Ship your roadmap faster with a stable senior dev team (embedded, not black-boxed)
Interview-first senior engineers in Indonesia, integrated into your Jira/GitHub workflow with direct communication, code reviews, and quality gates from day one.
If you're hiring in Australia, you already know the pain
Senior hires take months, then weeks to ramp
Recruiting senior staff takes 3–6 months on average. Then comes onboarding, team cohesion, ramp time — all before you see a single commit land in production.
Contractors churn and take context with them
Contractors leave when a better rate appears. And when they go, they take the architecture knowledge, the edge cases, and the delivery momentum with them.
Roadmap expands faster than headcount
Product keeps adding scope. Engineering capacity stays flat. The backlog grows. Velocity drops. The team burns out trying to keep up.
Tech debt grows while Product wants 'one more thing'
Every sprint is a negotiation between stability and speed. Without a stable senior team, quality gets sacrificed to hit deadlines — and the debt compounds.
You don't need “more outsourcing.” You need a second team that compounds knowledge and ships predictably.
A dedicated pod that plugs into your workflow — and stays
Every pod is built from senior engineers (7+ years) who've shipped together before — integrated into your existing workflow from day one.
Interview-first
You meet and interview the engineers before they join your team. No surprises, no black-box matching — you choose who you work with.
Embedded delivery
Your tools, your standards, your PR process. Engineers live in your Jira, GitHub, and Slack — not in a separate vendor system you have to chase for updates.
Stability by design
Teams that stay together, stay with you. We build pods designed for continuity — so knowledge compounds instead of walking out the door with every contractor.
The top 3% of Indonesia's engineering talent
We recruit Indonesia's top 3% of engineers — smart, hardworking, and rigorously trained to operate as a cohesive unit that delivers at lightning speed and quality
What one of our elite teams look like
Every member is a senior engineer with 7+ years' experience
Ari
Lead Engineer
Seasoned leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling engineering teams, architecting complex systems, and delivering innovative products across multiple domains.
Febryan
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Senior fullstack developer with 7+ years of experience building scalable systems end-to-end, skilled in Node.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS infrastructure.
Rifky
Senior Frontend Engineer
Frontend developer with 8+ years' experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Vue — passionate about solving complex UI problems and delivering pixel-perfect interfaces.
Ang
Senior Mobile Engineer
Senior mobile engineer with 7+ years' experience specialising in mobile development, proficient in React Native, Flutter, Kotlin, and modern mobile architectures.
What you get
The complete offer — core team, delivery system, and everything you need to ship from week one.
Core Pod
3× Senior Engineers
Frontend, backend, or fullstack — matched to your stack and scoped to your roadmap.
Tech Lead / PM included
Delivery ownership, stakeholder comms, sprint planning — all handled without adding to your management load.
QA included
Test planning, regression suites, and release confidence built into every sprint — not bolted on at the end.
Delivery System
Weekly planning + daily async updates
Sprint kickoffs, daily Slack standups, and end-of-week summaries — full visibility without micromanagement.
PR-first workflow + code reviews
Every change goes through peer review. Your standards, your conventions, enforced consistently.
QA gates before every release
No feature ships without QA sign-off. Test plans, regression checks, and a clear definition of done.
Transparent velocity reporting
Cycle time, throughput, blockers — reported weekly so you always know where your roadmap stands.
Included Bonuses
"First 10 Days" Onboarding Blueprint
Plug-and-play PDF + checklist: access, repos, environments, coding standards, PR workflow, QA gates.
Delivery Health Check (90 mins)
Quick audit of bottlenecks — CI time, PR review latency, environment pain — plus top 5 fixes, in writing.
Architecture & Tech Debt Triage Workshop
2-hour session to map top risk areas + produce a ranked tech-debt backlog with impact vs effort scores.
Security & SDLC Baseline Checklist
Secrets handling, IAM basics, branch protections, logging/PII, vuln scanning — CTO-friendly one-pager.
"Cost vs Local Hiring" Calculator
Transparent comparison: salary, super, recruitment time, contractor churn, and true loaded cost.
Engineering Hiring Scorecard + Interview Kit
Rubrics, sample questions, and take-home standards to help your own hiring process too.
