eLearning software development teams that build for engagement, not just delivery.
Hire dedicated senior engineers for education software development services from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We place LMS, course-authoring, and assessment engineers in the Philippines who join your team directly. 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 eLearning team, building with you.
Most education 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 to 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 eLearning stack
We don't sell you a pre-built product. We staff engineers who have shipped learning software before and know where engagement is won or lost.
Custom LMS software development
Learning management systems, enrollment and cohort tracking, SCORM and xAPI support, and integrations with the tools your learners already use.
Course authoring & content
Authoring tools, content management, multimedia lesson builders, and adaptive learning paths that keep learners moving.
Live & video learning
Virtual classrooms, live sessions, video streaming and transcoding, recordings, and interactive in-video prompts.
Assessments & certification
Quiz and exam engines, automated grading, proctoring, certificates, and credentialing that hold up to scrutiny.
Student & admin portals
Learner dashboards, instructor and admin consoles, role-based access, and self-service onboarding for schools and teams.
Learning analytics
Progress tracking, engagement and completion reporting, dropout signals, and dashboards that tell you what's actually working.
Engineers who build for student privacy and accessibility from the start
Education software touches minors, student records, and learners with disabilities. Our engineers treat privacy and accessibility as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
ELearning teams we've staffed
One team, no distinction by geography
Ascend Learning runs a ~600-person, multi-stack engineering org across ATI Nursing Education, the National Healthcareer Association, BoardVitals, and Jones & Bartlett Learning. Full Scale engineers work as full members of that org, not a walled-off vendor team.
“We believe that there really isn't a distinction that exists within the team structure based on geography. It's one team, that's a mantra that we employ every day.”Nick Ide, VP of Software Engineering
Read the case study →The eLearning specialists on our bench
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Frontend engineers
React, Angular, learner UIs
Mobile (learning apps)
iOS, Android, Flutter
Video / streaming
Transcoding, live sessions
Data / analytics
Learning analytics, reporting
Accessibility / QA
WCAG, automated testing
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
Solutions architects
System & data design
The eLearning stack our engineers work in
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Learning & media
Why most offshore eLearning 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 engagement sorts itself out. I call that cheapshoring, and in education software it's how you end up with a course nobody finishes and a rebuild.
Learning software lives or dies on whether people come back. You need engineers who care that a slow video player or a clunky quiz flow is the reason a learner quits. 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 eLearning 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
eLearning Software Development Services, answered
- Do your engineers understand education software requirements?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have built LMS, course, and assessment software and who treat student privacy and accessibility 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 eLearning 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
ELearning engineering guides
SaaS development services
Our practice for the multi-tenant platforms behind eLearning.
The Product Driven method
How we train engineers to think like owners.
What staff augmentation is
The model behind an embedded eLearning team.
Cheapshoring: the eLearning version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.