Hire offshore developers long-term
We don’t just hire offshore developers, but also build, operate and transfer offshore teams from scratch, and deliever:
- Valley-grade teams of 20+ senior developers in 3 months
- Up to 40% cost savings compared to traditional outsourcers
- Employer of Record service – our compliant employment solution
- Zero buy-out cost — it’s your offshore developers
- No intermediary in team management
Mexico
Colombia
Argentina
Chile
Poland
Romania
Ukraine
BulgariaYour Own Up and Running Software Team of Offshore Developers
More than Just Hiring
2.5 years
is the average tenure of our hires
Cultural alignment
with your company values
Pricing transparency
no hidden or buy-out fees
Legal & compliance
and other needed operational support
Exceptional dedication
it’s literally your own team
Long-term partnership
shared responsibility & commitmentWe hire any offshore experts
Key Things About Hiring Offshore
Why big tech offshore software development
The appeal behind hiring offshore software developers lies in 2 main drivers that propel tech companies forward: huge tech talent pools and slashed costs. Thus, technology giants tap into million-sized pools with coders of diverse tech stacks. That, in turn, helps them build products faster and scale while reducing costs due to a stark contrast between software engineers’ salaries from the US and other countries. For instance, hiring offshore developers helps you save from 30% to 70%: just choose to hire offshore software engineers outside the US.
Top IT offshoring destinations
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Poland
Poland is an offshoring magnet in Eastern Europe. Its talent pool amounts to 607,000 software developers and a yearly influx of 20,000 ICT graduates. Most prized skills center around JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, Shell, TypeScript, PHP, and C#. The IT industry and infrastructure are thriving too: there are more than 50,000 IT businesses and five major hubs in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, and Tri-city (Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot).
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Ukraine
The Ukrainian IT scene has 307,000 software engineers shining, while 27,000 annual ICT graduates add up to the dazzle. The strongest skills of Ukrainian devs include JavaScript, Java, C#, Python, and PHP. As for the tech market in general, it bustles with 5,600 IT businesses and five hubs in Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, and Kharkiv.
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Romania
Romania also draws tech businesses, with 200,000 of tech talent and 10,000 ICT graduates flowing in each year. Unparalleled tech skills? It’s JavaScript, Java, PHP, C#, Python, React, Angular, HTML, and CSS. The Romanian IT market boasts 7,930 IT businesses and 3 buzzing tech hubs in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and Iasi.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria offers a talent pool of 110,000 and a consistent influx of 6,100 yearly ICT graduates to boot. Bulgarian software developers specialize in C#, JavaScript, Java, Python, SQL, PHP, and .NET. 10,000 IT businesses and three active tech hubs in Sofia, Burgas, and Plovdiv further contribute to Bulgaria’s appeal.
Developers’ shortage on the US market
Tech demand in the US is strong: 121,000 IT jobs remain unfilled. As of March 2024, there were 438,000 active tech job postings, with 41% accounting for occupations that require AI skills.
Overall, the US labor market is still tight. The struggle is ongoing: to find suitable candidates for open positions. Plus, implications of recent layoffs and hiring freeze are still taking their toll.
That’s why, when seeking rare tech talents, companies turn to offshoring. In Eastern Europe, tech businesses hire offshore software developers out of an abundant 1.5M pool. Let’s take a closer look at trending sectors: AI, Blockchain, Cloud, and Machine Learning.
Tech talent pool worldwide
AI
The demand for AI is growing, and countries in Eastern Europe provide a burgeoning source of talent:
- Poland leads with 2,800 AI developers.
- Ukraine follows closely with 1,300 AI developers.
- Romania and Bulgaria have 1,300 and 650 AI developers, respectively.
Blockchain
Eastern European Blockchain software engineers are also present:
- Poland and Ukraine lead the way with 1,100 skilled Blockchain coders each.
- Romania showcases a presence of 620 adept Blockchain developers.
- Meanwhile, Bulgaria contributes 550 Blockchain programmers to the regional pool.
Cloud
The numbers of Cloud professionals give a considerable supply for the US tech demand:
- Poland comes first with 8,400 Cloud software engineers on the labor market.
- Romania follows suit with its 4,400 Cloud developers.
- Bulgaria adds up to the overall pool with its 2,200 Cloud programmers and Ukraine steps in with 1,800.
Machine Learning
As for Machine Learning, there’s an oasis of rare skilled specialists for the businesses parched in the US tech desert:
- Poland leads with 3,000 tech experts.
- Ukraine and Romania come second with 1,200 machine-learning coders each.
- Bulgaria contributes with 590 programmers.
Offshore developers’ salaries worldwide
What about the salary rates? Here is what Senior engineers with 5+ years of experience earn in different domains:
AI
- Artificial intelligence engineers in Poland earn the highest wages in the region, on average, $6,700 a month. Romania follows closely, with $6,500 a month.
- Ukraine offers a $6,300 monthly rate for its AI engineers.
- Senior AI developers in Bulgaria make around $6,000 a month.
