Top 10 Offshore Software Development Companies 2026

Intro

You are not picking an offshore software development company because you ran out of US engineers to interview. You are picking one because you already know what hiring in the US looks like. It takes three to six months to get from a job posting to an accepted offer, and that offer usually lands about twenty percent above what you budgeted. The senior engineer you actually wanted took a counter, so your shortlist is down to two juniors and a contractor.

I have run engineering at three companies and personally hired developers in Russia, Latin America, and the Philippines. It is also why the best offshore developers come from the Philippines, in my experience. Full Scale is the fourth one. I built it because the model the rest of the industry was using was broken. Most offshore shops are project shops. They sell you a fixed scope, hand you a team you cannot communicate with directly, and put a middleman between you and every decision. Three months later you have software that almost works and a relationship that does not.

This post ranks ten offshore software development companies a CTO or technical founder might actually consider in 2026. The order reflects how the model works, not which logo is biggest. Some of these firms are enormous. Some are smaller. The criteria I use are the ones I would use if I were on the buying side.

If you want the operational details on how an offshore engagement actually works, read the offshoring manual first, then come back here.

What to look for in an offshore software development company

Before the list, here is the rubric, the same one I lean on when I think about what to look for in a software development company. Most “top 10” posts skip this step and that is why they read like ad copy. Pick the wrong firm on the wrong criteria and you spend a year unwinding the engagement.

Pricing transparency. A real offshore firm tells you the hourly rate before the sales call. If the answer is “let’s set up a discovery session to scope your needs,” that is a project shop. Project shops bill at agency rates and pay developers a fraction of that. The math gets worse over time, not better.

Dedicated versus shared. Are the engineers full-time on your work, or are they billing fifteen hours a week to your project and the rest to three others? A dedicated engineer thinks like an employee. A shared one thinks like a consultant who is running out the clock.

Retention. Ask the firm what their annual developer turnover is. If they cannot answer the question, the answer is high. The whole point of offshore is institutional knowledge that compounds. A team that turns over every nine months never gets there.

Time-zone overlap. “Async-first” is a real model, but you still need some daily overlap for code review, standups, and the conversations where someone tells you the spec is wrong. Three to four hours of overlap is the minimum for most teams.

Engineering quality and seniority mix. A team with one senior architect and four juniors is not a senior team. Ask for the mix. Ask for years of experience. Ask whether you get to interview the engineers before they start.

Communication. English fluency is the floor, not the ceiling. The deeper question is whether a developer will push back when the spec is wrong and ask questions when they do not understand. Cultures vary on this and it matters more than the hourly rate.

Reference clients. Anyone can put a logo on a homepage. Ask for two reference clients you can actually talk to. If the answer is “we cannot share that,” the answer is they do not have any.

The 10 firms at a glance

Here is the shortlist before the detail. Skim the table, then read the writeups for the firms that fit how you want to work.

Company	Headquarters	Engineers	Model	Best for
1. Full Scale	Kansas City, USA (Cebu)	350+	Dedicated staff aug	Long-term dedicated teams for companies with in-house leadership
2. BairesDev	San Francisco, USA	4,000+	Staff aug + delivery	Latin America time-zone alignment at large scale
3. EPAM Systems	Pennsylvania, USA	~63,000	Engineering + consulting	Enterprise digital transformations
4. GlobalLogic	San Jose, USA	~35,000	Digital engineering	Connected-product engineering inside a stable parent
5. Vention	New York, USA	3,000+	Custom dev for startups	Venture-backed startups wanting Eastern European talent
6. FPT Software	Hanoi, Vietnam	30,000+	Enterprise IT services	A large Asia partner with a strong Japan presence
7. ELEKS	Estonia (Ukraine, Poland)	2,000+	Custom dev + consulting	Experienced Eastern European mid-market work
8. ScienceSoft	Texas, USA	~750	IT consulting + custom dev	A US contracting entity with Eastern European delivery
9. Andela	New York, USA	175,000+ network	Talent marketplace	Hiring individual engineers with wide geographic reach
10. Turing	Palo Alto, USA	Large network	AI-vetted matching + AI services	AI-driven matching and LLM-adjacent engineering

1. Full Scale

Founded: 2018 | Headquartered: Kansas City, USA (delivery in Cebu, Philippines) | Engineers: 350+ | Client billing rate: $30-$40/hour | Model: Dedicated staff augmentation

Full Scale builds long-term dedicated development teams for tech companies that already have engineering leadership in-house. We are not a project shop. We do not bid on six-month scope-of-work contracts. We hire a senior Filipino engineer, integrate them with your existing team, and they stay on your work full-time for the long haul. The average Full Scale engagement runs for years, not months.

