For startups and growing companies
Grow one developer into a product pod
Add testing and design around the developer you have, in the same office, and you have a product function instead of three separate hires.
- The SoTalented Office Guarantee
- Works in your time zone
- $0 until you hire
Sound familiar.
- Your developer is also the tester and the designer.
- Features ship half-tested, and the UI is whatever was quickest.
- You can’t tell whether the next hire should be design, QA or another developer.
For example
Say your developer has shipped for six months and is now writing the code, testing it and designing the screens. The work gets done, just not well in all three.
Add a QA engineer and a designer in the same satellite office. Your developer goes back to building, testing happens during the sprint, and designs arrive before the code instead of after it.
Three seats, one office, one invoice, and a product function you can keep growing.
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
Product designer
Priced on a call
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 next seats are 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.
Freelance help, or a pod of your own.
A freelance designer or tester fills the gap for a sprint. Here’s what changes when they’re part of the team.
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.
Do I have to add all the seats at once?
No. Add the seat that unblocks the most first, then the next when it’s working.
Will they work as one team with my developer?
Yes. Same office, same tools, same sprints, all dedicated to your company.
What does the designer cost?
Ask us on a call. The developer and QA engineer prices are on their role pages.
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
Release on schedule, tested
Testing happens in the last two days of the sprint, by whoever has time.
Read the use case: Release on schedule, testedWhat you’d set up
QA engineer
For startups and growing companies
Extend your runway without cutting the team
You’ve just raised, or the board wants a longer runway, and the roadmap still needs more engineers.
Read the use case: Extend your runway without cutting the teamWhat you’d set up
Full-stack developer, QA engineer
For growing companies
The backlog your team never reaches
Internal tools and integrations keep sliding to next sprint.
Read the use case: The backlog your team never reachesWhat you’d set up
Full-stack developer
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.