Automotive software development teams for connected, embedded, and beyond.
Hire dedicated senior engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder who co-founded VinSolutions, a SaaS platform for auto dealers. We place engineers in the Philippines who ship connected vehicle, embedded, dealership, and fleet software. Pre-vetted, full-time, and ready in as little as 7 days.
- Inc. 5000 honoreefive years running
- 350+ senior engineerson staff, across every stack
- 200+ companies servedsince 2018
- 700+ engineer placementsinto US software teams
Not a dev shop building it for you. Your automotive team, building with you.
Most automotive software development companies quote you a six- or seven-figure fixed-bid project, build it behind a vendor wall, and hand it back. We staff dedicated senior engineers into your team. You own them, manage them, and keep them.
The turnkey vendor model
The big custom-software shops
- Fixed-bid project, scoped up front, priced in the hundreds of thousands
- Engineers walled off behind an account manager
- 30–40% overhead for layers you never meet
- Hand-off at the end, and the knowledge walks out the door
The Full Scale staff-augmentation model
Dedicated engineers, embedded in your team
- $35/hr fully loaded, scale up or down as the roadmap changes
- Engineers in your standups, Slack, repo, and roadmap
- No vendor wall and no PM tax, you manage them directly
- 93%+ retention means the engineers, and the knowledge, stay
Co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM in the auto industry ($150M+ exit), and founded Stackify
Built by a founder who has shipped and sold real software
Full Scale was founded by Matt Watson, a four-time founder and CTO with 20+ years in software engineering. He co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM platform in the auto industry, acquired for around $150 million, and founded Stackify, a developer-tools company he later sold. He also wrote Product Driven, the engineering-leadership method every Full Scale engineer is trained on.
Full Scale exists because Matt kept hitting the same wall as an operator: good products stall when you can't hire and keep good engineers. That is the problem we solve, and it is why we vet for the senior, product-minded engineers most staffing shops never find.
Engineers experienced across the automotive stack
We don't sell you a pre-built product. We staff engineers who have shipped in these domains before and know where the safety and reliability landmines are.
Connected vehicle & telematics
Telematics platforms, GPS and sensor data pipelines, V2X messaging, and remote diagnostics that hold up in the field.
Embedded & infotainment
In-vehicle infotainment, embedded firmware, real-time systems, and Android Automotive and CarPlay integrations.
Dealership & DMS software
Dealer management systems, inventory and CRM tools, F&I workflows, and the integrations that tie them together.
Fleet & maintenance
Fleet management, route optimization, predictive maintenance, and asset-tracking platforms.
Companion mobile apps
Driver and owner apps, remote start and lock, charging status, and connected-account experiences across iOS and Android.
Automotive data & analytics
Vehicle data warehousing, usage and telemetry analytics, dashboards, and machine-learning pipelines on driving data.
Engineers who build for safety and reliability, not just ship dates
Automotive software doesn't forgive shortcuts. Our engineers have worked inside environments where a defect is a recall and an unpatched device is a liability, and they treat safety and security as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
Built by the founder of the #1 automotive CRM
The #1 CRM in the automotive industry
Full Scale founder Matt Watson co-founded VinSolutions, dealer software that became the #1 CRM in the US automotive industry before it was acquired for around $150 million. Automotive software is in our DNA, and it is the kind of experience behind the engineers we place on your team.
Building an automotive-service marketplace from scratch
Slydyn, a consumer marketplace for auto-service appointments, had no in-house CTO or engineering team. Full Scale built the entire product from scratch and supplied the technical leadership the founder didn't have in-house.
“They might be on your paper, but they're my team. They're mine.”Kim Cowan, President
Read the case study →The automotive specialists on our bench
Embedded engineers
C, C++, RTOS, firmware
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Telematics / IoT
Device data, MQTT, pipelines
Mobile (companion apps)
iOS, Android, Flutter
Data / ML engineers
Telemetry, predictive models
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
QA automation
Test coverage for safety paths
Solutions architects
System & data design
The automotive stack our engineers work in
Embedded
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Why most offshore automotive teams fail, and how to not be one of them
The mistake isn't going offshore. It's hiring the cheapest developer you can find and hoping reliability sorts itself out. I call that cheapshoring, and in automotive software it's how you end up with a field failure and a rewrite.
Vehicle software is unforgiving. You need engineers who understand that a missed edge case is a recall and an unsigned firmware update is a security hole. That's a hiring bar, not a rate, which is the whole reason we accept under 3% of applicants and train every engineer on the Product Driven method.
From call to coding in as little as 7 days
- 1Tell us the automotive roles and stack you need
- 2We match pre-vetted engineers from our bench
- 3You interview and pick your team
- 4They start in your standups, repo, and roadmap
Automotive Software Development Services, answered
- Do your engineers have automotive and embedded experience?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have shipped connected vehicle, embedded, telematics, and dealership software, and treat safety and reliability as architecture decisions, not a checkbox.
- Is this a fixed-bid project or a dedicated team?
- A dedicated team. We are a staff augmentation partner, so you get engineers embedded in your team at $35/hr, not a turnkey project quote.
- How fast can an automotive team start?
- As little as seven days from the first call to engineers in your standups, drawing from a pre-vetted bench.
- Who owns the code and the IP?
- You do, from day one. Our engineers work in your repositories under your process.
Staffing engineering teams across every industry
Automotive engineering guides
IoT software development
Our sibling practice for connected devices and telematics.
Staff augmentation vs. a dev shop
Why owning the team beats handing off the build.
The Product Driven method
How we train engineers to think like owners.
Cheapshoring: the automotive version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.