Engineering cover · For teams
Senior engineers on call for the people building your software.
More of your software is being built by the people closest to the problem: operations, finance, marketing, product. Engineering cover puts senior engineers alongside them, on a monthly subscription that is easier to approve than a hire and adds nothing to your headcount.
Who it's for
Asked to build something outside your day job
You work in operations, finance, marketing, or elsewhere in the business, and you have been asked to build a tool, an automation, or an internal app. You get a senior engineer to ask, reviews of what you make, and confidence that it will not embarrass you or the company.
Your team ships tools and nobody senior has looked
Your people are building in Power Apps, Airtable, Zapier, or with AI coding tools, and the business now depends on some of it. Cover gives them somewhere to go before they get stuck, and gives you a monthly picture of what exists and what is risky.
The business builds faster than IT can review
You cannot staff every internal tool, and you do not want to be the bottleneck or the department that says no. Cover puts senior engineers alongside the business teams, so things get built well and nothing ships unseen.
Why a subscription
Bought as a service, so it actually gets approved.
A service, not a hire
A fixed monthly fee on a purchase order. No recruitment, no contractor onboarding, none of the employment-status questions that come with engaging an individual.
Nothing on your headcount
Senior engineering capacity without a role to justify, a desk to find, or a notice period to manage.
Easier to approve
A subscription that can be cancelled any time is a very different conversation with finance than a hire or a six-month contract.
Scales with the work
Move between tiers as the number of people building changes. Pause when a project ends.
How you reach us
Four ways in. Each with a cadence, none of them 9 to 5.
Office hours
Fixed, recurring live video clinics. Anyone covered drops in, shares a screen, and gets unblocked or pairs for ten minutes. Recorded and shared with the team, so the answers compound.
Team: one hour a week · Department: twoThe channel, show and tell first
A shared Slack or Teams channel. Post a two-minute screen recording of the problem and we reply with one by the next working day. Nobody types out what they could show.
Next working dayBookable sessions
Thirty-minute one-to-one pairing or design sessions, booked from a calendar link, for when a problem needs more than office hours.
Team: four a month · Department: tenThe review queue
Submit anything for review: a repo, an app, an automation, a flow. We tell you what is fine, what is fragile, and what to fix first, security and data handling included.
Team: one in progress · Department: two · Three working daysAlso included
A named lead engineer
Someone who knows your systems and your people, staffed and covered by Mayker.
A monthly build review
An inventory of what the team has built, what data it touches, who depends on it, and a risk rating. Most companies have never seen this list.
Standards for the team
A short, practical guide: how we host, where data lives, what to never do. Written for your tools and your people.
A quarterly summary
For whoever signed it off. What was built, what was caught, what was avoided. Renewal should be an easy decision.
An urgent line
Production broken or data at risk? Same working day acknowledgement, UK business hours. Department and above.
Pause any time
Between projects, pause and keep your place. Nobody is obliged to keep going, and that is the point.
What it is not
The line is the product.
Engineering cover is useful because it is bounded. The same boundaries are what make it a service your company buys, not a person it engages.
Not a seat on your team
We are not in your standups, your Jira, or your org chart.
Not on demand
Office hours and booked sessions, not "ping me whenever". The cadence is what makes it work.
Not out of hours
UK business hours. If you need 24/7, you need something else and we will say so.
Not us building it for you
We unblock, review, pair and advise. Your people build. When something needs building properly, that is a scoped project with its own statement of work.
Not one person
A named lead, but Mayker staffs the service and can bring in or swap engineers as the work needs.
Who you'll work with
Available now.
Mayker is a small, senior team plus a network of specialists we have worked with for years. Every engagement is led by one of us and stays with them. This is who has capacity right now.
Robin Hayward
Twenty years building software: iOS since the App Store opened, now AI systems and the products around them. Startups, scale-ups and multinationals across sport, fintech and commerce.
A few places this quarter
Need a specialism you do not see here? Security, data, design, mobile, a particular platform. We bring in the right person from our network and stay accountable for the work: same price, same terms, one point of contact.
How it works
Intro call
What your teams are building, with what, and what worries you.
Onboarding session
We meet the team, see what exists, and set up the channel and the first review.
Cover starts
Office hours in the diary, the channel open, and the first monthly build review within thirty days.
We take on a limited number of teams each quarter so response times hold.
When something needs building properly
Some of what your teams make will outgrow them. When it does, it flows straight into project work with engineers who already know it, at member rates.