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Development Team as a Serviceby
About us
Developex is an outstanding team of IT professionals with remarkable experience in custom software development.
Over 13 years, our team has gained a reputation of reliable and efficient partnering and has built strong relationships with several companies around the world.
The main DevelopEx benefit (for our partners) is our unique recruiting and team building strategy. Combined with full transparency, our partners can demand any level of control. That makes our service entirely unique on the market.
Year founded and current team size:2001 and currently 100+ full time specialists
Our customers:
Software Development Team as a ServiceDevelopex prepared and mastered unique service of gathering small highly educated teams of software developers to work as part of clients’ company.
Service description:
We are perfect for starting teams of 3-7 software developers in offshore/near-shore location. This team size fits the best for most projects initiation. Ask us why, if you’re not sure.
It’s much easier for us to get and maintain this type of teams than for any smaller group. Compared to building such office from scratch in remote location, our typical set-up time is 2-3 months or faster.
Typical team profile (flexible):
Project manager/ Developers QA tester(s)team lead Senior/Middle/Junior
If you can't feed team with 2 pizzas it's too large.
Benefits:
Our current position on the market allows us to offer extremely competitive price for the service in comparison to bigger outsourcing companies and especially to in-house employment in North America and EU.
Uniqueness of our offer is an option of complete control over team by the Client , with maximum protection from security, budgetary and team connection points of view.
And our: 13 years of software development experience helped us to build valuable complementary services (software consultancy, temporary team extension upon request, 24x7 support and more below)
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Case studies
Customer: Business intelligence startup from California , USA.
Team: DevelopEx set up a team of 8 senior and intermediate developers, 4 QA engineers
Technology: PHP, Java, Python, MySQL, Hadoop, BigQuery, QlikView
Project duration: Team started from 3 people and after 4 years of work it has grown to 13 people in Kiev office.
Expertise required: Team leader who fitted the customer team was crucial. Strong technical skills in PHP/MYSQL.
Interesting fact: Client has product owner and architect. At some stage in-house engineers appeared for technical sales and support.
Customer: ERP software company for Oil and Gas industry , in Alberta, Canada.
Team: Developex set up a team of 4 senior and intermediate developers
Technology: .NET, nHibernate, MVC4, MS SQL.
Project duration: 2 years and expanding.
Expertise that required: Client required extremely strong developers from top of the market and had tough interview/screening process.
Interesting fact: Client company has very strong technical in-house team with great process in terms of code reviews and continuous integration practices. Developers all feel like they get great experience in this team and no one ever left.
Customer: E-commerce , and marketing company in Paris, France.
Team: 10 to 15 full-time people with team leader and manager , all working directly with French sales managers down or up sizing depending on customer needs.
Project duration: 7 years and going on even after company acquisition by bigger French enterprise.
Expertise that required: Specifics of customer projects required strong managers and multiple cheaper resources working on e-commerce/wordpress/joomla and other non-demanding technologies.
Interesting fact: Client required complete financial transparency and control over all salaries and expenses of this office.
The Process
We offer service customized according your requirements and needs.
● You, with our help, define what team and what skills do you want: technologies, level of education, years of experience, unique expertise, etc.
● We decide what working model and what communications will be inside your team
● You take part in interviewing and short listing processes.● After team gathered we maintain the infrastructure and allocate
our senior managers time for reviews and improvements, maintaining high motivation and level of engagement in the team.
● We strengthen our service by complementary services : temporary staffing, specialized knowledge consultations, 24x7 support, security audits, continuous integration process setup and training, other advice on software development practices or team management or quality control.
With Developex you are able to create synergy and close relationships with your Ukrainian team, which will be part of your corporate culture.
Human resources
Unique recruiting strategy
Working more than 13 years, we’ve gained reputation of stable and reliable employer in Ukraine.
We’ve built our unique network of professional IT specialists and able to fulfill some senior positions in less than a month.
With Developex you are able to concentrate on profit and productivity, while we are helping you easily accomplish recruiting and administrative management tasks.
Our team
Developex formed outstanding corporate culture of knowledge sharing and teamwork.
All our developers got their PhD, MS or BS with major in Computer Science or Applied Math and we are constantly working on developing our professional skills.
Thanks to that Developex has one of the highest rates of employee retention on the market with more than 70% of team working for more than 3 years in the company. And the majority of remaining 30% were hired during our latest growth.
Security and control
Security
We provide your team with all conditions necessary for secure work:
● Separate office space with team members access only
● NDA agreements with team members● Permanent video conferencing
Developex offers high intellectual property protection and best security practices.
Developex signs NDA agreement and provides exit opportunities if partner wants to continue it alone.
With Developex you can have the level of financial control you prefer. If you like, you can have all bills and expenses under control, including salaries negotiations, etc.
We get transparent management fee for our service.
Administrative and operational tasks
Developex manage all administrative and operational issues.
We hire IT specialists to our company and take care of all necessary HR accounting procedures.
Costs
Location and time difference
Developex headquarters are located in the heart of Eastern Europe - Kiev, Ukraine.
Location benefits:Ukraine is an epicentre of IT industry progress.Kiev is largest city in Ukraine with 68 Universities and 100 000 IT specialists and the number is constantly growing. Ukraine has great educational standards and delivers professionals recognized around the world. At the same time labor rates here are still affordable and competitive.
Time difference
Ukraine is located in GMT+2 hours Time zone
For teams bigger than 10 people we also offer onsite or same time zone manager.
at least 3-4 hours working time overlap daily with our North American partners
8 hours working time overlap daily with our European partners