As seen on Y Combinator
Founding engineers,
while you hire.
Get a founding engineer's output without the months-long search or the equity grant. Start with one, scale as you raise.
75+
Client work
15+
YC Companies
70+
Head count
Frontend, CLI, billing and infrastructure, owned by one embedded engineer through a $13M Series A.
Paraform raised its Series A with the founding-engineer seat filled entirely by Lyra.
From 1 to 17 engineers across four funding rounds, shipping against the same review bar as the in-house team.
API v1, webhooks and backend refactors in about six weeks, then a clean handoff when the team hired in-house.
We match on your stack, and you meet the engineer on an intro call before anything starts.
They join your Slack, codebase and standups. Not happy with the first week? Lyra refunds it in full.
Add engineers as the roadmap grows. Clients have scaled between one and ten engineers on one engagement.
In-house, expect a 4 to 12 month search, a senior salary and a real equity grant. Through Lyra, an engineer who works like a founding engineer can start in days.
No. Lyra engineers are full-time Lyra employees, so there is no equity grant and no single-hire risk.
Lyra hands over cleanly or keeps scaling around your senior hires. Lucent handed off when it hired in-house, and Paraform grew from 1 to 17 Lyra engineers.
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