Scaling engineering teams in Europe is slow and increasingly complex.
74% of companies struggle to find ICT specialists, while hiring senior engineers can take between 3 and 6 months. Salaries have also increased by 15% to 25%, creating delivery delays, budget pressure and operational bottlenecks.
Nearshoring helps companies scale engineering capacity faster. But successful nearshore collaboration depends on more than adding developers. Teams need to integrate into workflows, communication processes and product environments from the start.
Nearshore Portugal focuses on building integrated engineering teams that support real delivery operations, long-term collaboration and scalable growth.
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Define delivery goals, technical requirements, collaboration structure and success metrics.
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Identify engineers aligned with the technical stack, product environment and operational needs.
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Assemble a nearshore team designed around your workflows, communication processes and roadmap priorities.
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Embed engineers into your tools, ceremonies, communication channels and delivery operations.
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Expand the team structure as product complexity and business needs evolve.
faster hiring compared to local markets
cost efficiency vs Western Europe
to build a functioning team
retention ensuring continuity
With our HQ sited in Lisbon. We also have offices located in Oporto and Hamburg.
Our team extension model can be applied to any company, regardless of size. We focus on providing customers with the best solutions set on meeting project needs and capabilities. More than matching talented professionals to ambitious endeavors, we make sure customers have access to the best people.
A dedicated team is a valuable resource aimed at complementing an in-house team, but not substituting it. We operate a team extension model, an approach focused on filling in the skill gaps of an existing in-house IT team and augmenting its overall potential. An extended team, which comprises of IT professionals with specific skills, becoming part of the company, its culture, and vision with the benefit of being customized and managed as needed by the customer. This provides companies with the versatility of skills, greater project flexibility, support from seasoned talent, long-term collaboration practices, increased efficiency, faster time to market, and significant cost savings.
Our consultants work in Greenwich Mean Time, also used as standard time in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. As Portugal is the most western country in Europe, it experiences a unique advantage as the country benefits from very little time difference from most European countries. This, in turn, allows teams to engage during normal business hours, gain easier integration, experience seamless communications with little cultural and language barriers, and provide clients with quick flights to the Providers HQ.
Through a hands-on approach, our tech recruitment team undergoes a detailed selection process centered on a pool of CV’s and interviews to determine candidate’s capabilities, from know-how, to soft and hard skills. Once a short-list is finalized, customers analyze and become part of the recruitment process to determine if the developers have the experience and knowledge desired as well as the correct profile. Only then will the hire take place and the professionals or team will be allocated to the project.
We like to use Slack or Teams for real-time daily communication and/or Zoom for voice and video conferencing.
You’re more than welcome! We really appreciate having our clients visiting our office to work side-by-side with their team.
Create integrated engineering teams with structured onboarding, operational alignment and long-term delivery support.