Cloud application development teams that build cloud-native, not just cloud-hosted.
Hire dedicated senior cloud engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We place engineers in the Philippines who build cloud-native applications, run migrations and modernization, design serverless and microservices, and keep your cloud bill honest. 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 cloud team, building with you.
Most cloud application development companies quote you a fixed-bid migration, run it behind a vendor wall, and hand back an architecture nobody on your team understands. We staff dedicated senior engineers into your team. You own them, manage them, and keep the cloud knowledge in-house.
The turnkey vendor model
The big custom-software shops
- Fixed-bid migration, 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 architecture 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 cloud 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 cloud-native stack
We don't sell you a pre-built platform. We staff engineers who have shipped cloud-native applications before and know where migrations, serverless, and multi-cloud actually break.
Cloud-native app development
Applications designed for the cloud from the first commit: containers, managed services, and twelve-factor patterns, not a monolith lifted onto a VM.
Cloud migration & modernization
Moving legacy workloads to the cloud and re-architecting them along the way, so you get the elasticity and the cost curve, not just a new bill.
Serverless & microservices
Event-driven functions, managed queues, and service boundaries that scale to zero and back, decomposed only where it actually earns its keep.
Multi-cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)
Engineers fluent in AWS, Azure, and GCP who build portable workloads and avoid the lock-in traps that show up two years later.
Cloud cost optimization
Rightsizing, autoscaling, and spend visibility so your cloud bill tracks usage instead of climbing while nobody is watching.
Cloud DevOps & SRE
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and the reliability work that keeps cloud applications up under real load.
Engineers who treat the Well-Architected pillars as the baseline, not the audit
A cloud application that's insecure, unobservable, or impossible to reproduce is a liability the day it ships. Our engineers build for security, reliability, and cost from the first commit, with infrastructure defined in code so the whole environment is auditable and repeatable.
The cloud application specialists on our bench
Cloud / backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Cloud architects
AWS, Azure, GCP design
DevOps / SRE
IaC, CI/CD, reliability
Platform engineers
Kubernetes, internal platforms
Data engineers
Pipelines, managed data services
Frontend engineers
React, TypeScript
QA automation
Pipeline and integration testing
Solutions architects
Migration and modernization
The cloud application stack our engineers work in
AWS
Azure
GCP
Containers & orchestration
IaC & DevOps
Languages & data
Why most cloud migrations stall
The mistake isn't moving to the cloud. It's lifting and shifting a legacy app onto cloud VMs without re-architecting it, then wondering why you're paying more for the same monolith. Lift-and-shift gives you the same costs and none of the cloud's benefits, no elasticity, no scale-to-zero, no managed services doing the heavy lifting. The migration looks done, and then it stalls because nothing actually got better.
The other way migrations stall is the hire. Companies pick the cheapest cloud contractor they can find, get an architecture nobody can explain, and inherit a bill that climbs on its own. I call that cheapshoring, and in the cloud it's expensive twice: once for the rework, once for the wasted spend. You need engineers who re-architect as they migrate, which is a hiring bar, not a rate. That's why 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 cloud 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
Cloud Application Development Services, answered
- Is this cloud-native development or just cloud hosting?
- Cloud-native. We staff engineers who build applications designed for the cloud, with containers, managed services, and serverless where it fits, not a monolith lifted onto a VM and called migrated.
- 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 migration quote.
- Do your engineers work across AWS, Azure, and GCP?
- Yes. We place engineers fluent in all three major clouds, plus Kubernetes and Terraform, so we can staff for a single cloud or a multi-cloud setup.
- How is this different from your custom software and SaaS services?
- Our custom software development practice covers building applications generally, and our SaaS development practice covers shipping a multi-tenant product. This page is the cloud-native architecture, migration, serverless, and multi-cloud capability that those products often run on.
- How fast can a cloud 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 and your cloud accounts under your process.
Staffing engineering teams across every industry
Cloud application engineering guides
Custom software development
Our broader practice for building applications end to end.
SaaS development services
For shipping a multi-tenant product on top of the cloud.
Hire DevOps engineers
The reliability and IaC side of cloud-native work.
Cheapshoring: the cloud version
Why the cheapest cloud contractor is the most expensive.