(Teams & hiring models)

Hire developers who work the way your team already works

Hire developers one at a time into your stand-ups, as a squad that owns a product outright, or as an offshore team running delivery end to end. The engineers sit in Noida, on your tools, under your review process.

Talk to an engineer What we deliver
Data mesh abstract
Teams & hiring models

(Three ways to buy people)

Most staffing conversations start with a number of engineers and end in disappointment, because the number was never the problem. The real question is who owns the backlog, who reviews the code, and who is accountable when a release slips. Answer that first and the hiring model picks itself.

The pages below set out each model, what it costs you in management time, and the terms that go in the contract: notice, replacement, ownership of the code, and how access is granted and taken away.

(Services)

Pick the hiring model that fits the gap

/

(What we deliver)

Ways clients hire engineers from us

Every model bills as monthly capacity per person, runs on a rolling contract, and carries the same terms on IP, NDAs and notice.

  1. One developer or a handful, joining your stand-ups, your board and your review process. You keep the backlog and the technical direction. Best when the roadmap is already clear and the constraint is simply that there are not enough hands.

  2. Engineers, QA, a designer and a lead who take a product area and run it: estimates, releases, defects and the roadmap conversation. You get outcomes and a demo rather than a queue of tickets to hand out each morning.

  3. A larger standing group in Noida covering several products, with a delivery lead who runs planning, reporting and staffing. Useful once headcount passes the point where one of your managers can hold it all in their head.

  4. React, Node, .NET, Java, Python, Go, Flutter, React Native, Unity and data engineers, screened against the stack you actually run. Shortlists come with code you can read, not a keyword-matched CV.

  5. Two or three days a week of a senior engineer to set architecture, review pull requests and mentor a young team. Cheaper than hiring a principal engineer, and it stops a small team from accumulating decisions nobody can undo.

  6. Short engagements for a migration, an audit response or a launch window. Scoped as a fixed period with a named outcome, so the arrangement ends cleanly instead of drifting into permanent contract staff.

(How we work)

How the work runs

Every engagement is scoped in phases, priced per phase, and reviewed with you at the end of each one.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map the problem, the systems around it and what a good outcome looks like, then scope the work in phases you can stop after.

  2. 02

    Design

    Flows, architecture and interfaces agreed before anyone writes production code.

  3. 03

    Build

    Two-week increments, a working environment you can open, and a demo at the end of each one.

  4. 04

    Testing

    Functional, performance, security and accessibility checks run through the build, not bolted on at the end.

  5. 05

    Launch

    Deployment, monitoring, documentation and the handover your team needs to run it.

  6. 06

    Support

    Fixes, updates and the next set of features, at an agreed monthly capacity.

(Why Team of Keys)

What hiring an offshore team should actually give you

The failure modes are well known: a CV that does not match the person, a developer swapped out mid-sprint, an eight-hour gap where questions go to die. These are the terms we work to instead.

  1. 01

    You interview, you decide

    Shortlists come with a technical interview you run yourself, plus a sample of code the candidate has written. Nobody joins your team on our say-so alone.

  2. 02

    Overlap, not a relay

    The team works Indian hours with a guaranteed overlap window agreed at contract — typically the whole European morning, or a late shift for US eastern time. Handovers are written, so a question asked overnight has an answer by your morning.

  3. 03

    Replacement is a term, not a favour

    If someone is not working out, tell us in the first fortnight and you pay nothing for their time. After that, a replacement is found and overlapped with the outgoing engineer at our cost.

  4. 04

    Your code, your accounts, your IP

    Work happens in your repositories and your cloud. Assignment of IP is signed before anyone starts, NDAs cover the whole team, and access is least-privilege and revoked the day an engineer rolls off.

  5. 05

    Notice you can plan around

    Rolling monthly contracts with 30 days notice either way. Scaling up needs a little more lead time than scaling down, because we would rather introduce the right person than a fast one.

(FAQ)

Questions, answered

Pricing is a monthly rate per engineer, set by seniority and speciality rather than by hour. Rates depend on the stack, the years of experience and the length of the commitment, and a longer engagement costs less per month than a six-week burst. You get a written rate card for the roles you need before any interviews happen.

It depends on the role. Common stacks — React, Node, .NET, Java, Python, QA — usually have people either on the bench or finishing an engagement, so screening and interviews are the pacing item. Scarcer skills such as Unity, embedded C or senior data engineering take longer because we would rather search than substitute.

In staff augmentation, you do: your sprint, your priorities, your definition of done. In a dedicated team, a delivery lead on our side handles planning, leave, performance and reporting, and you work at the level of outcomes. Either way you get a named account contact who is not also the person writing code.

Flag it in the first two weeks and that engineer is not billed. After that, replacement is part of the contract: a new person is screened against the same brief and overlaps with the outgoing one for handover, at our cost. Continuity is protected by documentation, not by one person staying forever.

You do, from the first commit. Assignment of IP and confidentiality are signed before engineers are introduced, and the work sits in your repositories and cloud accounts throughout. Where you need background checks, restricted networks or managed devices, say so at scoping so the team is set up that way from day one.

(Global presence)

Nine countries, one studio behind them.

Every project is designed, built and shipped from one studio.
Turn the globe, or pick a country to see what we deliver there.

NoidaDrag to turn

Studio · Noida, India · --:--

(Next step)

Tell us which roles you are short of

Send the stack, the seniority and the overlap hours you need. You get a rate card and a shortlist to interview, with no obligation to take either.

START

Or write to info@teamofkeys.com · Noida, India