Blockchain
- In Romania, blockchain developers are paid the highest at $6,800 a month.
- Poland ranks second with $6,500 monthly.
- Bulgarian blockchain developers earn around $6,200 a month, while their colleagues in Ukraine earn $5,000.
Cloud
- Romania offers the most generous wages for cloud developers at $7,000 a month.
- Polish developers charge around $6,000 monthly for their services, while Bulgarian cloud coders make $4,800 a month.
- Ukraine has the lowest wages among these countries, with a monthly salary rate of $4,200.
Machine Learning
- Senior ML engineers from Poland and Romnia earn approximately $6,700 and $6,500 a month, respectively.
- The Ukrainian IT market offers its ML talents a salary rate of $6,300 monthly.
- Bulgarian machine learning engineers charge around $6,000 a month.
Challenges of hiring developers offshore
There are several challenges to consider when entering the realm of offshoring:
- Legal aspects. Before you hire offshore developers, you should dive into the labor law of the chosen location to learn about ways to legally hire local programmers and eventually do it in accordance with the law. Option 1: do all of it by yourself from scratch and spend months (if not years) to get things up and running. And you’ll still make many mistakes along the way if you have no expertise in the local market.
Option 2: choose a reliable local vendor that offers a better solution without setting up your legal entity. - Operational functions. After hiring developers, the journey is far from over. IT companies then face a multitude of operational tasks: onboarding and offboarding (if needed) employees, managing payroll, handling taxes, submitting reports to tax authorities, arranging benefits, and more. Just like with legal processes, mistakes with payroll and tax management can be costly. Therefore, companies often delegate these back-office operations to a local provider who knows all the ins and outs and can handle the paperwork efficiently.
- Provider choice. Offshore software development experience can go sour if your provider makes a mistake like offering unsuitable candidates that waste your time, delaying the discussed deadlines, or failing to provide essential services, thereby making you hire a million other vendors. To avoid such pitfalls, your choice of partner to hire offshore remote developers from Latin America must be rock-solid. They need to be not just reliable and trustworthy but armed with top-notch tech and legal expertise.
How to choose an offshore development partner
When looking for a perfect partner to hire offshore developers, consider their tech and market experience, track record, and guarantees. Find more details below:
- Experience in hiring software developers is a must. It allows you to save time and ensure you’ll get candidates with the right tech stack. Additionally, consider the hiring model proposed: does it meet your needs as a tech business?
- Track record speaks volumes about the provider’s performance, communication, and client approach. To get the bigger picture, read reviews on Clutch and other trusting platforms.
- Guarantees should be as clear as day: how fast can your potential partner hire offshore devs, how much that costs, any buyout fees to take into account, and what they promise if they fail to meet the deadline.
What is an offshore development center?
An offshore development center is your dedicated remote office with a team of software engineers. Usually, tech product companies establish such centers in a foreign location with an abundance of talent and lower labor costs. Imagine it as an extended piece of your in-house puzzle: a reliable provider helps you with office space, procures tech equipment, and provides benefits for your team. All this is possible without setting up your legal entity abroad, just as we did for Ledger, Grammarly, ThredUp, and others.
In comparison with IT outsourcing, where you outsource a project via a third party with no direct control over the team, your own software R&D center allows you to fill the expertise gap, scale fast in a chosen location, and have the whole software team work on your behalf from the start without any buy-out fees.
Your own offshore software development team is better than third-party
Alcor is an all-in-one place to establish and run a turnkey software R&D center:
- Employer of Record support — no need to set up your legal entity
- From 0 to 100 software developers in one key talent pool
- Establish your corporate culture with your own team. No intermediary
- No buy-out or other hidden fees
Own R&D Center vs Offshoring Software Development
Own R&D Center
- Maximized savings Time to unfreeze hiring: your own development team plus office results 2-3 times cheaper. How does that work? You hire and get neither buy-out fees, nor unexpected markups.
- Simplified recruiting Who wouldn’t want to be involved in actually creating a product, rather than writing the code here and there? Product creation and the feeling of ownership draw developers like moths to a flame.
- Own branded office & rules You get your own physical office for ideation, innovation, and growth — everything to manage your team independently and help you scale.
- Intellectual property under control With direct agreements, you fully own your product and its source code, keeping unique expertise in-house.
- Easy investment attraction After establishing your own R&D center, you will not only boost your software development capabilities but also become more attractive to investors.
Offshoring Software Development
- Cloudy pricing Gear up to pay way more than you initially expected: providers will only let you in on the total costs in the end.
- Frequent team changes Skilled software engineers are scarce and allocated between many other projects, and there’s no guarantee your best players won’t be snatched away the next day. Thus, here we go again with onboarding.
- No place for your culture & employer branding Your offshore developers work under the brand of your outsourcing provider at their premises, where no room for your corporate culture and policies is left.
- Shared intellectual property You share your IP with developers that come and go to other projects because of the IP rights agreement with the provider. As a result, the source code is never between you & team only.
