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Hire engineers into your own company in Poland, with technical prescreening and a success-based fee.
Offshore development center services in Poland
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Since 2016
Building R&D teams
30+
R&D teams built
91.6%
Probation pass rate
0 → 55+
Largest team built
4 years
Median partnership
60,000+
Engineers in our database
Trusted by leading companies
About
How an offshore development center works
An offshore development center operates as your permanent, autonomous R&D hub in Poland.
On The Spot Development builds and runs this foreign infrastructure under your brand, hiring to your precise technical bar. You maintain full strategic control, see every actual gross salary, and keep the exclusive right to transition the entire center onto your own corporate payroll from day one.
If you are still comparing models, our guide explains what an offshore development center is.
Who it's for
When to build an offshore development center
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You have critical or hard-to-fill engineering roles that are too slow or expensive to fill locally
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Your headcount plan is capped by hiring costs rather than actual product demand
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You need engineers embedded directly into your processes, reporting straight to your managers
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You want an R&D center in the EU without the overhead of entity registration, office rentals, or local HR
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You are looking for a flexible, scalable, long-term engineering team rather than short-term contractors
Why Poland
Why Poland for an offshore development center
We turn down engagements that are not the right fit. Here is how to know whether this is the right moment for your company.
Depth of the talent market
Around 650,000 tech professionals in Poland, with roughly 57,000 STEM graduates entering the market each year.
EU legal environment
EU membership, GDPR, and established IP protection, under legal frameworks your counsel already recognizes.
Working hours that overlap
CET gives a full working day with the UK and Europe, and several hours of overlap with the US East Coast.
Cost structure
Total employment cost per senior engineer is materially lower than in the US or Israel for a comparable level.
An active engineering community
A dense ecosystem of meetups and conferences. We run TechSpot, our own event series, which reaches engineers who are not on job boards.
Industries & Domains
Industries we've built teams for
Cybersecurity
AppSec and ASPM, cloud security, runtime security and kernel engineering, GRC. Rare roles: eBPF, security research, in-workload agents. R&D teams hosted for Orca Security (2019) and Cycode (2021).
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Game development
Game engine work, backend and live operations, platform infrastructure, graphics engineering. Teams built for Unity and Tripledot Studios.
FinTech
Backend, data, and platform engineers for payment systems, financial infrastructure, and high-volume transaction processing.
AI and machine learning
LLM systems, applied research, MLOps, and data infrastructure. ML engineers, data engineers, research engineers. Teams built for 44pixels and HoneyBook.
Sports and media
Real-time data platforms handling high concurrency. Backend and infrastructure engineering. Teams built for 365Scores and Fisikal.
eCommerce & AdTech
Backend and data engineers for scalable commerce platforms and data-heavy advertising systems. Teams built for Unity, Luna and Karma.
Why On The Spot Development
Why choose offshore development center model
You set the hiring bar
We source and prescreen technically, then present profiles. You run the technical round, or our CTO or a technical expert runs it on your behalf, to your criteria. Either way the decision is yours, and no offer goes out before you make it.
Retention is our job
Your account manager tracks salary positioning, workload, and engagement signals, and raises them while they are still fixable rather than after a resignation.
Salaries you can see
You know each engineer's actual gross salary from the employment contract. Engineers work under Polish contracts with IP assignment in your favor, inside the EU and GDPR framework. Legal, accounting, and immigration sit with us.
Hard-to-fill roles need more than a job ad
We hire for eBPF, Linux kernel, security research, and GRC. Beyond job boards, these searches run through GitHub research, closed communities, and engineering Slack and Discord groups.
Partnerships that last
Median customer partnership is over four years, and 65% of new customers come through referrals from existing ones.
One R&D center, several teams
Our largest client grew from 2 engineers to 55+ across multiple engineering teams, with leads promoted from inside the team.
What's included
What's included in offshore development center services
Recruitment
Role scoping, salary benchmarking, and sourcing across our database, tech communities, and referrals. Every candidate is prescreened for skills, English, motivation, and compensation fit. You make the final decision on every hire.
HR and retention
Continuous support throughout the employee lifecycle: structured onboarding, performance reviews, salary adjustments, and clear career development paths to maximize long-term retention.
Office and equipment
A dedicated space in central Warsaw, hardware, and additional equipment on request. We coordinate team events, business trips, and your visits.
Payroll and administration
Full payroll, tax, and social security compliance for both employment and B2B contracts. We also manage employee perks, including private medical insurance and a yearly education budget.
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Legal and compliance
Employment contracts compliance, Polish labor law expertise, immigration and relocation support, accounting, and operational risk mitigation.
Account management
Your dedicated single point of contact. One manager fully accountable for your hiring pipeline, proactive team wellbeing tracking, and quarterly reviews with total transparency for you.
Our process
How we build your team
Discovering
We define team structure, candidate profiles, and salary ranges against the current Polish market. Positions go live and you get access to the ATS to watch every candidate in real time.
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Sourcing, days 3 to 5
The first shortlist of prescreened candidates reaches you within 3–5 working days of positions going live.
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Screening and hiring
We check candidates for skills, English, motivation, and compensation. You run the technical interviews, or we can run them for you based on your criteria. You make the final decision on every hire.
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Legal and infrastructure
We prepare contracts, branded office access, dedicated hardware, and payroll in parallel with the hiring process for an instant offshore development center launch.
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Onboarding
You handle the product onboarding. We take care of the paperwork, benefits, HR support, and regular probation check-ins.
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Scaling
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Grow without limits. We maintain an active hiring pipeline so you can scale your team, add new technology stacks, and expand whenever your business demands it.
