A well-knit and perfectly coordinated team
A dedicated developer costs $6,000-9,000 a month. The team starts in 3-5 days when everyone comes from our staff or pool, or within 2 weeks if we hire someone new. Hourly work is billed at $39-55 an hour.
We look at your code, backlog, architecture and third-party services.
We agree on the team, who makes technical decisions and when you check progress.
We pick middle and senior engineers for your stack and handle hiring and onboarding. Engineers already on our staff or in our pool start in 3-5 days, new hires within 2 weeks.
The team takes the top item from your backlog and shows you the result at the sprint review.
A dedicated software development team is a group of developers, QA and delivery roles that works only on your product, month after month. You keep the product decisions, and the team does the engineering.
It's the wrong choice if you need one person for a few weeks, or a small first version with a fixed scope. A fixed-price MVP fits that better.
| Option | Pros | Cons | What you pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated team | Starts in 3-5 days, or within 2 weeks if we hire someone new. People work only on your product, and we handle hiring, onboarding and training. | You pay every month, slow weeks included. Someone on your side still has to set priorities. | $6,000-9,000 per developer a month |
| Your own hires | The team is yours, and what it learns stays in the company. | Hiring can take months before any work starts, and the salaries stay if the plan changes. | Salaries from the day each person starts. nCube puts one US engineer at $189,000-274,000 a year, all costs included. |
| Freelancers | You pay each person's own fee and can start with one person. | You find the people, keep them in sync and test the work. If one person drops out, the work stops. | Each person's hourly or fixed fee |
Each developer costs $6,000-9,000 a month, so a team of three costs $18,000-27,000 a month. If you need a designer, a QA engineer or a project manager, we add them to the estimate. For comparison, nCube publishes $7,500-13,000 per developer a month for Eastern Europe. Our dedicated team cost page has example teams and more market rates.
The team starts in 3-5 days when everyone comes from our staff or pool, or within 2 weeks if we hire someone new. The steps are a review of your code and backlog, the roles, team matching and the first sprint. Have three things ready: access to the code, the backlog and one person who sets priorities. When LIVETAG came back to us after another contractor, we built the team around the stack already in its code. If another team left the project, start with our $3,500 code audit in 5 working days. It tells you what to keep, fix or rebuild before the new team starts.
Choose a dedicated team when you need sustained engineering capacity, coordination or product evolution. For a new founder idea, start with the startup path; for a bounded business workflow, explore software development.
Review the codebase, backlog, architecture and third-party dependencies before committing to a plan. Agree the team roles, technical decision process, sprint reviews and escalation points. You retain business priorities; technical leadership responsibilities are agreed as part of the team scope.
Prioritize a first delivery increment and record inherited defects, missing access and uncertain integrations. Review progress and budget assumptions as the backlog changes. Adding people alone does not guarantee a deadline or a business outcome.
Your Product Owner sets business priorities and accepts increments. The team brings the agreed engineering and delivery roles. Document repository and infrastructure access, code ownership, release authority, handover and post-launch support responsibilities in the engagement.
The project returned with an existing codebase and strict deadlines. Rocketech assembled a stack-matched team, refactored the web and mobile products and improved streaming, payments and e-commerce integrations in two iterations. These are delivered capabilities, not evidence of revenue growth.
Read the Livetag takeover and refactoring caseUse the estimation guide to distinguish a preliminary range from an agreed delivery plan, especially when an inherited codebase still needs assessment.
Describe your product, backlog and constraints in the project estimate form to discuss team scope and delivery risks. Code review and risk assessment require access and an agreed scope; the form does not perform an audit.