Dedicated development teams forNew Zealand companies
Engineers assigned to your roadmap and nobody else’s, working in your repo, your tracker and your standup — sharing your afternoon and carrying on after you finish.
Dedicated Development Team in New Zealand
A dedicated team means engineers assigned to your roadmap alone, working inside your repository, tracker and chat, to your standards and your definition of done. For New Zealand companies the model answers a specific problem: the senior pool here is small in absolute terms and is being recruited from by Australian employers and remote-first companies overseas, so continuity is as scarce as capacity. Our morning covers your afternoon and our afternoon runs on for several hours after you finish. You set the team size at the outset and change it by agreement, with no compulsory minimum sitting underneath it.
Why here
Why this works for New Zealand.
The problem a New Zealand engineering leader is usually solving is not a shortage of applicants — it is continuity. The senior pool here is small in absolute terms, and the people in it are being recruited by Australian employers who will hire them remotely at Australian bands, by remote-first companies overseas paying in another currency, and by everyone else in town. When a five-person team loses the person who designed the data model, the loss is not one fifth of the capacity; it is the part nobody else can explain. A dedicated team adds capacity, but for most of our New Zealand conversations it is more usefully a second place where context lives: engineers who have been in the codebase for months, documentation kept current because more than one team depends on it, and pairing across both sides so knowledge is never resident in a single head.
The clock works differently here than it does across the Tasman, and it is worth being precise. Philippine Standard Time is UTC+8, so we are four hours behind New Zealand on NZST and five on NZDT. Your morning is genuinely quiet on our side — that is your deep-work time, not a gap we will pretend to fill. From about midday your team and ours are working together on standups, reviews, design decisions and pairing, and when you close for the day our afternoon still has hours in it, so well-specified work carries on and you return to progress rather than to questions. What we mean by dedicated is specific: named engineers who are not time-sliced across other accounts, working in your repository and to your conventions rather than importing ours, joining your ceremonies rather than running a parallel internal process. You know who is on the team before you commit, and if someone has to change we raise it and hand over properly rather than swapping a seat quietly.
What you get
How the work runs.
Context that does not live in one person’s head
A lead who carries the whole engagement, engineers who stay on your team, and documentation kept current because more than one group depends on it. When someone on either side moves on, the architecture and the reasoning behind it are still written down and still explainable.
Your day gets longer at the end, not the start
We share your afternoon and keep working for several hours after you finish. Pull requests opened late get reviewed, specified tickets keep moving, and the morning standup starts from progress. We will not claim to cover your 8am — that hour is yours.
Capacity sized to the export push
Add engineers for the release that opens a new market, step back to a smaller team once it settles, wind down cleanly when the phase ends. Notice is agreed before anyone starts, and holding capacity never means paying a floor to keep it.
Dedicated team FAQ
Common questions.
Is a four-to-five hour overlap really enough to run an embedded team?
It is, provided you use it deliberately. Four to five hours of genuine overlap every day is enough for standups, code review, design decisions and pairing — the things that actually need both parties awake. What it asks of you is that tickets are specified well enough to survive the hours we are not online, and that a lead on our side can make the small calls without waiting. Teams that adopt that rhythm stop noticing the offset within a month.
We only have two developers — will a partner team overwhelm them?
That is a fair concern and the reason we usually start small. One engineer plus a technical lead for the first six to eight weeks is enough to prove the working relationship on real tickets without your in-house people spending all day answering questions. We invest that period in reading the codebase and writing down what is not documented, so the ramp-up produces something you keep. Growing after that is your call, and we would rather you scale up because it is working than commit to four people on optimism.
What happens if it is not working, or when we want to bring it in-house?
You give the agreed notice and we run a proper handover: documentation brought current, environment and deployment configuration written down, repository access and full commit history sitting in your organisation, and a walkthrough with whoever is picking the work up. Commercial terms are agreed per engagement and written into the agreement before we start, so nothing about ending is a surprise. We would rather close an engagement cleanly and be worth calling again than make leaving difficult.