Food delivery app development teams that handle the dinner rush.
Hire dedicated senior engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We place engineers in the Philippines who build on-demand ordering apps, driver dispatch, and merchant dashboards that hold up when orders spike. 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 delivery team, building with you.
Most food delivery app 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 on-demand delivery stack
We don't sell you a pre-built product. We staff engineers who have shipped real-time, high-traffic systems before and know where the scale and reliability landmines are.
Customer ordering apps
iOS, Android, and web ordering with menus, carts, scheduling, ratings, and re-order flows that keep diners coming back.
Driver & courier apps
Driver onboarding, batched order assignment, navigation, proof of delivery, and earnings tracking built for the road.
Restaurant & merchant dashboards
Menu and inventory management, order acceptance, prep-time controls, and POS integrations for the merchants you serve.
Real-time dispatch & tracking
Order routing, courier matching, live map tracking, ETA prediction, and geofencing that stays accurate at volume.
Payments & wallets
Card processing, in-app wallets, split payouts to drivers and merchants, tipping, and refunds built to clear an audit.
Delivery operations analytics
Demand forecasting, delivery-time and SLA dashboards, fraud signals, and the data pipelines behind dynamic pricing.
Engineers who build for scale and trust, not just launch day
On-demand delivery doesn't forgive shortcuts. Our engineers have worked inside environments where a payment bug is a chargeback and a dropped order is a churned customer, and they treat scale and data protection as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
The food delivery specialists on our bench
Mobile engineers
iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Real-time / geo
Dispatch, tracking, maps, routing
Payments integration
Stripe, split payouts, wallets
Data / ML engineers
Demand forecasting, ETAs
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, peak-load uptime
QA automation
Test coverage for order flows
Solutions architects
System & data design
The food delivery stack our engineers work in
Mobile
Backend
Frontend
Real-time & geo
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Why most offshore delivery apps 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 scale sorts itself out. I call that cheapshoring, and in on-demand delivery it's how you end up with a crashed app at 7pm on a Friday and a rewrite.
Delivery software is unforgiving. You need engineers who understand that a slow dispatch is a lost order and a payment bug is a chargeback. 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 delivery 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
Food Delivery App Development Services, answered
- Do your engineers have experience with on-demand and real-time apps?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have shipped real-time, high-traffic systems with live tracking, dispatch, and payments, and treat scale 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 a delivery 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
Food delivery engineering guides
Ecommerce software development
Engineers for storefronts, checkout, and order flows.
Retail software development
Building the systems behind in-store and online retail.
Staff augmentation vs. a dev shop
Why owning the team beats handing off the build.
Cheapshoring: the delivery version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.