ISO 9001 certified since 2011. 250+ in-house engineers in India. 4 to 8 hour daily overlap with US, UK, and EU teams.
We're an India-headquartered engineering practice. Since 2011 we've staffed full-time, in-house software engineers onto enterprise teams in over 45 countries. Backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, QA, AI, the full stack. Our 5-stage technical assessment rejects 97% of applicants. The 3% who pass are the engineers we place on your team. Onboarding starts in 48 hours, and code lands in your repo by the end of week one.
Profiles tailored to your tech stack & timeline
Twelve role categories on the bench, every one staffed by full-time in-house engineers. If your gap doesn't fit a single card, we'll spin a small pod across two or three of them.
Node.js, Python, Java, Go, .NET. Microservices, event-driven systems, GraphQL, REST. Infra-aware backend that scales past the prototype.
Hire Node.js DevelopersReact, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Svelte. Core Web Vitals targets baked into the build. Accessibility-first markup, INP under 200ms.
Hire React DevelopersNative iOS (Swift, SwiftUI), native Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), cross-platform (React Native, Flutter). App Store and Play Store production experience.
Hire Mobile DevelopersOpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, Pinecone, LangGraph. RAG, multi-agent orchestration, eval harnesses. AI built for production loads, not demos.
Hire AI DevelopersAWS, Azure, GCP architects. Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Datadog. Observability and incident response built in from day one.
Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, JMeter, k6. QA embedded inside delivery squads, not bolted on at the end.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery. Schema design, query tuning, multi-billion-row analytics.
Multi-cloud and hybrid designs. AWS Well-Architected reviews, Azure Landing Zones, GCP organization policies. SOC 2 and HIPAA-ready cloud patterns.
Engineers who ship end-to-page features, from API to UI. Strong default for early-stage product builds where the team is small and ownership matters.
Solidity, Rust (Solana), Move (Aptos / Sui). Smart-contract audits, custodial integrations, on-chain analytics.
OWASP Top 10, SOC 2 audit prep, threat modelling, secrets management, IAM hardening. Pair with DevOps for compliance-bound builds.
8+ year leads who own architecture, code review, and multi-team delivery. Useful when your in-house lead is stretched and a phase needs senior judgement.
clients served
country delivery footprint
AI models deployed to production
client retention rate
years in business
From signed engagement letter to engineer in your standup, the typical timeline is 7 to 10 working days. We'll compress it if your need is urgent. We won't compress the vetting.
Day 0 · 30-min call
A senior engineer joins the discovery call, not a sales engineer. We scope the gap, confirm fit, and tell you if a single hire fixes it or if the right answer is a pod, a fractional specialist, or no hire at all. If we don’t think we’re the right fit, we say so.
Day 1 to 3 · 2-3 profiles
You get 2 or 3 pre-vetted engineer profiles, each with 5-stage assessment results, sample work, and reference contacts. Every engineer in the shortlist has cleared a live system-design conversation with one of our senior architects.
Day 4 to 7 · your call
You run your interview cycle. We facilitate scheduling and prep the engineer on your domain context. Optional: a 2-week paid discovery sprint if you’d rather validate engineering quality on real work before signing a longer engagement.
Day 8 to 10 · first standup
Contracting under your jurisdiction, mutual NDA, IP assignment, tooling onboarding. Engineer is in your standup, your repos, and your delivery cadence by day 10. We manage payroll, taxes, and benefits as the entity-of-record.
US fintech (Series C, anonymized)
“The ISO 9001 audit trail and HIPAA BAA were the reason our procurement team approved the engagement on first review. The fact that the engineering work was excellent was almost a bonus.”
US health system (anonymized)
“We needed two India-based React engineers on a tight Q1 deadline. ScalaCode had profiles to us in 48 hours and engineers in our repo by day 10. No 30-day vendor onboarding cycle.”
UK retail SaaS (anonymized)
“We hired through ScalaCode after two failed marketplace attempts. The senior engineer they placed was in our standup on day 9, shipped a non-trivial PR in week 2, and is still on the team 14 months later. The vetting actually works.”
The engineer joins your standup, sits in your repos, reports to your tech lead, and is treated as part of your team. We handle payroll and benefits as Employer of Record. You direct the technical work.