I co-founded Full Scale in 2018 after running into the same problem at every company I built. US engineering hiring is slow, expensive, and competitive. The traditional offshore model is broken in different ways. The thing that actually works is hiring senior engineers in the Philippines to work directly for the customer, with no middleman. They are on the same Slack, the same standups, and the same code reviews as the in-house team.

The numbers behind that pitch are concrete. Full Scale has 350+ employees in the Philippines, 93%+ annual developer retention, and has been on the Inc. 5000 four years running. AMC Theatres has built a global engineering organization with us where developers in Cebu are full AMC engineers, not contractors. LendingStandard came to us after their local Kansas City hiring stalled and now runs roughly 30% of US affordable multifamily property loans on software our joint team built. We have placed 500+ developers with clients since we started.

Our pricing is on the homepage. Our engineers’ senior experience ranges from 7 to 15+ years. You interview every candidate before they join your team. You can hire developers in the Philippines for almost any modern stack. And the engineers are trained on Product Driven, the engineering philosophy from my 2025 book. They think about the product the same way the in-house team does, instead of waiting for tickets.

Best for: US tech companies with existing engineering leadership who want a long-term dedicated team rather than a project. Companies that value engineering ownership and direct communication over a vendor relationship.

2. BairesDev

Founded: 2009 | Headquartered: San Francisco, USA | Engineers: 4,000+ | Model: Staff augmentation and end-to-end delivery

BairesDev is the largest pure-play offshore software development firm out of Latin America and one of the most recognizable names in the category. The delivery teams are spread across more than fifty countries with a heavy concentration in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil. Annual revenue is reported around $800 million. The model is similar to Full Scale’s in that engineers work directly with the client, but the scale is an order of magnitude bigger and the pricing reflects it.

The trade-off with BairesDev is consistency. A 4,000-engineer firm cannot guarantee the same hands-on relationship a smaller firm can. The vetting is rigorous and the senior engineers are strong, but a Fortune 500 buyer and a Series A startup get very different experiences from the same logo. Time-zone overlap is excellent across the Americas. Rates land in the same ballpark as Full Scale’s senior tier and a bit higher in some geographies.

Best for: Mid-market and enterprise companies that want Latin America time-zone alignment and the comfort of a large established brand.

3. EPAM Systems

Founded: 1993 | Headquartered: Newtown, Pennsylvania, USA | Engineers: ~63,000 | Model: Digital engineering and consulting

EPAM Systems is the closest thing the offshore world has to a public benchmark. It is listed on the NYSE under EPAM and serves Forbes Global 2000 enterprises across financial services, healthcare, media, and travel. The engineering centers are concentrated in Eastern Europe, India, and Latin America, and the company has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing public tech firms in the world.

EPAM is not a staff-aug shop in the way the smaller firms on this list are. It is a digital engineering and AI transformation consultancy that happens to deliver offshore. Engagements are typically multi-million-dollar enterprise deals with a consulting wrapper around the engineering. The rates are higher and the procurement cycle is longer, but the engineers are genuinely senior.

Best for: Enterprise buyers running complex digital transformations who need consulting plus delivery and have the budget for a tier-one brand.

4. GlobalLogic

Founded: 2000 | Headquartered: San Jose, California, USA | Engineers: ~35,000 | Model: Digital engineering services

GlobalLogic was acquired by Hitachi in 2021 for $9.5 billion and now sits inside the Hitachi Group as its digital engineering arm. The focus is design-led product engineering for industrial, automotive, healthcare, and communications clients. Engineering centers span India, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the US.

The Hitachi acquisition has pushed GlobalLogic toward larger and more integrated engagements that combine product design with backend engineering. The firm has continued to grow through additional acquisitions and now reports around 35,000 professionals globally. As with EPAM, this is enterprise tier and not a fit for smaller buyers who want a single dedicated team.

Best for: Enterprise companies building connected products and platforms who value an integrated design-and-engineering approach inside a stable parent company.

5. Vention

Founded: 2002 | Headquartered: New York, USA | Engineers: 3,000+ | Model: Custom software development for startups and growth-stage companies

Vention is the firm formerly known as iTechArt and rebranded in 2023. The positioning is squarely on venture-backed startups and growth-stage companies, and the firm reports having helped over 500 startups build software. Delivery is concentrated in Eastern Europe with offices in twenty-plus cities. The model is closer to an embedded team than a project shop, which is the right shape for the startup audience.

The Eastern European engineering talent pool that Vention draws from is one of the deepest in the world. Time-zone overlap with US East Coast is workable. Rates are higher than the Philippines but the seniority skews high, and the firm has a long track record of building products that go on to raise meaningful capital.

Best for: Venture-backed startups and growth-stage companies who want Eastern European engineering talent and a firm experienced with the startup operating cadence.

