Offshore engineers in the Philippines who join your team and stay
Senior engineers work in your repo, your sprints, and your standups, full-time. Full Scale handles recruiting, payroll, and retention in the background, so the team you build is the team you keep.
It's a fully integrated team. It's just some of the people happen to be living in the Philippines.
When offshore goes wrong, it's almost always the same reasons
Most offshore teams fall apart because the model is built for short-term contracting, not embedded teams. Here's what goes wrong, and what we do differently in the Philippines.
Engineers leave every nine months
There's no team to belong to, so developers churn between projects. The institutional knowledge walks out the door each time.
Multi-year tenures on the same team
Filipino engineers stay on a single client team for years. The AMC Theatres .NET team we staff has been embedded for years and still is.
Twelve hours of time-zone gap
U.S. to India is roughly a half-day apart. Standups become async emails, code reviews stretch to 48 hours, and small decisions take a week.
Scheduled daily overlap with your hours
Our engineers work shifts that overlap your business day. Live standups, real-time code reviews, and decisions in minutes instead of days.
Communication friction from language and culture
Engineers who can write code but can't drive a product conversation are common in offshore, and the friction shows up in every meeting.
English-first, U.S.-aligned working culture
The Philippines is the third-largest English-speaking country in the world. Product conversations work the same way they do with your in-house team.
Project shops deliver and walk
A typical offshore vendor ships a release, invoices, and disappears. The code outlives the engagement and nobody knows it anymore.
Dedicated developers, embedded for the long haul
We staff individual engineers who join your team full-time, push to your repo, and stay through every release. The work never gets handed off to a separate project team.
Pooled resources rotated between clients
Body-shop agencies rotate the same developers across multiple clients, so the person you onboarded in January is gone by March.
One developer, your team, no rotation
Every engineer is dedicated to a single client. Same person in your standups all year. Replacement only happens if you ask for it.
Every Full Scale engagement runs the right-hand column by default. That's why the teams stay.
Staff augmentation is the hiring model that actually scales engineering
You hire dedicated developers who report up to your engineering leadership, the same as any hire you'd make locally. Full Scale handles recruiting, payroll, benefits, and HR in the Philippines, so the only thing left on your plate is the engineering.
That long-term model is the version of offshore development that works. The code outlives the contract, and the engineers know your system because they have been on the team for years, not weeks. It's the opposite of project outsourcing or short-term contracting.
- Vetted senior-level engineers
- Direct integration with your workflow and sprint cadence
- Clear ownership and accountability
- Predictable monthly costs
Previously founded VinSolutions ($150M+ exit) and Stackify
I built Full Scale because I lived the hiring problem first
In 2018 I needed to hire ten more developers for Stackify, my second startup. Kansas City hiring wasn't going to get me there, so a friend introduced me to developers in the Philippines and we opened a small office together. By 2021, that team had grown past 20 people and was central to why Stackify exited.
Those developers sat in the same Slack threads as my Kansas City engineers, pushed to the same repo, and ran standups on the same cadence. The agency handled payroll, benefits, and HR in the background so I could focus on the actual work. That was software development staff augmentation, before it had a name on our website.
Friends started asking how to access the same developer pool. Full Scale grew out of that, and we have now run staff augmentation engagements for more than 200 U.S. companies, including the dedicated .NET team behind AMC Theatres. The model that worked for Stackify is the model we run for clients today.
Engineers trained on AI and Product Driven principles
Most offshore engagements stall because the developer placed on your team thinks like a contractor, not a product owner. They wait for tickets, write what they are told, and disappear when the sprint ends without leaving anything behind.
Our engineers are trained to do the opposite. They are hired and developed inside the Product Driven framework, and they use modern AI tooling as part of their daily workflow. That combination is rare, and it is the difference between an engineer who acts like part of your team and one who acts like a vendor's resource.
Product Driven engineering
Our engineers are trained on the five pillars from Matt's book: Vision, Focus, Clarity, Ownership, and Courage. The result is developers who push back on bad product decisions, ask whether a ticket should exist before writing it, and own the outcome of what ships. They join your team as real engineers, not as order takers waiting for the next ticket.
Read Product Driven, the bookAI as a thinking partner
Every engineer on our bench works with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor every day. They use AI to explore options, scaffold the boring parts, generate test suites, and review their own pull requests before a human ever sees them. Judgment stays with the engineer, the grunt work moves to the machine.
AI without product thinking is just a slop machine. We hire engineers who understand what they're building and why, then hand the boring parts to the machine.
How AMC Theatres scales engineering teams with Full Scale
A Fortune 500 client runs a fully integrated team through Full Scale, embedded alongside their in-house engineers.
For any long-term staffing relationship to evolve into a partnership, you have to start with trust. You have to lead with trust through the process and adjust with trust when things go wrong.
From discovery call to active engineers
in days, not months
Delivery Assessment
We analyze your roadmap, technical stack, team structure, and immediate needs.
Engineer Matching
We match you with pre-vetted senior engineers aligned to your technical requirements and team culture.
Direct Integration
Your engineers work inside your repo, sprint cadence, tools, and communication platforms from day one.
Continuous Support
We provide ongoing performance management, and you can add or release engineers with 30 days' notice.
Senior engineers at $35 per hour, fully loaded
The rate covers the engineer's pay plus recruiting, payroll, benefits, HR, equipment, and office space in the Philippines. There are no recruiting fees and no surprise line items.
A five-person US development team costs about $1.17M in its first year once salaries, benefits, recruiting, and turnover are counted. The same team at Full Scale runs $364,000. That difference is why clients keep their teams for years instead of cutting them at the next budget review.
See the full pricing breakdownWhat US companies say about Full Scale
Real results from product-driven companies across SaaS, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise.
"With Full Scale's developers, we transformed the commercial real estate landscape. Their team's proficiency in agile development and proactive communication accelerated our product release, driving value for our customers."
Jeff Weiner
Realquantum
"Full Scale has been a cornerstone in the success of our lending platform. Their development team's exceptional skill set and commitment to quality have not only met but exceeded our expectations in every project."
Andy Kallenbach
LendingStandard
Dedicated developers across
your entire tech stack
Our engineers work across modern development stacks with the tools and workflows you already use.
Frontend Development
React, Angular, Vue.js, JavaScript, TypeScript
Backend Development
Node.js, Python, PHP, C#/.NET, Ruby on Rails, Java
Mobile Development
React Native, Flutter, iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin)
DevOps & Infrastructure
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes
QA & Testing
Automated and manual testing, performance testing
UI/UX Design
User research, wireframes, visual design, prototypes
Meet some of our engineers in the Philippines
Get to know the talented engineers and specialists who power our clients' success.
We invest in the communities our engineers come from
Full Scale exists because of Philippine engineering talent. So every year the whole company takes a paid day to give back to the places we hire from, from donating computers to schools to planting mangroves to funding animal shelters. We call it CSR Day. It isn't charity to us and it isn't a press release. It's the same reason our people stay: we treat the Philippines as somewhere we belong, not somewhere we pull talent out of.
Frequently asked questions
The questions engineering leaders ask before they book a call.