- Not investment material It’s tough to get investors onboard when outsourcing your core competencies and not owning the code. Sounds untrustworthy, doesn’t it?
Our customers
Alcor is a reliable partner that meets our hiring needs. We finally hired experienced software engineers in Eastern Europe with strong tech skills and business acumen. Account Managers are awesome!
With Alcor’s all-in-one solution, we got a software R&D office with 15 senior PHP devs and a compliant operational coverage. I really appreciated their transparent pricing structure and deep expertise.
We interviewed a lot of EoR platforms and companies, but Alcor was the only one that provides a combo package of EoR and Recruting offerings. Alcor helped us build a full stack team in 1.5 month.
We wanted to switch from our outsourcing provider, and Alcor has become really game-changing for us. Within a mere 6 months, we got a fully-fledged team of 30 engineers in our own R&D office.
Alcor’s R&D solution eclipses full-cycle recruitment, EOR service, and operational support for our offshore team. Their ‘all-in-one place’ approach is far more cost-effective than I could’ve imagined.
I value their commitment to going the extra mile. We evolved from an outstaff project into an independent company, and Alcor’s support was crucial. They hired and ondoarded 15+ professionals for us.
Thanks to Alcor, we hired four engineers and a designer that strengthened our team. Beside stellar recruitment, Alcor flawlessly handled our payroll. Their approach was seamless and swift.
FAQ
1) Is it cheaper to hire developers offshore?
Yes, and with Alcor you can save from 30% to 70% while scaling your company at the same time. Here’s what makes it possible: the difference in salaries & taxes and the 360-degree Alcor’s model.
In the US, a senior software developer earns up to $180,000 a year, while Eastern European software engineering experts make $83,500. The regional taxation policies also offer lower tax rates. Lastly, Alcor’s approach goes beyond finding offshore remote developers. We get you a team that’s yours from day one — cut costs by not paying buy-out fees!
2) Does Alcor have any guarantees for hiring offshore developers?
Sure, even better: we have guarantees backed up by our performance results. We promise to hire 5 software developers within a month and over 20 within 3 months. All that comes with the guarantee to hire from 0 to 100 programmers in a year and a 3-month warranty for free candidate substitution. Worried we’d miss the deadlines? If that ever happens, we hire the rest of your team free of charge!
3) How fast can Alcor hire offshore software developers?
We pride ourselves on expeditious recruitment — stellar quality within tight timeframes. Alcor’s average time to close a vacancy when hiring a developer is 2-6 weeks. In just 1 day of our cooperation, you’ll get high-quality blind CVs. In the next 5 days, we’ll start sending you the CVs of pre-vetted candidates whom you’d want to invite for an interview right away.
4) Can you headhunt C-level management?
That’s an ace up our sleeve. We’ve amassed 8 years of experience in the tech market and have access to an internal network of hundreds of thousands of candidates! That’s why, C-level management positions, such as CTO, CIO, CMO, CFO, and others, come to our recruiters as easy as pie. Our clients attest to it: we hired the Head of R&D for Sift, an online fraud detection application development firm, from the second CV. Other successful cases include the Director of Engineering for Dotmatics and the Deployment Lead for Ledger.
5) What about payroll, accounting, and office lease in offshore regions?
If you hire offshore software developers with Alcor, there’s no need to establish your legal entity in a target location. With our comprehensive EoR support, we take care of all the nuts and bolts for your offshore software development team. It includes the employment of offshore developers for hire, monthly payroll management, tax payments, accounting, compliance with all local laws, and even more. With our turnkey solution, you can rest assured – we guarantee 100% compliance while handling all the paperwork. And if you want to set up a physical office for your team, we’ll happily assist you in office space search, negotiations with the landlord, and office lease agreement.
6) What else does Alcor’s software R&D solution include?
We don’t stop there! Apart from full-cycle IT recruitment of Silicon-Valley-like software engineers and EoR support, we offer complete operational support that includes IT infrastructure setup, procurement management, employer branding, stock options assistance, visa support, and other back-office assistance.
7) How hiring offshore developers with Alcor can benefit you?
You’ll get only highly skilled offshore software developers for hire, with Alcor’s access to over 3,5M software engineers in Latin America and Eastern Europe. We guarantee rigorous pre-screening: 80% of our CVs are approved by the clients. At Alcor, speed meets quality as 98,6% of our candidates successfully pass the probation period and receive positive client feedback! Ready to try it out yourself?
8) What does the hiring process with Alcor look like?
With 40 experienced IT headhunters, hiring offshore developers with Alcor is smooth sailing. Here’s how the recruitment process works: we send you blind CVs and arrange a kick-off call, where we fill you in on salary ranges in your locations, as well as present our solution and business model. Then, we craft job ads to attract your dream talents and send you the first CVs within 5 days after we start cooperating. After that, candidates that you approve jump into the HR interview, tech interview and/or test task, final interview, offer, and post-offer support with employment and onboarding. Get ready to welcome your new star!