Nearshore development centre
Your own nearshore development centre in Romania — a standing engineering unit recruited to your profile, run by us, dedicated to you.
- Minimum
- 4 engineers
- Stand-up
- 6–10 weeks
- Model
- Dedicated, cost + fee
- Option
- Build–operate–transfer
The premise
A nearshore development centre — center, if you prefer the US spelling — is the answer when the roadmap is longer than a project and hiring locally is either too slow or too expensive. You get a dedicated engineering team in Romania that only works on your product, one to two hours ahead of Western Europe, with the retention, domain knowledge and continuity that implies.
We handle recruitment, employment, equipment, office, payroll and line management under EU law. You handle priorities.
The parts of the work
Recruitment to your profile
We hire against your scorecard, you interview every candidate, and nobody joins without your approval.
Employment and operations
Contracts, payroll, benefits, hardware, office space and IT security handled under Romanian and EU law.
Technical leadership
A senior lead on the ground keeps standards, reviews and architecture coherent between your visits.
Build–operate–transfer
If you eventually want the entity in-house, the transfer path is agreed at the start, not negotiated later.
Five steps, and what you hold at the end of each
Design
Team shape, seniority mix, budget envelope and the two-year growth plan behind it.
Centre blueprint
Recruit
Sourcing, screening and your interviews, with a first cohort typically signed inside six weeks.
Signed first cohort
Establish
Desks, devices, access, security policy and the engineering standards you already run.
Operating environment
Embed
Domain immersion with your people, then a first production delivery to prove the pipe works.
First release
Grow
Add roles as the roadmap justifies them, with retention and succession tracked openly.
Quarterly headcount plan
What this looks like in numbers
6 wks
Typical time to first signed cohort
100%
Candidates interviewed by you
BOT
Transfer path available from day one
1
Accountable lead on the ground
Asked first, every time
Is the team really dedicated?
Yes. Nobody in a development centre is shared with another client, and utilisation is reported to you monthly.
What if we want to take the team in-house?
That is the build–operate–transfer option, agreed up front with a fee schedule so it never becomes a hostage negotiation.
What does a nearshore development centre in Romania cost?
Senior day rates in the Romanian market commonly run €350–€650 depending on seniority and contract shape. Our dedicated team starts at €7,000 per month, published on the pricing page with the assumptions that would move it.
Tell us what you’re trying to ship
A first call is thirty minutes and costs nothing. Bring the problem, not a spec — working out what to build is the part we are good at.
Or email office@symphonyapps.ro. We reply within one business day, in English or Romanian.