Commitment:
3-month minimum, monthly thereafter
Rate:
$13 to $25 per hour
A small pod (3 to 6 engineers, mix of senior and mid) with our tech lead, your product owner. Defined scope, fixed-bid or T&M, weekly demo cadence, source code in your repos throughout.
Commitment:
6 weeks to 6 months
Pricing:
from $20K v1, scope-dependent
A senior or lead specialist for 10 to 25 hours per week. Useful when you need senior judgement on a specific phase but don't need a full-time hire. Common ones: security review, ML model kickoff, SRE pre-launch readiness.
Commitment:
4 to 12 weeks
Rate:
$20 to $25 per hour
A senior engineer (or two) on a defined scope for two weeks. The engineer ships PRs against your repo, sits in your code review process, and works through architecture decisions with your team. Converts to a longer engagement on success. Walk if it isn't a fit.
Commitment:
2 weeks paid
Pricing:
from $4,000 fixed
| Route | Vetting Floor | Continuity | Compliance Posture | Typical Senior Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toptal | Strong, generic | Engineer-by-engineer marketplace | Buyer-managed | $80 to $140 per hour |
| Upwork freelance | You vet from scratch | You manage attrition | You own all certs | $40 to $100 per hour |
| India staffing broker | Variable, broker-dependent | Broker exits at month 3 | Often weak audit trail | $20 to $40 per hour |
| Direct India hire (LinkedIn) | You vet | You manage attrition | You own all certs | $30 to $60 per hour |
| ScalaCode India pod | 5-stage, 3% pass | In-practice replacement, 24-month median tenure | ISO 9001, MeitY, BAA, SOC 2 ready | $18 to $25 per hour |
RBI-aligned data residency, FCA-aligned audit logs, transaction monitoring at scale, fraud detection models in production.
HIPAA BAA-backed builds, EHR integrations, patient triage agents, MeitY-empanelled hosting where data residency is the constraint.
POS systems, inventory and recommendation engines, AI virtual try-on, conversion-optimization engineering for high-volume catalogs.
Multi-tenant architectures, observability, INP and Core Web Vitals remediation, API platform engineering.
IoT data pipelines, predictive maintenance models, MES integrations, factory-floor analytics dashboards.
Routing engines, fleet management, real-time tracking infrastructure, warehouse-management integrations.
Adaptive learning platforms, video infrastructure at scale, content delivery networks, assessment engines.
High-traffic, low-latency systems. Real-time bidding stacks, CDN engineering, video encoding pipelines.
iOS-first AI virtual try-on platform. Real-time mobile rendering, AI image-processing pipeline, scalable media delivery. Live in multiple markets.
6-month build · 4 senior engineers
Android POS on rugged SUNMI L2S Pro terminals. Replaced a legacy DOS handheld for a retail chain. Offline-first sync, EPOS integration, rugged-device engineering depth.
4-month build · 3 engineers + lead
Phone wait time dropped from 18 minutes to under 4 minutes after launch. HIPAA BAA in place, MeitY-empanelled hosting where data residency was the constraint.
US client · 9-week build · $95K · 3 senior engineers
Build a capable team of engineers without burning your budget. At ScalaCode, we offer a transparent, cost-effective pricing model based on experience level. Whether you’re hiring senior engineers or building an offshore software development team, we make elite talent accessible, fast, simple, and scalable.
Mid-Level
(3 to 5yrs Experience)
Hours
Validity 30 days
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Validity 30 days
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Validity 30 days
Senior
(5yrs+ above)
Hours
Validity 30 days
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Validity 30 days
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Validity 30 days
Lead Engineer
(8yrs+ above)
Hours
Validity 60 days
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Validity 60 days
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Validity 60 days
Associate
$1200-$1500
Junior
$1400-$1800
Mid-Level
$1800-$2100
Senior
$2200-$3000
Lead
$3200-$4000
Scale your team with expert software developers tailored to your specific needs, fast and hassle-free.
Contact UsYour first vetted profile lands in your inbox inside 48 hours of the discovery call. Most clients get a shortlist of 3 by day 3.
Five-stage technical and async-communication assessment. 97% of applicants don’t make it past stage 3. The 3% who do are who you interview.
ISO 9001 certified delivery operation since 2011. Re-audited every 12 months. The audit trail satisfies enterprise procurement on first review.
