Nearshore, offshore and fixed-scope software development outsourcing
Software Development Outsourcing
Pick the model by the work, not by the label. Then get named engineers within five days.
Dedicatted provides software development outsourcing from Canada, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe in four models. Nearshore teams that work your hours, offshore teams at the lowest cost per engineer, staff augmentation for a gap in a squad, and fixed-scope delivery at a price agreed before it starts. One lead, one process and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls behind each.
- 4 models Nearshore, offshore, staff augmentation and fixed-scope delivery
- 5 days From the scoping call to a proposal with named engineers and a price
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AWS Premier Tier
Partnered with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud -
SOC 2 + ISO 27001
The same controls on outsourced teams as on our own delivery
What is software development outsourcing?
What is software development outsourcing?
Software development outsourcing is contracting a partner to design, build, test or run software instead of hiring the engineers yourself. The partner supplies the people, the management and the tooling. You keep the product decisions and the code.
What are the types of software development outsourcing?
By location there are onshore, nearshore and offshore. By model there are staff augmentation, a dedicated or managed team, and project-based delivery at a fixed price. Most companies combine two, a nearshore core and an offshore team, or augmentation now and a managed team later.
What does a software development outsourcing company do?
It proposes named engineers for your stack, runs them with a lead who reports to you, plugs into your tools and process, carries recruiting, management and compliance, and reports velocity, quality and cost so you can scale up or down.
Which model fits the work
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Nearshore team
Your product team ships weekly and needs daily overlap. Leads in Canada, engineers in or next to your time zone, live collaboration every day.
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Offshore team
A long-running, well-specified backlog and a tight budget. A dedicated team in Europe at the lowest cost per engineer, managed from Canada.
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Staff augmentation or fixed scope
A gap in one squad, or a defined deliverable with a deadline. Named engineers in two weeks, or a scope and price in writing before work starts.
Our software development outsourcing models
Three routes in. Each starts with a scoping call and a proposal within five days, and each runs under the same lead, process and security.
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Most common
Nearshore software development
For product teams that ship weekly
- Overlap
- Most of your working day
- Commitment
- Per engineer per month, 30 days notice
- Start
- Two weeks to the first engineer
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Offshore development services
For long-running, well-specified work
- Overlap
- A planned window each day
- Commitment
- One monthly rate per engineer
- Start
- Two to four weeks
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Fixed-scope delivery
For a defined deliverable with a deadline
- Overlap
- As the project needs
- Commitment
- The scope, priced before it starts
- Start
- After scope and price are agreed
Staff augmentation, managed team or project outsourcing
The three commercial shapes of software development outsourcing. The location, nearshore or offshore, is a separate choice.
- Staff augmentation Named engineers embedded in your squads
- Managed team A complete team with a lead accountable for the outcome
- Project delivery A defined scope at a fixed price
| Staff augmentation Named engineers embedded in your squads | Most common Managed team A complete team with a lead accountable for the outcome | Project delivery A defined scope at a fixed price | |
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| Who manages | You | Our lead, with you | We do, end to end |
| Commitment | Per engineer, 30 days notice | Per engineer, 30 days notice | The scope |
| Start | 2 weeks | 2-week pilot, then ramp | After scope and price are agreed |
| You provide | The backlog, the process and the day-to-day lead | The roadmap and a product owner | The requirement and acceptance criteria |
| We provide | Named engineers, recruiting, HR and compliance | A complete team, the lead, the process and the reporting | Delivery at a fixed price, QA and DevOps included |
| Best for | A gap in an existing team | A roadmap that needs a team, not hires | A deliverable with a deadline |
| Get a team proposal → |
Not sure? Say what the work is and when it has to ship. The scoping call ends with a recommendation.
Book a scoping callHow does software development outsourcing work?
How do companies use software development outsourcing?
To add capacity without a hiring cycle, to build a product or feature at a fixed price, to run a platform or operations function, and to get cloud, data and AI skills that are hard to hire locally.
What is the outsourcing process?
Scoping call, a proposal with named engineers and a price within five days, a two-week paid pilot at a fixed price, then ramp-up one interview per engineer and a quarterly review of velocity, quality and cost.
How do you choose the right outsourcing model?
By overlap, duration and specification. Daily overlap and weekly releases point to nearshore. A long, well-specified backlog and a tight budget point to offshore. A gap in one squad points to staff augmentation. A defined deliverable points to fixed scope.
How software development outsourcing works with us
From the first call to a team that ships. The first paid step has a fixed price, whichever model you pick.
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Day 1
Scoping call
Thirty minutes on your product, your stack and the gap. You leave with a written brief and a recommended model, nearshore, offshore, augmentation or fixed scope.
- Written brief and success criteria
- A recommended outsourcing model
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Days 2 to 5
Proposal
Named engineers with profiles, a lead, a price and a start date, with the security, onboarding and hand-off plan attached.
- Profiles, a lead and a price
- Security and onboarding plan
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Weeks 1 to 2, fixed price
Paid pilot
The team delivers a real slice of your backlog on your tools. You decide with evidence before any longer commitment.
- Working software from your backlog
- Velocity and quality report
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From week 3
Ramp and review
The team grows or reshapes as the work proves out. Velocity, quality and cost are reviewed with you every quarter.
