Energy software development teams built for the grid, the field, and everything between.
Hire dedicated senior engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder and former CTO. We place engineers in the Philippines who ship grid, utility, oil and gas, and energy trading software. Pre-vetted, full-time, and ready in 7 days.
- Inc. 5000 honoreefour years running
- 350+ senior engineerson staff, across every stack
- 200+ companies servedsince 2018
- 1,000+ engineer placementsinto US software teams
Not a dev shop building it for you. Your energy team, building with you.
Most energy 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 energy stack
We don't sell you a pre-built product. We staff engineers who have shipped in these domains before and know where the reliability and security landmines are.
Grid & utility management
Distribution and outage management, demand response, load forecasting, and the customer and billing systems that run a modern utility.
Oil & gas operations
Upstream production tracking, midstream logistics, field data capture, and well and pipeline operations software that holds up in the field.
Energy trading & risk management
ETRM and CTRM platforms, position and exposure tracking, settlement, and market-data pipelines for power and commodities.
Asset & SCADA monitoring
SCADA integrations, real-time telemetry, asset health and predictive maintenance, and dashboards for plants and remote equipment.
Smart metering
AMI and meter data management, time-of-use rating, prepaid metering, and the integrations that tie meters to billing and the grid.
Energy data & analytics
Consumption and generation analytics, emissions and sustainability reporting, and machine-learning pipelines on operational and market data.
Engineers who build for reliability and security, not just ship dates
Energy software doesn't forgive shortcuts. Our engineers have worked inside environments where an outage is a headline and a control-system gap is a liability, and they treat reliability and security as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
The energy specialists on our bench
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Data / ML engineers
Telemetry, forecasting models
SCADA / OT integration
Device data, protocols, pipelines
Frontend engineers
Operator and customer dashboards
Mobile (field apps)
iOS, Android, Flutter
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
QA automation
Test coverage for critical paths
Solutions architects
System & data design
The energy stack our engineers work in
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Streaming & IoT
Why most offshore energy 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 energy software it's how you end up with a control-system gap and a rewrite.
Energy software is unforgiving. You need engineers who understand that a bad meter read is a billing dispute and an unmonitored asset is a safety risk. 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 7 days
- 1Tell us the energy 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
Energy Software Development Services, answered
- Do your engineers have energy and utilities experience?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have shipped grid, utility, oil and gas, and energy trading software, and treat reliability and security 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 energy team start?
- 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.
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