Vetted senior engineers on a monthly retainer, working as an extension of your in-house team.
Hiring a permanent engineer in the US, UK or Gulf takes months and costs more once you count recruiters, benefits and overhead. A dedicated team gives you senior developers inside two weeks, working in your repositories, your standups and your process, billed per person per month. You assign the work, you interview the people, and you scale the team as your roadmap changes. Cost runs 40 to 60 percent below an equivalent local hire. See the full breakdown in our software development cost guide.
What every engagement includes
A dedicated development team is a group of vetted senior engineers hired on a monthly retainer to work only on your product as an extension of your in-house team. You assign their tickets, they join your standups and your codebase, and you scale the headcount by the month. Timeline Digital staffs these teams from Pakistan with four to six hours of timezone overlap, at 40 to 60 percent below an equivalent in-house hire. A senior full-stack engineer runs roughly $3,000 to $5,000 per month, all in, and you can start with a single developer.
From role definition to daily delivery, with you in control at every step.
You tell us the stack, the seniority and how many engineers you need. We define each role against your existing team, then send a shortlist of vetted candidates with real code samples. You interview them directly. No middle layer hides the people who will write your code.
The team joins your repositories, your ticketing tool, your Slack and your standups. They use your branching rules, your code review process and your definition of done. We adapt to how your in-house engineers already work rather than imposing our own process on you.
Engineers work with a fixed four to six hour overlap with your timezone, join your standups live and respond inside your working day. You assign tickets directly. We are not a vendor you brief once a month, we are people on your board moving cards every day.
Need a second backend engineer for a heavy quarter or a QA specialist for a release push? We add them inside two weeks. When the work eases, you scale back. The retainer flexes with your roadmap instead of locking you into a fixed headcount.
A permanent senior hire in the US, UK, UAE, Canada or Australia takes two to four months to find and costs a recruiter fee on top of salary, benefits, equipment and office space. If the roadmap changes or a project ends, you carry the severance and the awkward conversation. A dedicated engineer carries none of that. We employ them, we pay their benefits, and you pay one monthly fee that stops when you no longer need the role.
The other reason teams extend rather than hire is speed of access to a skill. If you need a Flutter engineer for a mobile push or a DevOps specialist for a migration, a permanent hire is the wrong tool. You want that skill for a quarter, not forever. A dedicated team lets you add the exact role for exactly as long as the work lasts, then release it. For one-off product builds with a defined endpoint, our software development outsourcing model fits better, and we will tell you honestly which one suits your situation.
Senior developers in ASP.NET Core, NestJS on Node.js, Laravel and Python. They own services end to end: data modeling, API design, queues and background jobs, not just ticket closing.
React, Next.js and TypeScript specialists who match your component conventions and design system rather than introducing a parallel style your team has to maintain.
Flutter and React Native developers for cross-platform apps, plus native Kotlin and Swift when a feature needs it. They ship to the App Store and Play Store under your accounts.
Manual and automated test engineers who write regression suites, set up CI test gates and catch defects before your release, not after a customer reports them.
Engineers for CI/CD pipelines, Docker, AWS, Azure and GCP, monitoring and on-call runbooks. They keep your deploys boring and your uptime steady.
Add a senior lead who runs sprint planning, reviews pull requests and keeps architecture consistent when you want the team to run with less of your own oversight.
A part-time product owner or UI/UX designer when the team needs direction or screens, billed at the hours you actually use rather than a full seat.
Pakistan time gives a working overlap with the UK, Europe, the Gulf and the US East Coast. You get live conversation during your day, not answers that arrive overnight.
Three ways to get software built. Here is how they compare on the things that matter.
| Factor | Dedicated Team | Fixed Project | In-House Hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Ongoing roadmap, changing scope | Defined build with an endpoint | Long-term core team |
| Time to start | About 2 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks | 2 to 4 months |
| Monthly cost per senior dev | $3,000 to $5,000 | Folded into project price | $9,000 to $15,000 all in |
| Who manages the work | You, day to day | We do, against scope | You do |
| Scope flexibility | Change freely each sprint | Fixed, change orders apply | Fully flexible |
| Scale up or down | By the month | Not applicable | Hire and fire cycle |
| Commitment | Rolling monthly | Per project | Permanent employment |
Costs vary by stack and seniority. Tell us the roles you need and we will quote the exact monthly figure.
A dedicated development team is a group of engineers hired on a monthly retainer to work only on your product as an extension of your in-house team. You assign their work, they join your standups, your repositories and your tools, and they report to you day to day. Unlike a fixed-project contract, there is no fixed scope. The team works your backlog as it changes, and you scale the headcount up or down by the month as your roadmap shifts.
The terms overlap heavily and in practice describe the same engagement. Staff augmentation usually means adding one or two engineers to plug a specific skill gap on an existing team. A dedicated team means a larger group, often with its own QA and DevOps, working on a product or a module together. Both are billed monthly per person, both work inside your process, and both let you avoid the cost and delay of permanent hiring. We offer either, sized to what you actually need.
A senior engineer hired through us in Pakistan typically costs 40 to 60 percent less than an equivalent in-house hire in the US, UK, UAE, Canada or Australia, once you count salary, benefits, recruiter fees, equipment and office overhead. A senior full-stack engineer runs roughly $3,000 to $5,000 per month all in, with no payroll tax, no severance risk and no recruitment lag. You pay one monthly retainer and we carry the employment cost.
We commit to a fixed four to six hour live overlap with your working day, written into the engagement. For UK, European and Gulf clients the overlap covers most of the day. For US East Coast it covers your morning and our afternoon, which is enough for standups, code review and quick decisions. The team shifts hours to meet you rather than asking you to take calls at midnight. You always have live people during your day, not just async replies.
Yes. We pre-vet every candidate with technical screening and a code review, then send you a shortlist with their real work. You run your own technical interview and pick the people you want. If an engineer is not the right fit in the first few weeks, we replace them at no extra cost. You are hiring people, not a black box, so you stay in control of who writes your code.
That is fine and common. You can start with a single engineer to test how we work, then add more once you trust the delivery. We bill per person per month, so a one-developer engagement carries no minimum team size or long lock-in. Many clients start with one backend engineer, add a frontend developer a month later, then a QA specialist before a release. To hire individual engineers directly, see our hire software developers page.
Tell us the roles, the stack and the seniority you need. We will send a shortlist of vetted engineers within days, you interview them yourself, and the right ones start inside two weeks. Begin with one developer or a full team, and scale from there.