We built the offshore company we wished existed when we needed one
Founded by a 4x tech founder who lived the hiring struggle, Full Scale is designed from the ground up to solve the problems that make traditional offshore development unreliable: broken contracts, turnover, and teams that don't think like owners.
The problem that started it all
Matt Watson founded Full Scale in 2018 after years of startup frustration.
As a serial founder and CTO, he knew the playbook: find great engineers, ship fast, stay close to customers. But hiring senior developers fast enough to keep pace with growth? That was the bottleneck every time.
Traditional recruiting was too slow. Freelancers were unreliable. Agencies were expensive and didn't feel like part of the team. And offshore firms? The quality was inconsistent, communication was painful, and developers cycled through projects every few months.
So Matt decided to build something better. An offshore development company that engineering teams would actually want to work with.
We rebuilt offshore development from first principles
Most offshore firms optimize for one thing: filling seats cheaply. That creates broken incentives: high turnover, low engagement, and teams that treat your product like a ticket queue.
We designed Full Scale around a different model: long-term employment, respect-first culture, and training developers to think like product owners.
Full-Time Employment Model
Every developer is a regularized employee with benefits, paid time off, and long-term career growth.
Bench Pay Policy
We pay developers even when they're between projects.
Client Success & Dev Leadership
Every client is supported by a dedicated Client Success Manager and internal Development Leads who provide ongoing mentorship, code quality oversight, and performance reviews.
Respect-First Culture
We hire full-time developers, treat them like professionals, and give them the tools to succeed.
Transparency Without Micromanagement
Our proprietary client portal gives you visibility into time tracking, attendance, and performance metrics, so you always know how your team is doing.
Flexible Contracts
Simple, predictable billing and month-to-month flexibility. No long-term lock-ins, no hidden fees, and a single flat rate that covers everything: salary, equipment, benefits, and support.
We don't just hire coders. We train product thinkers.
Most offshore developers are trained to follow tickets. Ours are trained to think beyond the spec, collaborate effectively, and build with business context.
That's what we mean by Product Driven, and it's how we've trained 350+ engineers across dozens of client teams.
What Product Driven looks like in practice:
"The ticket says add a button here."
"What problem is this solving for the user?"
"I finished my assigned tasks."
"What's blocking the team from shipping this feature?"
"I don't know why this was prioritized."
"What metrics will tell us if this worked?"
3 million development hours and counting
Since 2018, we've helped 200+ SaaS companies and product teams scale their engineering capacity without sacrificing quality, velocity, or culture.
Trusted by founders who value reliability, not just cost savings
"It's a fully integrated team. It's just some of the people happen to be living in the Philippines."
- Derrick Leggett, CIO, AMC Theatres
"The capability of the folks that Full Scale has brought to our team has been phenomenal. The Full Scale team has staffed us with top performers in our company, even relative to some of the folks that we have here in the US."
- Dustin Johnson, Co-Founder and CTO, SOTA Cloud
"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."
- Derrick Leggett, CIO, AMC Theatres
Meet the team behind the teams
Matt Watson
CEO/Founder
A serial entrepreneur and former CTO who built Full Scale after personally navigating the challenges of scaling engineering teams.
Brings a product-driven mindset, deep technical experience, and a strong belief that great companies are built by treating people well while solving real problems for customers.
Darrell Blackburn
COO
Leads company operations with a focus on clarity, consistency, and scale.
Oversees delivery, internal systems, and cross-team coordination to ensure both clients and employees are supported as the organization grows.
Gregg Schmedding
CSO
Responsible for revenue growth and long-term client partnerships.
Works closely with technical leaders to understand real business needs and align solutions that support sustainable team growth.
Lloyd Gam
Solutions Architect
Brings over 20 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, and systems design.
Specializes in translating complex business requirements into clear technical direction, supporting teams across modern stacks, and helping organizations build scalable, maintainable solutions.
We're more than a staffing company
The standard offshore factory model treats developers like seats to fill and forgets them the moment the invoice clears. We went the other way. We put real money and real time into the things that make people want to stay, because a team that feels like a team builds better software than a group of strangers logging hours. It starts before anyone's first full-time day, through our software development internships in the Philippines that bring new engineers in and grow them into the team.
Summer party
Once a year we shut things down and take the whole company out for the day. Families come along, kids run around, and people who normally only see each other on a screen finally get to hang out in person. It's the easiest reminder that we actually like working together.
Annual marathon
Every year a big chunk of the team trains for and runs a marathon together. Some people are chasing a personal best and others just want to finish and earn the breakfast after. Either way, we show up for something hard as a group, which turns out to be good practice for the day job too.
Year-end party
We close out every year with a party that's become a bit of a thing around here. The recap above is from the last one. It's how we celebrate the year, thank the people who carried it, and look back at everything the team pulled off.
Giving back
Giving back is built into how we work, not bolted on for a press release. Through the year the team runs community projects in the cities we hire from, from outreach and donation drives to hands-on volunteer days. It matters to the people who work here, so it matters to us.
95% of our team say Full Scale is a great place to work
As a staff augmentation company, employee retention is everything. Our clients want top talent, and they want that talent to stay for the long term. Our job is to make that happen, and have a lot of fun in the process.
We treat engineers as professionals, not resources, and the people on our Philippines team feel it. Great Place to Work surveyed them, and 95% said it's a great place to work, compared to 65% at a typical company in the Philippines.
See the Great Place to Work profile
Let's build your next great team together
We've done this for ourselves and for 200+ companies. Now, we'll do it for you.
Whether you need to scale from 2 to 20 developers or add specialized skills to an existing team, we'll match you with senior engineers who integrate seamlessly and deliver from day one.