- Ramp plan, one interview per person
- Quarterly review of velocity, quality and cost
One partner, three regions, four models
The commercial model changes. The lead, the process and the controls do not.
- 3 regions, Canada, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe
- 5 days from scoping call to a proposal with named engineers
- 2 weeks paid pilot at a fixed price before any commitment
- 30 days notice to scale down, no minimum term beyond the pilot
Every engineer works under the controls audited for our SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs, with a written offboarding when the engagement ends.
What are the benefits of software development outsourcing?
Why outsource software development?
Senior engineers in weeks rather than months, a cost you can plan, a partner that carries recruiting and management, and the option to scale the team with the roadmap instead of the hiring plan.
What are the risks of outsourcing, and how do you manage them?
Hand-off delays, quality drift and unclear ownership. We manage them with a lead in your time zone, written daily hand-offs, tests as the definition of done, code in your repositories from the first commit, and quarterly numbers.
How does outsourcing improve delivery?
By turning capacity into a variable, with named engineers, a monthly rate, a lead accountable for the outcome, and reviews that show whether the team is worth its cost.
Work our outsourced teams have delivered
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Outsourced development teams, roles and stacks we staff
Named senior engineers per role, on your stack. You interview every profile before the start.
Backend engineers
Services, APIs and integrations in the languages your platform already runs.
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Go
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Frontend and mobile engineers
Web and mobile interfaces built to your design system and release cadence.
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Android
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Cloud and DevOps engineers
Platforms, pipelines and environments as code on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
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Terraform
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Data engineers
Pipelines, warehouses and lakehouses that reconcile before cutover.
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Databricks
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AI and ML engineers
Generative AI, agents and models in production with guardrails.
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Hugging Face
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QA automation engineers
Test automation as the definition of done, inside your pipeline.
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k6
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Need a role that is not listed? Ask an engineering lead.
FAQ
Which outsourcing model should we start with?
Staff augmentation if your process works and needs hands. A managed team if you want throughput without hiring. Project delivery if the requirement is bounded. The scoping call ends with a recommendation, and you can switch models later.
Nearshore or offshore?
Nearshore if your team needs live overlap every day, offshore if the work is well specified and cost is the priority. Both run from the same management layer, see nearshore software development and offshore development services.
How much does software development outsourcing cost?
A monthly rate per engineer for teams and augmentation, all-in, or a fixed price for a defined scope. You get the number in the proposal, within five days of the scoping call.
How do you protect our IP and data?
Code lives in your repositories from the first commit, engineers work under your policies and our SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls, and every engineer gets a written offboarding when the engagement ends.
Can we interview and replace engineers?
Yes. One interview per engineer before they start, and a replacement within two weeks at any point.
What if we already have a team?
Then augmentation or a managed team plugs into it, on your tools, your ceremonies and your definition of done. We report into your leads and keep the hand-offs written.
How do you use AI in delivery?
Our engineers use AI at every stage, drafting code, tests and documentation, reviewing pull requests and profiling systems. Every result is verified by an engineer before it ships, and a person owns every release.
What questions should we ask when outsourcing software development?
Ask who manages the engineers day to day, who owns the code, how hand-offs are written, how fast an engineer can be replaced, what the notice period is, and which security controls apply. A software outsourcing company that answers all six in writing is one you can plan around.
Is IT outsourcing the same as software development outsourcing?
IT outsourcing is the wider term and covers infrastructure, support and operations as well as engineering. Software development outsourcing is the part that builds and changes software, through a dedicated development team, staff augmentation or project delivery.
Question not answered? Ask an engineering lead. Same-day reply on availability.
Software development outsourcing company for North America and Europe
Dedicatted is a software development outsourcing company with leadership in Canada and engineering teams in Eastern and Southern Europe. We provide nearshore software development, offshore development services, staff augmentation and fixed-scope delivery as part of our engineering services, for companies in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Software development outsourcing services
Dedicatted provides software development outsourcing services for product companies and enterprises, covering custom software development, web and mobile development, cloud and DevOps engineering, data engineering and AI, delivered by nearshore and offshore teams with a lead in the client’s time zone. We combine staff augmentation, managed teams and project delivery with the security controls of our SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs and the delivery method of an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner.
We support businesses with
- software development outsourcing from Canada, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe
- nearshore and offshore development teams
- IT staff augmentation with named senior engineers
- dedicated development teams and development centres
- fixed-scope software development projects
- cloud, DevOps, data and AI engineering capacity
A software outsourcing company for cloud, data and AI work
Most outsourcing partners staff web and mobile work. As a software outsourcing company with AWS, data and AI practices we also staff cloud platform, data engineering and machine learning roles, so one partner covers the product and the platform under it.
Dedicated development teams and IT outsourcing
A dedicated development team is the most common shape of outsourcing software development. The engineers work only for you, a lead is accountable for the outcome, and the team scales with 30 days notice. Where the need is wider IT outsourcing, our managed services practice runs the platform under an SLA.
Outsourcing software development without losing control
Control comes from ownership and visibility. Code lives in your repositories from the first commit, hand-offs are written every day, tests are the definition of done, and velocity, quality and cost are reviewed with you every quarter.
Get started with an engineering lead
Tell us what the work is, when it has to ship and the budget you have in mind. Our team responds within one business day with a recommended model and relevant profiles.
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