If you have been in the Y Combinator startup program where you worked out the idea for several months and then you realized that to prove that this idea is worth investing in, you have to develop this product or feature. And this moment you realize you have only a month to do that but you are lack engineers that can help with that. Don’t have to worry, as you have a solution–get an offshore development team.
Why Hire Offshore Developers for Your Startup?
In cases you need to hire developers quickly and be sure they have all the required skills, level of experience, you can try the staff augmentation model. This hiring option has the following advantages:
- Hiring speed. With this hiring model, you can hire one or several offshore developers with the required set of skills in less than 48 hours.
- Cost-effectiveness. When you have a remote team, you don’t have to spend money on the office rent, insurance, vacations, etc. Moreover, offshore developers are often from countries with a lower cost of living which influence the average salary as well.
- Wide talent pool. Offshore hiring gives access to a wide pool of talent. Thus, you can find the best-matching developers with the same high experience level and set of skills.
- Flexibility. It is easy to move offshore developers between projects without any issues or to change developers according to the needed technologies at particular developmental stages.
Hiring Outsourcing Developers: Where to Start?
Before hiring offshore developers for your startup, collect and define the next things:
- Define business goals. When you define your main goal and can separate it into smaller ones, you can then easier explain what you exactly need developers to do while hiring them.
- Evaluate the required skills. As well as the goal, you have to evaluate what skills you will need to create the product. It can also help you in finding the right engineers.
- Plan the budget. You need to carefully plan the budget of your startup, leaving the most important parts. Also, find investors whom you will show your MVP forehead.
How to Find a Developer for Your Startup
After defining all the requirements, you can now hire developers. You can find them through several sources:
- Networking;
- Meetings (hackathons, conferences);
- Tech talent marketplaces;
- Offshore software development agencies;
- Social media or LinkedIn;
- Freelance platforms (suitable only for short-term projects or tasks).
Offshore Software Development Challenges
Although having many benefits, there are also several disadvantages that may influence the work of the offshore development teams.
- Different time zone. As offshore developers are often from different time zones, it may be sometimes difficult to manage the teamwork. Although, if you hire developers from countries with several hours ahead, you can have the work done when the engineers will have lunch and you just wake up.
- Lack of face-to-face communication. When your development team is offshore and doesn’t see you often, it may cause some misunderstandings or a decrease in motivation. You can help with it through good team management, constant communication, and visiting them from time to time.
- Cultural differences. Distant countries have different from your cultures and often may cause conflicts as their worldview, as well as ways of solving problems, may be different. Hiring developers from countries that share some similar aspects to your culture can significantly reduce cultural conflicts.
Why Hire Offshore Developers for Startup with YouTeam?
YouTeam is a marketplace that allows you to find and hire highly skilled developers to scale your development team. There are several reasons why hire engineers with YouTeam.
- Wide talent pool. With YouTeam, you get access to more than 20,000 skilled and experienced developers from offshore dev agencies.
- Fast solution. When applying to YouTeam, you will get the first best-matching candidates in less than 48 hours.
- Trusted agencies. Each agency we work with is carefully hand-picked by making a multistage screening process to make sure they are worth trusting.
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