Nearshore Software Development from Romania
A senior engineering team inside the EU, two hours ahead of London and one ahead of Berlin - working your hours, joining your stand-ups and answering in minutes, not overnight.
Why Nearshore Beats Offshore
Offshore rates look attractive until questions wait overnight and every meeting happens at the edge of someone's day. Nearshore keeps the savings and removes the delay.
| Nearshore - Carpathica, Romania | Typical offshore | |
|---|---|---|
| Working-day overlap with Europe | A full working day | A few hours, often less |
| Answers to questions | In minutes, during your day | Next morning |
| Data protection | EU member state - GDPR applies directly | Transfer agreements and extra assessments |
| Meeting in person | A short flight from most European capitals | Long-haul travel and visas |
| Team seniority | Senior engineers only | Varies - the cheapest firms carry the most delivery risk |
Your Working Day, Shared
Romania runs on Eastern European Time - UTC+2, or UTC+3 in summer.
London
We are two hours ahead, so your whole working day falls inside ours.
Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam
One hour apart - the same stand-ups, the same afternoons, the same week.
New York
Seven hours apart: your morning is our afternoon, with work moving forward while you sleep.
Onshore and On-Site Delivery
For clients in Romania and across the EU, we are an onshore partner: local delivery under EU law, EU contracts and EU data protection, with no cross-border complications.
And when the work calls for it, our engineers work on site at your premises. Our founder spent years doing exactly that in London and Cambridge - embedded in client offices, delivering alongside their own teams.
Choose How We Work Together
- Software outsourcing - we own the outcome, from scope to shipped software
- Team augmentation - our senior engineers join your team
- Nearshore, onshore or on site - whichever fits your project
Proven on High-Stakes Work
Sector, scale and engagement model for each - the work speaks for itself.
Since Carpathica
Security work for a global bank
A London digital agency we had worked with on site brought us in to help one of its global banking clients on security - delivered nearshore from Romania.
A client that followed us home
After the Python 3 migration, the same global consumer brand kept working with us once we had moved back to Romania - the same engineering standards, delivered nearshore.
An AI-agent commerce platform
Co-founded and built an AI-agent commerce platform that lets local businesses receive and serve customers' AI assistants in their own voice - vision, architecture and delivery end to end.
Before Carpathica - our founder, in London and Cambridge
A digital department built from zero
Brought in on site to build a global academic publisher's digital department from zero, after £8M had been spent without result - a plan executed across a 3,000-person, 50-office organisation.
960,000 lines, Python 2 to Python 3
Embedded for two years in the engineering organisation of a global consumer brand, migrating a 960,000-line e-commerce codebase from Python 2 to Python 3 across a technical team of hundreds - delivered two weeks early.
A £120M+ mobile network account
As Technical Architect at a leading London advertising agency, full technical responsibility for a major UK mobile network's account, worth over £120M - including the client's first major cloud migration.
Nearshore Software Development: Common Questions
Tell Us What You Need to Build
Start with a no-obligation discovery call about your scope, stack and timeline - directly with the founder, not a sales team.
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