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Offshore development center
A long-term R&D presence in Poland, with its own office, operations and a team that can grow past the first hires.
Hire a dedicated development team in Poland
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Since 2016
Building dedicated teams
155
Engineers on customer teams
30+
Dedicated teams built
60,000+
Engineers in our database
5.0
Clutch & Glassdoor rating
4+ years
Median customer partnership
Trusted by leading companies
About
What is a dedicated development team?
A dedicated development team is a full-time engineering unit focused exclusively on customer's products. In the dedicated development team model we hire people who stay with you long-term, unlike project outsourcing, which has a fixed scope with a set end date.
On The Spot Development recruits and employs the team in Poland and runs the local side: employment contracts, payroll, HR, hardware, benefit package and the Warsaw office. The engineers work from that office, remotely, or hybrid, whichever matches your vision.
Honest assessment
When a dedicated development team in Poland is the right call
On The Spot Development steps in where this model works. Here is how to decide if a dedicated team in Poland is the right fit for you.
Right Moment
Your roadmap grows faster than your team. You prioritized the features, but you can't find local developers who fit your target salary. Poland has the depth, with 60,000+ engineers in our database, and costs less.
You want engineers embedded directly in your process. They pull tickets from your board, open PRs in your repositories, and join your daily standups.
You want to control the hiring. You approve each offer, whether you run the technical round yourself or let us handle it based on your criteria.
Your product needs people who stay. Explaining the codebase again every few months is costing you more than the headcount does.
The shape of the team will change. You start with the roles that unblock the current roadmap and add or swap them as the product grows.
Probably not yet
You need a fixed scope for a fixed price. On The Spot Development doesn't sell such engagements. A project outsourcing vendor fits this better.
You are hiring one person without growing a team. Then our tech recruitment services fit better: we find the people to your criteria, while you employ them and run everything after the offer.
You need extra hands for a few weeks. There is no bench here, so hiring from the market takes weeks. Send the timeline and we'll say what's realistic.
You only need basic paper employment. A standard EOR handles payroll on paper. On The Spot Development builds a full operational setup: search and replacements, a Warsaw office, encrypted laptops, medical insurance, an education budget, salary benchmarking and retention work.
Smart team scaling
Can you start with a small team and scale later?
You can start with two engineers and grow from there. Most teams here start with 2 to 5 people to unblock the current roadmap, then add roles when the process needs them.
Engineering leaders at On The Spot Development customers have already adoted what AI tools changed. We now search for senior people who work on their own, understand the product and review what those tools produce.
Read what we learned about AI and engineering hiring.
Comparison
Dedicated team vs. staff augmentation vs. EOR vs. project outsourcing
Offshore development center | An own entity with an in-house team abroad | Staff augmentation | Build-operate-transfer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
What you get | A standing team built strictly for your product roadmap | One or two people temporarily added to your team | People you found yourself, employed on paper | A project delivered against a fixed written spec |
Who finds engineers | On The Spot Development recruits, you approve | The vendor allocates from their active bench | You do entirely | The vendor picks from its own staff |
Who directs work | Your internal managers | Your internal managers | Your internal managers | The vendor's delivery lead |
HR & retention | On The Spot Development (HR, tools, Warsaw workspace) | Usually the vendor (basic line management) | You do entirely | The vendor manages their own staff |
How you pay | Fixed management fee + actual engineer salaries | Marked-up hourly or monthly blended rate | Employee salary plus a flat platform fee | Fixed price or marked-up hourly rates |
Product context | Stays inside your team across product releases | Leaves your company when the contract ends | Depends on that one developer staying | Stays entirely with the vendor’s internal team |
Best for | A long-term engineering roadmap measured in years | Fixing a critical resource gap for a few months | Onboarding developers you already know | A defined project with a strict finish line |
Offshore development center
An own entity with an in-house team abroad
Staff augmentation
Build-operate-transfer
What you get
A standing team built strictly for your product roadmap
One or two people temporarily added to your team
People you found yourself, employed on paper
A project delivered against a fixed written spec
Who finds engineers
On The Spot Development recruits, you approve
The vendor allocates from their active bench
You do entirely
The vendor picks from its own staff
Who directs work
Your internal managers
Your internal managers
Your internal managers
The vendor's delivery lead
HR & retention
On The Spot Development (HR, tools, Warsaw workspace)
Usually the vendor (basic line management)
You do entirely
The vendor manages their own staff
How you pay
Fixed management fee + actual engineer salaries
Marked-up hourly or monthly blended rate
Employee salary plus a flat platform fee
Fixed price or marked-up hourly rates
Product context
Stays inside your team across product releases
Leaves your company when the contract ends
Depends on that one developer staying
Stays entirely with the vendor’s internal team
Best for
A long-term engineering roadmap measured in years
Fixing a critical resource gap for a few months
Onboarding developers you already know
A defined project with a strict finish line
Technologies
Technologies our dedicated development teams cover
On The Spot Development hires engineers for the stack your product already runs on. Teams are built around it, so the mix of backend, mobile, data or security engineers follows what your roadmap needs. If your stack is missing here, bring it up during role discovery.