CI/CD Quick Wins Pack
Caching patterns, parallelisation ideas, flaky test triage, and a PR checks baseline to ship faster.
Observability Starter Pack
Suggested SLOs, error budget basics, and "what to instrument first" (Sentry/Datadog/New Relic ready).
Release Readiness Template
A one-pager Definition of Done + QA gates your whole Eng/Product org can align on.
Knowledge Retention System Setup
Notion/Confluence structure + tribal knowledge capture rituals: ADR template, runbooks, onboarding notes.
We work with all technologies and stacks
Frontend, backend, mobile, cloud — whatever you build on, we're already fluent
Trusted by fast-growing companies worldwide
AI virtual receptionist that answers calls instantly, books appointments, and handles enquiries 24/7 — built for service-based businesses.
Sophiie raised $1.8M within 12 months, and an additional $3.2M just 6 months later.
Resident management super app for modern residential communities — connecting residents, property managers, and developers through a single platform for amenities, security, and community services.
Erin raised $4M with Origin Energy after 3 years working with us. They now have a team of 7 and we are on track to grow the team further.
Australia's largest dance directory — connecting dancers with studios nationwide and providing dance schools with management software to run their business efficiently.
ENPNT raised $2M only after 1 year working with us, and are on track to penetrate the US market with the Upscalix team powering the platform.
Why our clients love working with us
“Upscalix helped us source and hire amazing talent in Indonesia who were and still are instrumental in bringing our original vision to life.”
CEO @ Sophiie.ai
“Upscalix helped us source and hire amazing talent in Indonesia who were and still are instrumental in bringing our original vision to life.”
CEO @ Sophiie.ai
“We have been working with Upscalix from the first year of our startup, until now. They have been nothing short of a miracle to us, providing quality software development staff to propel us to our biggest capital raising round.”
CEO @ Erin Living
“We have been working with Upscalix from the first year of our startup, until now. They have been nothing short of a miracle to us, providing quality software development staff to propel us to our biggest capital raising round.”
CEO @ Erin Living
How we prevent the usual outsourcing failure modes
Most outsourcing fails for predictable reasons. Here's how we've designed against each one.
The “No-Drama” Guarantee
Saying yes should feel safe. We've thought about what happens when things go wrong — before you have to ask.
30-Day Fit Guarantee
If it's not a fit in the first 30 days, we'll either replace the engineer at no cost or credit the month. No disputes, no process — just a fix.
Replacement SLA
If someone leaves, we provide a replacement within 10 business days with a full handover overlap. Your project doesn't stall — we absorb the transition.
Direct access, always
You have direct Slack/GitHub access to every engineer on your pod. If something feels off, you talk to the engineer — not a support ticket.
Simple pricing that scales with your roadmap
AU$6,000/mo per developer — with a CTO-level Tech Lead/PM and QA included at no extra cost. Minimum 3 developers.
Save up to 60% compared to local hiring. No superannuation, benefits, or overhead costs.
Common Use Cases
Pod Expansion
1–3 engineers
Add capacity to an existing squad fast — same tech standards, zero onboarding drag.
Feature Squad
Bounded scope, full ownership
Spin up a pod to own a feature end-to-end — product, engineering, and QA in one team.
Stabilisation Sprint
Tech debt + reliability
Improve release cadence, tame tech debt, and reduce incident rate — with a senior team built for it.
How we start
(without a long vendor onboarding)
From first call to first commit in 2–4 weeks. Here's exactly what that looks like.
Technical Fit Call (15 mins)
We align on your stack, constraints, team size, and what "good" looks like for your roadmap. Quick and direct — no sales deck.
Engineer Matching (interview-first)
We shortlist engineers matched to your stack and culture. You interview them. You decide who joins your pod — no surprises.
Week 1 Integration
Access, environments, coding standards, Slack, GitHub — all set up in the first week. First PRs land before the end of week one.
Delivery Cadence
Weekly planning, daily async standups, shipping increments, and transparent velocity reporting — every sprint, from day one.
FAQ
Ready to add a senior pod
in 2–4 weeks?
Book a short technical call. We'll confirm fit, map the first 2 weeks, and show you exactly how we'll integrate.