Your second engineering office. A fraction of the cost.
A permanent, company-backed team of engineers dedicated to your product — attending your sprints, owning their roadmap work, shipping alongside your in-house team indefinitely. Not outsourced projects. A real offshore engineering function.
The cost case
The salary difference that changes your cost base permanently
A 5-person offshore pod at Codalyst Tech costs less per year than a single senior engineer at UK market rate. The difference doesn't go away — it compounds.
Role
UK rate
Codalyst rate
Senior Frontend Engineer
£75,000/yr
$22,000/yr
75% less
Backend Engineer
£80,000/yr
$24,000/yr
73% less
QA Engineer
£55,000/yr
$16,000/yr
71% less
Mobile Developer
£85,000/yr
$25,000/yr
71% less
Example: 5-person product pod — UK cost (loaded) ≈ £400,000/yr. Codalyst offshore equivalent ≈ $105,000/yr. The £295,000 difference funds your entire product marketing budget, or two additional engineers.
How it works
Four elements of a Codalyst engineering pod
Team composition you define
You specify the roles, seniority levels, and skills. We source, vet, and present candidates you interview and approve. Your team, built to your specification.
One company contract
A single agreement with Codalyst Tech as a registered entity — not 5 individual freelancer contracts. One point of accountability, one invoice, one legal relationship.
Your toolchain throughout
GitHub or GitLab, Jira or Linear, Slack or Teams, Figma — whichever stack you use. We do not introduce our own tools or process. Your workflow, our people.
Delivery accountability
We own the team's performance. Replacement is included. If someone underperforms, we act on it. You hold us accountable for the team output, not 5 individual contractors.
Example configurations
Three common offshore pod configurations
Full-stack product pod
Monthly cost
$13,500/mo
UK equivalent
~$85,000/mo UK equivalent
Mobile product pod
Monthly cost
$15,000/mo
UK equivalent
~$90,000/mo UK equivalent
Growth engineering pod
Monthly cost
$8,500/mo
UK equivalent
~$52,000/mo UK equivalent
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You build product. We manage the team.
You direct the work
Your PM or tech lead defines the roadmap, assigns sprint work, and reviews output. The offshore team is an extension of your product organisation — you own the direction.
- Product roadmap ownership
- Sprint planning and priorities
- Architecture decisions
- Code review standards
We manage the team
Codalyst Tech handles employment, performance management, replacement, HR, payroll, and local compliance. You never deal with individual contractor admin.
- Hiring and vetting
- Replacement if someone leaves
- HR and local employment law
- One monthly invoice
The long-term case
Month 1 to month 12: how the relationship compounds
Onboarding and first sprint
- Full toolchain access and architecture orientation
- First sprint planned and tickets assigned
- First PRs reviewed and merged
Full velocity, institutional knowledge forming
- Operating at consistent sprint velocity
- Codebase familiarity reducing context-switching overhead
- Proactive suggestions and issue flags from the team
Independent ownership
- Team owns their roadmap area without close oversight
- Reduced check-in frequency needed from your in-house team
- Knowledge so deep that replacing them would be a real cost
Strategic asset
- Your offshore team compounds in output as product knowledge deepens
- Engineers advocate for your product decisions, not just execute tickets
- Total cost base permanently lower than local-only hiring
Not ready for a permanent pod?
Smaller commitments to start with
Common questions
Questions about offshore engineering pods
We cover the difference between outsourcing and team augmentation, IP and code ownership, minimum pod size, initial term recommendations, how the replacement guarantee works, and what happens when an engineer leaves in the product company FAQ.
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