6. FPT Software

Founded: 1999 | Headquartered: Hanoi, Vietnam | Engineers: 30,000+ | Model: Enterprise IT services and digital transformation

FPT Software is the largest IT services firm in Vietnam and a public subsidiary of FPT Corporation. Annual revenue is past $2 billion and the firm serves Fortune 500 clients across Japan, the US, and Europe. Japan is FPT’s biggest market and a real differentiator if you sell into Japan or have partners there. The engineering centers are concentrated in Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City.

The Vietnamese talent market has matured significantly in the last decade and rates remain competitive with the Philippines. English fluency varies by team, which is worth probing if direct daily communication is critical. The strength here is the depth of the bench and the established Japan presence.

Best for: Enterprise buyers who want a large established offshore partner with strong Asia presence and competitive rates.

7. ELEKS

Founded: 1991 | Headquartered: Estonia (delivery primarily in Ukraine and Poland) | Engineers: 2,000+ | Model: Custom software development and consulting

ELEKS is one of the longest-tenured firms on this list. It has been delivering offshore software development for over thirty years and has built up an Eastern European engineering bench of more than 2,000 professionals. The firm has delivered 650+ projects across financial services, logistics, healthcare, and energy. ELEKS sits in the middle of the size spectrum, which means clients get more attention than they would at EPAM but with deeper organizational depth than a boutique.

The wartime context in Ukraine has changed how ELEKS operates and the firm has shifted significant delivery to Poland and other European countries to maintain continuity. Anyone evaluating Ukrainian firms in 2026 should ask directly about delivery resilience.

Best for: Mid-market companies that want experienced Eastern European engineering with a longer firm track record than most.

8. ScienceSoft

Founded: 1989 | Headquartered: McKinney, Texas, USA | Engineers: ~750 | Model: IT consulting and custom software development

ScienceSoft is a US-headquartered firm with delivery in Eastern Europe and a focus on mid-market and enterprise custom software, cybersecurity, and data analytics. The firm has been around since 1989 and has built up a reputation for AI engineering, business intelligence, and complex backend work. The US headquarters is meaningful for buyers who want a domestic contracting entity even when the delivery happens offshore.

ScienceSoft is smaller than EPAM or GlobalLogic, which translates to a more attentive engagement model. The trade-off is less geographic redundancy if delivery in one region is disrupted.

Best for: Mid-market companies that want a US-contracting entity with Eastern European delivery and a focus on specialized engineering domains.

9. Andela

Founded: 2014 | Headquartered: New York, USA | Engineers: 175,000+ in the talent network | Model: Talent marketplace

Andela is structurally different from the rest of this list. It is not a software development firm. It is a talent marketplace that connects companies with vetted remote engineers from a network that spans more than 135 countries, with an original heavy emphasis on Africa. Annual revenue is around $264 million and the internal team supporting the marketplace is about 1,300 people. Engineers on the network are independent contractors matched to clients through an AI-powered platform.

The marketplace model is faster for finding individual engineers than a dedicated-team firm is, and the geographic breadth is unmatched. The trade-off is that you are managing the engineer directly rather than working with a firm that handles employment, retention, and team structure on your behalf. For companies that want flexibility over institutional support, that is a feature. For companies that want a managed team, it is a gap.

Best for: Companies hiring individual senior engineers rather than building a long-term dedicated team. Buyers who want geographic flexibility and are comfortable managing the relationship directly.

10. Turing

Founded: 2018 | Headquartered: Palo Alto, California, USA | Engineers: Large remote talent network | Model: AI-vetted engineer matching, with growing AI services arm

Turing is the youngest firm on this list and is positioned at the intersection of remote engineering talent and AI services. The original model was an AI-driven platform that matches companies with vetted remote engineers worldwide. More recently, Turing has built a substantial business contributing engineering work to AI labs including OpenAI, helping train and build large language models. The company raised $111 million at a $2.2 billion valuation in 2025.

Like Andela, Turing is closer to a marketplace than a firm, with the AI-matching layer doing more of the work that an account manager would do elsewhere. The talent pool is concentrated in India and other lower-cost geographies. The AI services arm is interesting if your engineering work intersects with LLM training or generative AI applications.

Best for: Companies that want AI-driven matching for individual remote engineers, or companies whose work intersects with AI lab engineering.

How to pick

The ten firms above span a full range of size, geography, model, and price. The real decision is not which one is “best.” It is which one matches how you actually want to work.

If you want a dedicated long-term team and direct daily communication, the firm needs to be a staff augmentation shop with transparent pricing and high retention. That points to Full Scale, BairesDev, and Vention. If you want consulting plus engineering at enterprise scale, that points to EPAM, GlobalLogic, or FPT. If you want individual engineers on a flexible basis, that points to Andela or Turing.