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
DevOps and cloud
QA
Data
Cybersecurity products
AI and machine learning
Industries & Domains
Where our teams work today
Cybersecurity
Cloud security platforms, software supply chain products, and email security. Orca Security since 2019, Cycode since 2021, Ocean Security since 2025.
cybersecurity development services
Gaming and ad tech
Mobile growth and in-app advertising products, on a system delivering 4M+ installs a day. Teams built for Unity since 2021.
AI products
AI-first consumer mobile apps at 44pixels since 2024, and a pharmaceutical compliance platform automating regulatory document review since 2024.
Sports media and fitness
Real-time sports data platforms and long-running fitness products. Team of 15 on the core engine at 365Scores since 2021, Fisikal since 2016.
SaaS and business platforms
Clientflow software for small businesses, and automotive leasing operations. Teams built for HoneyBook and Tower Auto Mall since 2024.
Regulated finance
Online trading across several jurisdictions, and AI-driven compliance monitoring. Finonex since 2025, Sedric.ai since 2024.
Ownership
What your dedicated team can own
Leads grown inside the team
One cloud security platform went from the first hire to four teams in Poland, with team leads promoted from inside the people who were already there.
Work across product lines
At a mobile growth and ad tech company, engineers sit in several product groups, from on-device app distribution to the ad exchange.
One team, four languages
A supply chain security team runs Python, Go, C# and .NET services on Kafka, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, with Terraform underneath.
A migration, and the QA to ship it
A clientflow platform for 100,000+ businesses moved from AngularJS to React. The same team runs its mobile app and QA today.
Backend and mobile in one team
For an AI mobile studio in London, one team covers the Ruby on Rails backend, the React Native apps, design and QA.
A product from its first line
Two engineers built the first version of a social SaaS product and stayed with it for four years.
Success stories
Scaling a team for a sportstech platform
Expanding an engineering team for a global sports product
Under NDA
Dedicated team for a venture capital-funded startup
Building and supporting a 17+ team for a VC-backed startup in mobile AI
Under NDA
Development team for an AI‑driven cybersecurity startup
Building and scaling a 25‑person team in Poland for a VC-backed startup.
Under NDA
Offshore team for a clientflow management platform
Extending the R&D team behind a CRM and FinTech platform for small businesses
Under NDA
Dedicated team for a fintech & enterprise AI company
Building and growing an engineering team in Poland
Under NDA
Our process
How your dedicated development team gets built
Role discovery
You describe your product goals, and define the engineer profiles, technical stack, required seniority. We define the target hiring timeline in Poland.
01
Search and pre-screen
On The Spot Development checks each candidate for experience, tech stack fit, English and motivation. In 3 to 5 working days you get profiles with notes, salary expectations and a recommendation, and you can track them in our ATS.
02
Your interviews
You run the technical interviews and approve every offer. Or our CTO can take it on as a separate engagement, to your criteria.
03
Contract, hardware, access
We prepare the Polish employment contract, the equipment and the benefits. By day one the engineer has a signed NDA and access requests waiting for your approval.
04
First sprint
You get engineers embedded in your daily workflow (standups, board, PRs). Your managers own the code and delivery. We keep HR, retention and any replacement search on our side.
05
Hiring speed
How long hiring a dedicated development team takes
Our Warsaw recruitment engine delivers senior talent fast. Once we hired a Senior Data Analyst for a US startup in 10 days, filtering 150+ profiles.
A standard role in a common tech stack can close in weeks. Rare roles take longer. The Linux and eBPF specialists for Orca Security came out of a targeted search through GitHub, closed communities and engineering chats.
Transparent Pricing
What a dedicated development team costs
Engineering salary
Fixed management fee
One monthly number per engineer. It covers the gross salary and a fixed management fee.
You see the salary. Your invoice shows the exact gross salary from the engineer's contract. No hidden markups or extra additions.
What moves the number? Seniority, the stack and how rare the role is on the Polish market set the salary. The management fee stays the same.
Why On The Spot Development
Why customers build their dedicated team with On The Spot Development
A team that stays on your product
Each engineer is hired for your team and works on your product only. The same people keep your product context after release.
Your workspace, your routines
Engineers embed directly into your internal setup. They report straight to your managers, join your communication channels, and work the way your team already works.
You drive the code, we keep the employer side
Your leadership owns architecture, code review and product decisions. On The Spot Development handles the employment contracts, the payroll taxes and everything Polish labor law asks of an employer.
Predictable software budgeting
Two simple lines on your invoice: the engineer's exact contracted salary plus our fixed management fee. We add zero extra charges on top.
The same people across releases
Your account manager monitors compensation and burnout risks. You retain the engineers who built your product.
Team capacity moves with your product roadmap
Adjust team size as your roadmap demands. Every scale-up or scale-down uses the same contract and standard notice periods set by Polish law.
IP and security
Who owns the code, and how your systems stay protected
You own the code from the moment it's written
Each engineer assigns their work product to On The Spot Development under Polish law as it's created. Your contract passes it straight to your company.
