Build your dedicated software development team in Bangalore

A dedicated software development team is a group of engineers from a partner organisation who work exclusively for your company and product. They don’t work on multiple client projects at one time, but instead act as a fully integrated extension of your existing team. In contrast, traditional outsourcing teams often work on multiple projects at once and employees are often relocated when their skills are needed. By working with the same developers, you retain knowledge and collaborate more easily, leading to faster delivery, which compounds over time.

Traditional outsourcing works on a deliverable basis. Rather than providing employees for you to work with, they provide the final deliverable according to the terms of your agreement. This means the team often changes during the project and they may work for multiple clients at once. This type of arrangement is responsible for many of the negative perceptions around quality and communication that people have regarding offshore teams. A dedicated team is like working with an extension of your company at home, just with The Scalers handling the hiring, HR, and engagement in India.

It means your offshore team joins your standups, uses the same tools, follows the same processes, and you set their workload. There’s no middleman between you and your team translating your requirements, but a seamless integration. The biggest difference between your in-house and offshore teams is the working hours, which is easily addressed by ensuring meetings happen during overlap hours.

Honestly, it depends on the size and complexity of your product. Most of our partners start with a lean team of three or four senior developers to establish the foundation and culture of the team. Once these developers are in place, the initial hires can onboard additional developers if needed. Unlike other offshoring providers, who build large offshore centres to develop products, we focus on find more senior profiles with the right culture and business understanding. With AI tools, these engineers can outperform larger teams substantially.

For a typical product, It usually takes three to four weeks to find the initial candidate pool and then an additional two to four weeks to actually onboard the engineers. For more specialist skills this can take longer due to the difficulty in finding sufficient candidates and negotiating early termination of notice periods. Our partners usually see new employees take between three to six months to get up to full speed on a legacy product, but during that time they are making significant contributions.

Our 7-step recruitment process includes specific steps to vet for technical skills, coding knowledge, the ability to effectively leverage AI, and English proficiency. We adapt these tests based on the roles and tech stacks our partners need and can implement their own internal vetting processes. This process means that our partners only ever see quality candidates when they have the final say. In the rare event that a candidate is onboarded and fails to meet expectations, we implement a Professional Development Plan and, when necessary, will replace the employee.

As your offshore team is a dedicated team, working in your systems and processes, you can communicate exactly as you would with an employee at home. And thanks to vetting for soft skills, cultural fit and English abilities, plus Bangalore’s rich tech scene with hundreds of global companies operating here, you don’t have to worry about navigating cultural differences any more than you would in London, Berlin, or New York.

It rarely happens as we have a 90% engineer retention rate, thanks to our engagement efforts driven by our Chief Happiness Officers. However, there are occasions where an employee isn’t the right fit and they, or the partner, may choose to end the cooperation. In these situations, we work on finding a replacement straight away, leveraging our established recruitment pool. Often, we have a set of potential candidates waiting in the wings, and so there can be zero or minimal disruption.