Sports software development teams that build for game day traffic.
Hire dedicated senior engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We place engineers in the Philippines who ship fan engagement, ticketing, live stats, betting, and streaming software that holds up when 50,000 people open the app at once. 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 sports team, building with you.
Most sports 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 season 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 sports tech stack
We don't sell you a pre-built product. We staff engineers who have shipped in these domains before and know where the traffic-spike and latency landmines are.
Fan engagement & mobile apps
Fan-facing iOS and Android apps, loyalty and rewards, push and notifications, and second-screen experiences that hold up on game day.
Ticketing & venue
Ticketing platforms, mobile entry and access control, concessions and in-venue ordering, and seat-map and inventory systems.
Live stats & scoring
Real-time scoring and stats feeds, low-latency data pipelines, play-by-play ingestion, and live dashboards that don't fall behind the action.
Sports betting & fantasy
Sportsbook and odds platforms, fantasy and daily-fantasy software, wagering workflows, and the payments and integrity controls around them.
Athlete & performance analytics
Wearable and sensor data pipelines, performance and biomechanics dashboards, scouting and recruiting tools, and machine-learning models on game data.
Streaming & broadcast
Live and on-demand streaming, video transcoding pipelines, OTT apps across devices, and the CDN and delivery work behind smooth playback.
Engineers who build for the spike, not just the demo
Sports software doesn't forgive a slow checkout at kickoff. Our engineers have worked inside environments where traffic arrives all at once and a payment path has to clear an audit, and they treat scale, latency, and data security as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
Sports teams we've staffed
Rescuing a sports-facility management platform
Facility Ally, a management platform for sports facilities, entertainment venues, and clubs, had been burned by multiple development companies before Full Scale. Rather than starting over, we improved the platform that was already built.
“Choosing Full Scale was a pivotal decision for us. They offered more than just development support; they became an indispensable part of our growth strategy, acting as both an outsourced CTO and a business advisor.”Luke Wade, CEO
Read the case study →The sports specialists on our bench
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Real-time / streaming
WebSockets, Kafka, low latency
Mobile (fan apps)
iOS, Android, Flutter
Payments integration
Stripe, ticketing, wagering
Data / ML engineers
Stats, performance models
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
QA automation
Test coverage for peak load
Solutions architects
System & data design
The sports stack our engineers work in
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Real-time & data
Cloud & DevOps
Media
Why most offshore sports 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 app survives kickoff. I call that cheapshoring, and in sports software it's how you end up with a crashed app at the worst possible moment and a rewrite.
Game-day software is unforgiving. You need engineers who understand that all your traffic shows up in the same ten minutes and a dropped payment is a refund queue. 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 sports 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
Sports Software Development Services, answered
- Do your engineers handle game-day traffic and live data?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have built real-time scoring, streaming, and high-traffic fan software, and treat scale and latency 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 sports software 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
Sports engineering guides
eCommerce software development
Engineers who build for peak-day traffic and checkout.
Retail software development
POS, inventory, and omnichannel systems built for the busiest day.
Staff augmentation vs. a dev shop
Why owning the team beats handing off the build.
Cheapshoring: the sports version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.