Every engineer is a full-time ScalaCode employee. No marketplace freelancers, no benched 1099 workers, no three-layer subcontracting.
Engineers stay on engagements. When one rotates off, we replace from inside the same practice with someone who already knows our patterns.
Employer of Record handles tax and labour. Mutual NDA, work-for-hire IP assignment, your jurisdiction (US, UK, Singapore, Australia) as the contracting entity.
Optional paid discovery sprint. You see the engineer ship real work for two weeks. If it isn’t a fit, you walk and we move on, no longer engagement.
The rate card is the rate card. Annual commitments and pods step the rate down, never up. Renewal pricing matches signed pricing.
Same vetting bar across every category. Group by your stack, not by ours.
India trains more software engineers each year than any other country, so the pool of senior talent is genuinely deeper than the US, the UK, or Eastern Europe at the price point. The fully loaded cost runs roughly 70% lower than the equivalent US senior. English fluency is high at the senior level, which you’ll feel between our 3% pass and a typical marketplace contractor. The honest trade-off: time zone. US Pacific teams get less overlap than US Eastern. We work around it with shifted hours when the engagement needs it, but it’s a real factor and we don’t pretend otherwise.
Standups happen in your time zone, not ours. For US Eastern teams that’s a 4 to 8 hour daily overlap. For US Pacific, 3 to 6 hours. UK and EU teams get a full working day of overlap. When an engagement needs heavier West Coast hours, we run shifted shifts on the India side. We won’t paper over a real mismatch with bad coverage. If the time zone math doesn’t work, we’ll say so on the first call.
A senior software engineer (5 to 8 years) runs $1,800 to $2,500 a month on a dedicated full-time engagement, or $18 to $20 hourly. A lead or principal (8+ years) is $3,200 to $4,000 monthly. Rates are driven by seniority, not by where you’re based. Annual commitments and multi-engineer pods step the rate down. Rate cards are transparent and reviewed quarterly.
ISO 9001 since 2011, re-audited annually. MeitY empanelment for India-soil workloads. HIPAA BAA for healthcare engagements. SOC 2 Type II readiness for fintech buyers. GDPR processor agreements for EU customers. Most procurement teams find the audit trail ready on first review, which keeps the legal review from becoming the bottleneck.
Spoken and written English fluency is a hard filter in our 5-stage vetting, tested in a live conversation rather than a written submission. Cultural fit is calibrated during your interview round, which you run yourself. We send 2 to 3 profiles per role, not a flood. If none of them feel right, that’s useful signal and we recalibrate the brief. The goal is the engineer your team would have hired internally, not a placeholder.
IP assigns to the buyer on payment. Mutual NDAs from kickoff. Work-for-hire structure under your jurisdiction (US Delaware, UK, Singapore, Australia) where requested. Source code stays in your repository the whole time, not ours. India-side employment stays with us as the entity of record, so you avoid the misclassification risk that comes with hiring contractors directly.
Backend in Node.js, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Rails. Frontend in React, Next.js, Vue, Angular. Mobile in Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native. Cloud across AWS, Azure, GCP with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions. AI/ML through OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, Pinecone, LangChain. Data on PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks. We staff to the stack you already run on, not the one we’d prefer you ran on.
Seven to ten working days from signed engagement letter to first standup is typical. Days 1 to 4 are interview matching. Days 5 to 7 are contracting and tooling onboarding. From day 8 the engineer is in your delivery cadence. We can compress for urgent needs, but we don’t compress the 5-stage vetting.
Three real differences. First, every engineer is a full-time ScalaCode employee, not a benched freelancer or a three-layer subcontract. Second, we’re ISO 9001 audited end to end (most India shops aren’t, or only on a thin slice of the delivery lifecycle). Third, replacements come from inside the same practice when an engineer rotates off, so the next person already knows your patterns. Most other India shops can match one of these, not all three.
The 2-week paid discovery sprint is built for exactly that. You get a senior engineer (or two) on a defined scope for two weeks. The engineer ships actual PRs against your repo, you see how they handle code review and architecture conversations, and you decide based on real work, not interview signal. If it matches what you expected, the sprint converts to a longer engagement. If it doesn’t, you walk and we close out cleanly.
I needed fast, budget-smart solutions, ScalaCode delivered both with excellent communication and dependable service.
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