Hire a Dedicated Development Team in India
A dedicated development team in India from Appsierra is a vetted, senior-led pod that works only on your roadmap — engineers, QA and DevOps who own delivery rather than contractors you manage piecemeal. A small offshore pod of three to five engineers typically runs $12,000–$40,000 a month, based on industry estimates.
What a your market engagement costs
Indicative monthly rates against local market cost. Quoted firm after a 30-minute call — these are for comparison, not a quote.
Why teams use us
Stand-ups and reviews in your hours of real overlap
Your standup, review window and end-of-day handover all fall inside the pod’s working day. Overlap is contractual, not aspirational.
Contracting you recognise
Contracted through our US or UK entity. NDA and MSA signed before any system access, and IP assigns to you on creation rather than on final payment.
Seven days, not a quarter
Engineers are already evaluated on our platform, so you skip sourcing and screening entirely.
Senior sign-off on every release
A named senior engineer is accountable for the work, and our evaluation platform gates the output before it reaches your repository.
Common questions
What is a dedicated development team?
A dedicated development team is a group of engineers (and usually QA and DevOps) assigned exclusively to your product for the length of the engagement. Unlike project-based outsourcing — where a vendor delivers a fixed scope and leaves — a dedicated team behaves like an extension of your own org: it learns your codebase and domain, sits in your rituals, and compounds context sprint over sprint.
The model suits companies with an ongoing roadmap rather than a one-off build: SaaS products, platforms and scale-ups that need durable velocity without the cost and lead time of hiring locally.
Dedicated team vs staff augmentation vs project outsourcing
Staff augmentation gives you individual contractors who slot into your management — you direct and own the outcome. Project outsourcing hands a fixed scope to a vendor who owns delivery but then leaves. A dedicated team sits between the two: a stable, senior-led pod that owns delivery and stays embedded with your roadmap.
Appsierra runs the dedicated-team model with senior review and an evaluation-gated quality bar, so you get the accountability of project outsourcing with the continuity and flexibility of an in-house team — and you can prove the fit on a pilot first.
How do you keep quality high on an offshore team?
Quality offshore fails when it's a pile of unmanaged contractors. We prevent that with embedded senior review, an SDET inside the pod, and our own evaluation tooling that validates both human and AI-assisted work before it reaches you. You set the priorities; the pod's lead owns velocity and the quality gate.
What it costs
A dedicated developer in India typically runs in the region of US $2,500–6,000 per engineer per month (or ~$20–50/hour) depending on seniority and skill — far below US/UK in-house fully-loaded cost. Appsierra quotes the pod transparently to your roadmap and seniority mix rather than a single blended rate.
Figures are honest industry ranges for guidance, not a fixed quote — your price depends on scope, seniority and engagement model.
What the pod looks like
Roles & skills you get
- Full-stack engineers (React, Node, Python, Java, .NET) for product and platform work.
- Frontend, backend, mobile (iOS/Android, React Native, Flutter) and data engineers.
- Embedded QA / SDET so quality is built in, not bolted on at the end.
- DevOps / SRE for CI/CD, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and reliability.
- A delivery lead / engineering manager who owns velocity and is your single point of contact.
How the pod works
- The team is dedicated — it works only on your roadmap, learns your domain, and compounds context over time.
- A senior lead owns delivery and reviews the work; you get accountability for an outcome, not a staffing invoice.
- Fixed monthly pod cost makes budgeting predictable; scale the team as the roadmap grows.
- Works in your timezone overlap, in your tools and rituals (sprints, standups, your board).
- Start with a paid pilot on a real slice of the roadmap before committing long-term.
Why hire through Appsierra
What you are actually buying
- Truly dedicated: the team works only on your product and retains context — not a shared pool rotated across clients.
- Outcome ownership: a senior lead owns velocity and quality, so you're buying delivery, not just seats.
- Predictable cost and easy scaling without the hire/fire and overhead of growing an in-house team.
- Evaluation-gated quality and India's deep engineering talent pool, with clear timezone-overlap communication.
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Internal linking across the hiring cluster — every engagement model, and the service pages behind them.
Three matched profiles, daily overlap, 48 hours
Tell us the role and we send three senior engineers who are actually available, with their platform scores and an interview slot in your working day.