Comparison
Offshore development center vs other models
Offshore development center | An own entity with an in-house team abroad | Staff augmentation | Build-operate-transfer | |
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What you need before hiring starts | Roles go live on your kickoff call | Entity registration, payroll setup, an HR function, and an office | The vendor draws from an existing bench | Contract terms and the transfer plan agreed up front |
Who employs the engineers | On The Spot Development, until you choose to hire them directly | You | The vendor | The vendor, until the agreed transfer date |
Who sets the hiring bar | You. We prescreen, you decide | You | The vendor, from bench availability | You |
Cost structure | Engineer's gross salary, fully visible, plus a fixed management fee | Salary plus your own overhead | Marked-up hourly or monthly blended rate | Monthly fee plus a transfer payment |
Practical scale ceiling | 2 to 100+ engineers | Limited by your local operations capacity | Limited by the vendor's available bench | Set by the transfer plan |
Exit terms | Buyout right available from day one, not tied to a term or milestone | Not applicable, the team is already yours | Commonly a non-solicitation clause with no price attached | Transfer at a pre-agreed milestone, on the vendor's schedule |
Strategic goal | Fill open roles | Add capacity | Accelerate delivery | Build a local presence |
Offshore development center
An own entity with an in-house team abroad
Staff augmentation
Build-operate-transfer
What you need before hiring starts
Roles go live on your kickoff call
Entity registration, payroll setup, an HR function, and an office
The vendor draws from an existing bench
Contract terms and the transfer plan agreed up front
Who employs the engineers
On The Spot Development, until you choose to hire them directly
You
The vendor
The vendor, until the agreed transfer date
Who sets the hiring bar
You. We prescreen, you decide
You
The vendor, from bench availability
You
Cost structure
Engineer's gross salary, fully visible, plus a fixed management fee
Salary plus your own overhead
Marked-up hourly or monthly blended rate
Monthly fee plus a transfer payment
Practical scale ceiling
2 to 100+ engineers
Limited by your local operations capacity
Limited by the vendor's available bench
Set by the transfer plan
Exit terms
Buyout right available from day one, not tied to a term or milestone
Not applicable, the team is already yours
Commonly a non-solicitation clause with no price attached
Transfer at a pre-agreed milestone, on the vendor's schedule
Strategic goal
Fill open roles
Add capacity
Accelerate delivery
Build a local presence
Transparent Pricing
What does an offshore development center cost?
Engineering salary
Fixed management fee
Full visibility into total monthly salary per engineer from day one
The management fee is fixed in the contract and covers the full operational side of the team in Poland.
A buyout option from day one to hire engineers directly into your company with a fixed process defined in the contract
Success stories
Scaling a team for a sportstech platform
Expanding an engineering team for a global sports product
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Dedicated team for a venture capital-funded startup
Building and supporting a 17+ team for a VC-backed startup in mobile AI
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Development team for an AI‑driven cybersecurity startup
Building and scaling a 25‑person team in Poland for a VC-backed startup.
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Offshore team for a clientflow management platform
Extending the R&D team behind a CRM and FinTech platform for small businesses
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Dedicated team for a fintech & enterprise AI company
Building and growing an engineering team in Poland
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Testimonials
They have taken care of many operational and administrative aspects of employment, including employee welfare, equipment, HR processes, and ongoing talent acquisition.
Dor Atias
Co-Founder & CPO
The support they provide for the team is also perfect: we spend 0 time thinking about payrolls, hardware, and all other nuances.
Adam Stevens
CEO & Co-Founder
On The Spot Development has helped the client reduce their costs by 2X and speed up their development. The team has delivered high-quality work. On The Spot Development always delivers on time.
Ami Sirkis
CEO
On The Spot Development has provided us with permanent team members.
Boaz Adato
Head of engineering guild
Growth opportunities
Our engineering community
TechSpot
Tech events in Poland for everyone interested in software architecture and systems design. Like-minded people, top experts from leading companies, and a big engineering community.
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FAQ
Frequently asked
questions
What should I look for when choosing an offshore development center provider?
Ask three questions: what exactly are you paying for, who employs the engineers, and what happens if you want to stop. A provider that shows the engineer's actual salary, keeps its own fee fixed, and does not tie your exit to a term or a milestone has no financial interest in your dependency.
What are the risks of using an offshore development center?
The main risks are a falling hiring bar, attrition, IP exposure in a new jurisdiction, and vendor lock-in. Each has a structural answer: you approve every hire, retention is the provider's operational responsibility, contracts assign IP to you, and a buyout right available from day one removes lock-in.
Offshore development center or staff augmentation, which do I need?
Staff augmentation adds capacity for a defined period, with specialists the vendor has already hired, billed at a blended rate. An offshore development center builds a R&D center of your own, hired to your bar. If the work outlasts a year and the team will grow, the second model costs less and holds more context.
How is an offshore development center different from build-operate-transfer?
Build-operate-transfer moves the team to you at a pre-agreed milestone set by the vendor. An offshore development center with On The Spot Development gives you the buyout right from the first day of the engagement, with no term and no transfer plan. You take the team in-house when your business needs it.
Which companies let you buy out the offshore team?
Most vendor contracts restrict hiring the team directly, and the restriction usually lifts at a milestone the vendor defines. On The Spot Development makes the buyout right available from day one, without a term or a transfer plan.
How long does it take to build an offshore development center in Poland?
The first prescreened shortlist reaches you in 3-5 working days of positions going live. Legal setup, office, and equipment run in parallel with hiring, so the first engineers start without waiting for infrastructure.
What is the typical monthly cost of a senior developer in Poland?
Your cost has two visible parts: the engineer's gross salary, exactly as contracted, and a fixed management fee covering recruitment, HR, payroll, legal, office, and benefits. There is no percentage margin on top. On The Spot Development will build a breakdown for your specific roles and seniority levels.
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