For startups and growing companies
Extend your runway without cutting the team
Add the engineers the roadmap needs in your satellite office in India, and keep everyone you already have.
- The SoTalented Office Guarantee
- Works in your time zone
- $0 until you hire
Sound familiar.
- The roadmap needs three more engineers and the budget covers one hired locally.
- Every board meeting comes back to burn.
- You’re choosing between hiring slower and cutting somewhere else.
For example
Say you’ve closed a seed round, the plan needs three more engineers, and the board is asking about burn. Hire them locally and the runway gets shorter. Don’t hire them and the roadmap does.
Add the seats in your satellite office instead: a full-stack developer and a QA engineer, dedicated to your company, working in your repositories, your sprints and your time zone. Seats cost up to 50% less than local hires, all-inclusive, so the same budget carries a bigger team for more months.
Nobody on the current team goes, and the roadmap keeps moving.
What you’d set up.
Every seat is dedicated to your company and never shared. Prices are per person, per month, all-inclusive, and differ by level.
Full-stack developer
from $2,000 a month
What they’ll own
- Takes a ticket from design to deployed, UI through API and database
- Builds internal tools and integrates third-party services
- Maintains production and fixes bugs across the codebase
- Works in your repositories, your sprints and your code reviews
- Flags risk early, not at the deadline
QA engineer
from $1,500 a month
What they’ll own
- Runs test plans and regression before each release
- Builds and maintains automation in Playwright, Cypress or Selenium
- Logs bugs with steps, expected versus actual, and environment
- Works with your developers in the sprint, not after it
- Keeps the test suite current as the product changes
Start with one seat and add the next when it’s working. $0 until your first hire starts, and 30 days notice to scale down.
What’s inside every seatYour first engineer is working in about three weeks.
Here is exactly what happens after you say yes, week by week.
Week one
We find them
- We do
- Write the job description, source, screen and run the technical assessment.
- You do
- Brief us on the role and sign the brief.
Week two
You choose
- We do
- Check English and time zone, then run background verification, references and the offer.
- You do
- Interview a shortlist that has already passed the assessment, and choose.
Week three
They start
- We do
- Contracts, benefits, desk, equipment and software access, all in place.
- You do
- Welcome them.
Day one
They start.
You start paying here. Until then, you pay nothing.
Cheaper than local, without the freelancer risk.
Freelancers stretch a budget too, until one disappears. Here’s how a dedicated seat compares.
Compare with
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
The SoTalented Office Guarantee
Hire with confidence. The risk is ours.
Four promises behind every person who joins your office.
Right person
What if they are not the right fit?
We replace them inside 30 days, free.
No questions asked. Tell us it is not working, and the replacement is on us.
Right office
Where will they actually work?
In a premium SoTalented Satellite Office in India.
WeWork-grade workspace in Bangalore or Jaipur, with reliable internet, power backup, IT support and security in place.
Right management
Who looks after them once they start?
We do, across 42 touchpoints.
You interview and approve. Payroll, HR, reviews, growth and a clean exit are ours.
Right terms
What am I signing up for?
Nothing, until your first hire starts.
Then one invoice a month, no long-term contract, and 30 days notice to scale down.
How much further does the budget go?
It depends on the roles and levels. Seats cost up to 50% less than local hires, all-inclusive, and every role’s price is on its page, so you can do the sum for your own plan.
Will they work as part of my team?
Yes. They’re dedicated to your company, never shared, and work in your tools, your standups and your time zone.
What if a hire doesn’t work out?
We replace them inside 30 days, free. After that there’s no lock-in, and you can scale down on 30 days notice.
What does a seat cost?
It depends on the role and the level. Every price is all-inclusive: salary, benefits, payroll, compliance, office, IT and equipment, on one invoice. Each role’s bands are on its page.
Can I start with one seat?
Yes. You pay nothing until your first hire starts, add seats when it works, and give 30 days notice to scale down.
Related use cases.
For startups and growing companies
The role that’s been open too long
The role has been open for months, and two of your engineers are covering it.
Read the use case: The role that’s been open too longWhat you’d set up
Backend developer
For startups and growing companies
Grow one developer into a product pod
Your first hire is working. Now they need testing and design around them.
Read the use case: Grow one developer into a product podWhat you’d set up
Full-stack developer, QA engineer, product designer
For startups and growing companies
Answer the board without building the spreadsheet
Every board meeting starts with someone pulling numbers out of four tools by hand.
Read the use case: Answer the board without building the spreadsheetWhat you’d set up
Data analyst
Start with one seat.
Tell us your situation on a call. We’ll tell you honestly whether a satellite office fits it, and what it would cost.