EU-compliant NDAs
Every engineer signs a confidentiality agreement before getting access to your systems.
Secure workstations
Every laptop has full-disk encryption and sits under central device management, so a lost device can be locked remotely. The Warsaw office opens with a badge only.
Your security rules apply
By default, engineers work on staging or anonymized data, and production data stays off their laptops. You grant access to your systems and revoke it at any time. When an engineer leaves, On The Spot Development closes every access on their last day.
Why engineers stay
What keeps engineers on your team
A dedicated team works only when the same engineers stay long enough to keep the product context. On The Spot Development has a 5.0 Glassdoor rating, with 100% of reviewers recommending the company. What our management fee covers:
- Local perks. Private medical insurance, an individual education budget, and tech courses.
- Salary benchmarking. We check each engineer's compensation against the Polish market and adjust it before retention becomes a risk.
- Peer community. Our engineers meet experts from other companies at TechSpot, our own events in Warsaw, and bring what they learn back to the team.
Testimonials
Their professionalism, flexibility, and commitment to our success have made them a trusted strategic partner.
Dor Atias
Co-Founder & CPO
Their candidate selection process is extremely efficient, and, what's even more important, very customisable, meaning we only spend our time interviewing relevant candidates that have been carefully preselected according to all our specific requirements.
Adam Stevens
CEO & Co-Founder
On The Spot Development has provided us with 15 developers, including server and automation developers, who have been writing the core of 365Scores' engine.
Ami Sirkis
CEO
On The Spot Development has provided us with permanent team members. The team has helped us with codebase modernization from AngularJS to React, our mobile app, and ongoing QA efforts.
Boaz Adato
Head of engineering guild
FAQ
Frequently asked
questions
How much does a dedicated team in Poland cost?
On The Spot Development’s cost of hiring dedicated developers in Poland follows a cost-plus model. You pay each engineer's gross compensation plus one fixed monthly management fee.
Who is on the team, and who manages it?
A dedicated project team is built as a dedicated team of developers, QA, DevOps and tech leads, around the roles your roadmap needs. On The Spot Development hires each person for your team, with nobody waiting on a bench. Your managers run the delivery. If you need technical leadership before a lead is hired, CTO as a Service covers the gap.
Team extension or a dedicated development team?
The difference between team extension and a dedicated development team is how long the people stay. Team extension, also sold as staff augmentation, adds one or two engineers for a few months. A dedicated team is recruited, employed and kept for your product over years.
Dedicated team or employer of record (EOR)?
An EOR or payroll platform simply puts developers you found yourself on paper employment in Poland. Finding, vetting, and replacing them is entirely your job. With a Dedicated Team, On The Spot Development handles the tech recruitment, HR operations, and the replacement search in Warsaw, while you focus on the engineering.
Can the team work US hours?
A dedicated team in Poland can align with US hours to a point. Warsaw is 5 to 6 hours ahead of New York and 8 to 9 ahead of San Francisco. East Coast teams get three to four hours of live overlap a day, enough for standups, reviews and sync calls.
If your role requires specific working hours, bring it up during discovery. We build the shifted hours directly into the hiring requirements and confirm them with every candidate before making an offer.
What is inside the management fee?
The fee covers everything an employer does in Poland:
- Recruitment: Sourcing, prescreening, and replacement searches, at no separate charge.
- Employment and tax administration: Setting up and maintaining Polish employment contracts (UoP) and B2B contracts.
- Payroll and benefits: Monthly salary processing, local accounting, private medical insurance, and learning budgets.
- HR: Onboarding, performance cycles, salary benchmarking, and retention work.
- Hardware and workspace: Laptops and equipment, plus access to our Warsaw office.
Dedicated team or offshore development center?
A dedicated development team works directly on your product. Engineers join your workflow, access your codebase, and push your roadmap forward. An offshore development center creates a standing R&D hub in Poland with its own operations, built to scale far past initial hires. If you focus on the product, choose the team. If you need a permanent engineering base in Europe, read about the offshore development center.
Can the team scale up or down?
The team’s structure changes as your needs change. Most teams start with 2 to 5 engineers and add roles when the roadmap expands. Reducing team size follows standard Polish notice periods, which depend on contract type and tenure. We give you those exact timelines before you hire.
How do you make sure engineers are good, and what if one doesn't fit?
Quality starts with the hiring bar. On The Spot Development screens every candidate, and you run the technical interview and approve each offer. After that, your code review sets the standard. If someone doesn't fit, the search restarts from the brief you already gave us, so it usually closes faster than the first hire. The management fee covers it.
How do I hire a dedicated software team in Poland?
Tell us the roles, stack and seniority you need. We search the Polish market, prescreen candidates technically and send you profiles. You interview and approve every hire. We then employ the engineers in Poland and handle contracts, payroll and equipment, while the team works full-time on your product under your management.
Let's build your dedicated team
Tell us the roles, the stack and when you need people. You get a hiring plan back.
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