Summary: A Series B US payments company was spending $6M+ annually on a 15-person engineering team but couldn't scale fast enough to compete. Local hiring was taking 90+ days per senior engineer, and the product roadmap was 6 months behind schedule.
Expedite Software Services established a dedicated offshore development centre in India — scaling from 8 to 40 engineers in 6 months and tripling release velocity while cutting engineering costs by 50%.
Build a dedicated offshore development centre in India as an extension of the US engineering team — not a separate vendor.
Grow from an initial 8-person team to 40 engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and DevOps within 6 months.
Reduce fully-loaded engineering costs by 45–50% compared to US-only hiring while maintaining senior-level talent quality.
Move from bi-weekly to continuous deployment with a near-24-hour development cycle leveraging time zone overlap.
Ensure all offshore operations meet PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance for payment processing infrastructure.
Complete IP assignment, code escrow, and enterprise-grade security controls from day one of the engagement.
Java (Spring Boot), Golang, Python, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka
React.js, React Native, TypeScript, Redux, Storybook
AWS (EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB), Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD
Stripe APIs, tokenisation, PCI-DSS vault, fraud detection (ML)
Apache Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, Looker
GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Cypress, k6, Postman, Playwright
US-based senior engineers taking 90+ days to hire — while competitors were shipping features weekly with 100+ person teams.
Fully-loaded US engineer cost of $250K+ making it impossible to build a 40-person team within the $8M annual budget.
Product roadmap 6 months behind schedule — 12 critical features needed for enterprise sales were not yet started.
PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance required for payment processing — adding complexity to any offshore staffing model.
Phase 1: 8 engineers (Month 1) → Phase 2: 20 engineers (Month 3) → Phase 3: 40 engineers (Month 6) — organic scaling.
Offshore team fully embedded in client's Agile process — shared Jira, daily standups, same sprint cadence, shared Slack.
Dedicated VPN, PCI-compliant development environment, tokenisation-only access to payment data, quarterly audits.
4-hour daily overlap between US and India teams — enabling near-24-hour development cycles and faster iterations.
Dedicated offshore delivery manager + tech lead — single point of accountability for velocity, quality, and escalation.
Structured 4-week onboarding with pair programming, architecture deep-dives, and codebase walkthroughs per engineering pod.
Sprint velocity tripled from 40 to 120+ story points — moving from bi-weekly to continuous deployment.
40-engineer offshore team at $3M annually vs. $6M+ for a 15-person US team — 3x more capacity at half the cost.
Full offshore development centre operational in 6 months — all engineers sprint-ready within 4 weeks of joining.
Offshore centre passed PCI-DSS Level 1 audit — zero findings, fully compliant payment data handling from Month 1.
All 12 enterprise features delivered within 8 months — unblocking $4M in annual enterprise contract pipeline.
Offshore team retention at 95% across Year 1 — well above the industry average of 78% for offshore engagements.