

• Jeffrey Li, Co-Founder @ Paraform

For founders without an engineering team, we become one.

Not every founder comes with a technical co-founder or an existing team. Some of the best ideas come from people who know exactly what they want to build but need someone else to build it.

For those founders, Lyra is not just additional capacity. We are the engineering team. We own the build end to end, keep you in the loop, and move as fast as a founding engineer would.

Lyra understood the ask and delivered on time. Communication was lock-step and played a huge role in feature pivots.

• Barry Lai, Head of Creative @ 88rising

Lyra has been a game changer for my business. They brought my vision to life. I couldn't be more impressed with their leadership, communication with their customers and their results

• Cody Kollman, Founder @ Kollman

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Zero risk to get started

As soon as you sign, we place an engineer in your team. If you are not happy with their work within the first week, we offer a full refund. No questions asked.

We are confident enough in our engineers to put that in writing.

Commonly asked questions

Work with us

If you are a founder who just raised and needs to start building, or a team that needs to move faster without the overhead of hiring, we would love to talk.

Book a time with us here!