Manufacturing software development teams that speak shop-floor, not just slides.
Hire dedicated senior manufacturing engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We staff backend, data, and integration engineers in the Philippines who build MES, inventory, and machine-monitoring software that holds up on the plant floor. 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 manufacturing team, building with you.
Most manufacturing 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 manufacturing stack
We don't sell you a pre-built product. We staff engineers who have shipped in these domains before and know what breaks when software meets the plant floor.
MES & shop-floor control
Manufacturing execution systems, work-order tracking, and real-time production control built for the floor, not the boardroom.
Inventory & production planning
Inventory tracking, demand and capacity planning, scheduling, and bill-of-materials systems that match what is actually on the line.
IIoT & machine monitoring
Industrial IoT pipelines, sensor and PLC data ingestion, OEE dashboards, and predictive-maintenance signals from live equipment.
Quality management
Quality management systems, inspection and defect tracking, non-conformance workflows, and traceability that holds up to an audit.
ERP & supply integrations
Integrations across ERP, PLM, WMS, and supplier systems so the plant, the warehouse, and the back office share one source of truth.
Manufacturing analytics
Production analytics, throughput and yield reporting, cost-per-unit tracking, and data warehouses built on real factory data.
Engineers who build for the floor, not just the demo
Manufacturing software fails quietly, in bad data and missed traceability, not loud crashes. Our engineers have worked inside operational, integration-heavy environments and treat data integrity and security as architecture decisions, not afterthoughts.
The manufacturing specialists on our bench
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Integration engineers
ERP, PLC, REST, MQTT
Data engineers
Pipelines, warehousing, OEE
IIoT / embedded
Sensors, edge, telemetry
Frontend engineers
React, dashboards, HMIs
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
QA automation
Test coverage for the line
Solutions architects
System & data design
The manufacturing stack our engineers work in
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Integration
Why most offshore manufacturing 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 the system holds up when it meets the plant floor. I call that cheapshoring, and in manufacturing it's how you end up with an MES nobody on the line trusts.
Manufacturing software is unforgiving. You need engineers who understand that a wrong inventory count stops a line and a dropped sensor reading hides a failing machine. 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 manufacturing 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
Manufacturing Software Development Services, answered
- Do your engineers understand manufacturing systems?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have built MES, inventory, and integration-heavy systems that run real operational volume, and who treat data integrity and uptime as architecture decisions, not afterthoughts.
- 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 manufacturing 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.
Staffing engineering teams across every industry
Manufacturing engineering guides
ERP software development
Our sibling practice for the systems that run the plant.
The Product Driven method
How we train engineers to think like owners.
What staff augmentation is
The model behind an embedded manufacturing team.
Cheapshoring: the manufacturing version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.