Lyra Early Career Partnership is a one-month engagement built on a simple engagement, founders get access to Lyra's up-and-coming engineering talent at a massively discounted rate, and in return, we get to properly onboard our newest engineers through real client work with real stakes. You take a chance on a fresh vetted Lyra hire, and we make it worth your while.
Tell us what you need (stack, problem, timeline), and we’ll review it together first to confirm we’re a good fit. Once we align on what success looks like, we’ll match you with an engineer who can drop into your codebase within a day. They work as part of your team: in your Slack, your standups, your GitHub.
After one month, the engagement ends cleanly. If you want to keep them, we move to a standard Lyra rate. If you’re not happy with the engineer after a week of engagement, we’ll fully refund you.
Early career engineers, fresh to Lyra. They've cleared the same bar as everyone else on our team, the difference is this is their first client placement with us, which is why the rate is lower.
Fewer than 3% of applicants make it through our process. We've screened over 2,400 professional candidates to build a team of 60 engineers. Every one of them goes through:
You get a Lyra-vetted engineer at a below-market introductory rate, with Lyra handling everything on the operational side. Specifically:
This engagement works best when you have a senior engineer or technical co-founder on your team, we want our engineers learning from strong technical mentorship, not working in a vacuum and building an MVP. A few other things to note:
This works best for founders who already have strong technical direction, you know what needs to be built, and you need talented engineering muscle to push through them. Think crunch periods, fundraise sprints, or bridging the gap while your hiring pipeline catches up. Or just experimenting with new feature production when you didn’t have time before.
Or reach out directly to Nam at nam@lyratechnologies.com.au
