Build your offshore dedicated development team

A dedicated development team acts as a long-term R&D extension, handling core product development, enhancements, and maintenance. Unlike project outsourcing, this team is exclusively hired, fully integrated into your processes, and adopts your culture, ensuring consistent knowledge retention and deep domain expertise.

A dedicated development team typically focuses on your core product’s development and maintenance. Their responsibilities include:

• Core product development: Building new features and advancing your product roadmap.
• Maintenance and refactoring: Ensuring the long-term health, performance, and stability of your codebase.
• Quality assurance: Integrating rigorous testing and quality standards directly into the development cycle.

Choosing the right partner is critical. Look for a dedicated development team provider with a proven track record (check testimonials and case studies), deep recruitment expertise (especially in the location you choose), and a model that prioritises your team’s long-term integration and happiness. Crucially, ensure the cost model is fully transparent, covering salaries and operating expenses without hidden margins, and that they guarantee 100% IP ownership. If you find a partner who meets these criteria, you can expect quality results.

A dedicated development team is best hired when you are pursuing long-term, strategic growth and need a permanent, high-quality extension of your in-house R&D.

It is the ideal model when:

1. You have a continuous product roadmap requiring constant feature development and maintenance.
2. You need to scale rapidly with specialised talent that is difficult or expensive to hire locally.
3. You require full cultural integration of the remote team into your company’s processes and values.
4. You demand complete control, transparency, and the highest degree of IP security< for your core product.

If you are a startup looking to launch your MVP or you need a stock product with only occasional, minor tweaks, then outsourcing will be a better value for you.

The cost of hiring a dedicated development team varies depending on the size of the team, the tech stack, the location, and the exact profiles you are hiring. Hiring a team of three web developers will be a lot cheaper than a 10-person team with a mix of Web, CRM, and ML profiles. However, when working with us you can expect to see savings between 30-60% on each role and unlike traditional outsourcing provides, there’s no hidden costs but one simple, all-inclusive fee per employee. To get an exact estimate, get in touch and will give you a quote based on your specific needs.

A dedicated development team is a long-term strategy to leverage global talent to aid R&D. When done right, it is the most cost-effective, long-term way to scale your development due to the combination of quality and cost savings. It also provides deep integration into the company, leading to more effective development. However, outsourcing has a faster spin-up time, due to using resources from a bench, and is more cost-effective for short, fixed-term projects. In-house development also gives greater geographical proximity when employees work onsite, providing greater visibility and useful for more handson management.

Yes, your team can scale the same as any development team you would build at home. Whether you simply want more developers to accelerate delivery or bring a new product to market, or if you want to add specific skills, we can find and hire top-performing individuals to join your team.

You can start with a team as small as three developers. We recommend focusing on a few, more senior profiles first, as they are quicker to onboard, can prove the quality of the talent pool, and can help onboard more junior profiles later.

Many of our partners are concerned about time zone differences before they join us, but soon discover that they can be an advantage. Obviously, the exact way you need to manage these differences depends on your location and the size of the difference. For UK and European companies, most Indian employees will start an hour later, reducing the time zone difference and providing a half-day crossover. For Australian companies, the Indian team starts an hour earlier for the same effect. For US companies, the amount of crossover is reduced, but once developers are up to speed, this provides more hours for focusing on delivery in the offshore hub.

First, we take the time to get to know what your exact requirements are and then make recommendations based on the local talent market conditions (such as whether it’s better to get a couple of full-stack developers or split into frontend and backend developers). Then, we follow a proven 7-step recruitment process to find the best tech and data talent exclusively for you from Bangalore’s world-class pool. This rigorous process includes testing candidates against your specific requirements to ensure technical excellence and cultural fit. Once hired, we handle all the on-the-ground setup, including workspace, HR, payroll, and compliance, allowing you to focus solely on managing your team’s delivery.

You own all the intellectual property your team produces, no ifs, no buts. It’s covered in our Master Service Agreement (MSA), and in the contracts your new employees will sign. Plus, they work in your systems and under your security arrangement so you’ll have any and all code in your hands at all times.

Typically, a dedicated development team follows a SCRUM framework tailored to your product goals. A standard structure includes:

• Tech Lead / Product Lead: Sets technical direction, defines architecture, and aligns development with your business objectives.
• Senior Engineers: Drive core development, ensure code quality, and mentor team members.
• Mid-level & Junior Developers: Implement features, support ongoing maintenance, and accelerate roadmap delivery.
• QA Engineers: Integrate manual and automated testing into the development lifecycle to ensure high software quality.
• Specialised Roles (as needed): DevOps engineers, UI/UX designers, Business Analysts, or Scrum Masters to support infrastructure, design, and operational management.

However, we’ve seen more companies adopting more streamlined, lean team structures focused on more senior and specialised profiles and fewer lower-level roles.

A team extension is multiple individuals hired offshore who embed within existing development teams in your organisation. In contrast, a dedicated team is a complete development team that is hired offshore but then works alongside your other development teams. In both cases, we handle the legal and HR side of things while you set the workload and manage your team directly.