The other dimension is geography. The Philippines is a different market than Latin America or Eastern Europe, and the choice changes what your day-to-day looks like. Filipino developers grew up consuming American culture, speak English fluently, and skew toward strong communication and customer-service instincts. Latin America is closer in time zone for US East Coast teams. Eastern Europe tends to have the deepest engineering benches for complex systems work. Vietnam and India bring price and scale. Africa, through Andela, brings geographic breadth at the cost of a managed firm relationship.

If you are still mapping which model fits, read the offshore development due diligence checklist before you take a single sales call.

A note on this list

Every “top 10” list on the internet for offshore software development companies puts the publisher’s own firm at the top, including this one. I am not pretending otherwise. The order here reflects how I would rank these firms if I were on the buying side, with the obvious caveat that I run Full Scale. The companies below us are real firms with real engineering benches, and they are on this list because a buyer might legitimately pick them over us depending on their situation.

What I will not do is pretend that pricing is “competitive” when one firm charges 4x another. And “global delivery” does not mean the same thing whether you are working with 35,000 engineers across forty countries or 350 in one city. The categories are real and the trade-offs are real.

Maybe your situation looks like the one I described at the top, where US hiring has stalled and you need senior engineers who think like owners. If so, Full Scale is the right firm to start with. If your situation is different, one of the other nine probably is.

FAQ

What is an offshore software development company?

An offshore software development company is a firm that builds software for clients using engineering talent located in a different country, typically a lower-cost region. The work happens remotely, usually with some daily time-zone overlap with the client. Offshore is distinct from nearshore, which is delivery from a country in a similar time zone like Mexico for US clients. It is also distinct from outsourcing, which means handing over a whole project to a vendor instead of integrating dedicated engineers with your team.

How much do offshore software development companies cost?

Hourly rates vary widely by region and firm. Senior engineers in the Philippines run $30 to $40 per hour at firms like Full Scale. Latin America and Eastern Europe sit in the $40 to $80 range depending on country and seniority. If you are still deciding where to build, our guide to which countries work best for offshore development walks through the tradeoffs. Enterprise firms like EPAM and GlobalLogic charge higher day rates that include consulting and project management overhead. Compare these to US senior engineer fully loaded costs of $80 to $150 per hour and the math is what makes the model work.

What is the difference between offshore and nearshore software development?

Offshore means delivery from a country with a significant time-zone difference from the client (the Philippines for US clients, for example). Nearshore means delivery from a country in a similar or adjacent time zone (Mexico, Colombia, or Argentina for US clients). The trade-off is real-time collaboration versus cost, with offshore typically cheaper and nearshore typically faster for synchronous work.

How do I choose the right offshore software development company?

Start with what model you want. Dedicated long-term team, individual contractor, or enterprise consulting engagement are three different shapes. Then look at pricing transparency, retention, engineering seniority, and time-zone overlap. Ask for two reference clients you can actually talk to. If the firm cannot answer those questions cleanly, keep shopping.

How do I manage an offshore development team?

Manage them like employees, not like a vendor you check in on once a week. The teams that work are the ones on the same Slack, the same standups, and the same code reviews as the in-house engineers. Give them context on why the product matters instead of just tickets to close. The biggest failures I have seen come from treating offshore developers as a black box you throw requirements at. If you want the full playbook, here is how to manage and work with offshore developers and the team structure that makes it click.

Which countries are best for offshore software development?

It depends on what you optimize for. The Philippines wins on English fluency, cultural fit with US teams, and cost, which is why we built Full Scale in Cebu. Latin America wins on time-zone overlap for US East Coast teams. Eastern Europe has the deepest benches for complex systems work. India and Vietnam bring the lowest rates and the biggest scale. I broke down what each region actually costs in our guide to offshore rates by country, and compared the two markets I know best in India versus the Philippines.

Why do offshore software development projects fail?

Almost never because the developers are bad. They fail because the model is broken before anyone writes a line of code. A project shop puts a middleman between you and the engineers, nobody owns the outcome, and the team turns over before it learns your codebase. The fix is structural, not a matter of trying harder. We documented the most common offshore development challenges and why offshore projects fail so you can spot the pattern before you sign.

What is the difference between offshore development and staff augmentation?

Offshore is about where the work happens. Staff augmentation is about how you engage the people doing it. You can have offshore staff augmentation, which is what Full Scale does: dedicated engineers in the Philippines who work as part of your team instead of a separate vendor shipping a fixed scope. The opposite is project outsourcing, where you hand over the whole thing and hope it comes back right. We pulled apart the staff augmentation versus outsourcing question if you want the longer version.