Software Outsourcing

Software Outsourcing to a Senior Team in Romania

Hand us the whole build. We own scope, architecture, delivery and QA - you get shipped software, one point of accountability and the same senior engineers from start to finish.

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Why Outsource to Us

Outsourcing Without the Usual Risks

Most outsourcing goes wrong in the same places: junior teams, slow communication, staff swapped after signature and no one who owns the result. We built Carpathica to remove each of them.

One Point of Accountability

We plan, build, test and ship. You agree what is built and when - not who works on which ticket.

Senior Engineers Only

Every engineer has shipped real products. The people you meet are the people who build your software.

Your Working Hours

Two hours ahead of London and one ahead of Berlin, so questions are answered in minutes, not overnight.

EU-Based, GDPR-Native

Romania is in the EU, so your data stays in the EU and compliance is the default, not a retrofit.

We build web platforms, SaaS products, enterprise integrations and APIs - most often in Python, Django and FastAPI, and increasingly with AI, LLMs and computer vision at their core. See all our services.

Transparent Pricing

Software Outsourcing Rates, Role by Role

Every role sits inside the Eastern Europe range for the same role - 6 of 8 in the lower half of it. Hourly rates in US dollars, excluding VAT.

Mid-Level Developer

$52 /hour

Eastern Europe, intermediate developer: $45-$66

Senior Developer

$64 /hour

Eastern Europe, senior developer: $55-$86

Lead Developer

$74 /hour

Eastern Europe, lead developer: $65-$93

Solutions Architect

$80 /hour

Eastern Europe, architect: $50-$105

DevOps Engineer

$58 /hour

Eastern Europe, DevOps: $45-$87

QA Engineer

$54 /hour

Eastern Europe, senior QA engineer, automated: $50-$76

Project Manager

$62 /hour

Eastern Europe, project manager: $50-$87

AI / ML Engineer

$88 /hour

Eastern Europe, data scientist: $75-$96

$66.50 an hour on average

Averaged across our 8 roles. Every rate sits inside the $40-90 an hour range Accelerance identifies as the sweet spot for quality outsourcing, and below the $83-112 an hour it puts on the total cost of in-house engineering in the US.

Why there is no junior rate

There is no junior-heavy bench behind this card. Every engineer here has shipped real products, not just closed tickets - we do not compete at the bottom of the market, which Accelerance calls the danger zone for delivery quality.

Sources: role ranges from the Eastern Europe column of the Accelerance 2025 Global Software Outsourcing Rates & Trends Guide (the guide has no AI/ML engineer role, so data scientist is shown); sweet spot, danger zone and US in-house cost from the Accelerance 2023 guide.

How It Works

How an Outsourced Project Runs

1

Discovery Call

Scope, stack, constraints and timeline - a conversation, not a sales pitch.

2

Scoped Proposal

Architecture, milestones, team and price, with the pricing model that fits your project.

3

Build and Ship

Short sprints, a working demo every sprint, automated tests and continuous integration.

4

Support and Evolve

Deployment, documentation, handover or ongoing development - your choice.

Pricing Models

Fixed price for a well-defined scope, time and materials for products that evolve with user feedback, or a managed team that runs your roadmap month after month.

Prefer to Direct the Work Yourself?

With team augmentation, our senior engineers join your team and you keep architectural control. Read why a nearshore team in Romania works your hours.

Track Record

Proven on High-Stakes Work

Sector, scale and engagement model for each - the work speaks for itself.

Since Carpathica

Banking Nearshore delivery

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.

AI agents Co-founded venture

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.

SaaS Own products

Products we build and run

Panthero and Keelr (continuous attack-and-defence security), Tissia (AI customer service) and Carpathica Academy (a complete learning platform) - designed, built and operated by our own team.

Before Carpathica - our founder, in London and Cambridge

Telecoms Technical architecture

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.

Luxury retail Rescue and delivery

A stalled global launch, taken live

Rescued a stalled, business-critical global e-commerce launch for a luxury brand - a contract worth roughly $20M a year - and took it live, including a compliant launch in China.

Marketing technology Outsourced build

An AI analytics platform that replaced the market leader

Built an AI social-media analytics platform from scratch for a London social media agency. It replaced the market-leading tool the agency had been using and earned UK Government innovation credit.

FAQ

Software Outsourcing: Common Questions

Our rates run from $52 an hour for a mid-level developer to $88 an hour for an AI or machine learning engineer; averaged across our 8 roles that is $66.50 an hour. Every role sits inside the Eastern Europe range for the same role published by Accelerance, 6 of 8 in the lower half of it. Accelerance puts the total cost of in-house engineering in the US at $83-112 an hour.

With software outsourcing, scope, architecture, delivery and quality assurance sit with us. You agree what needs to be built and when; we plan the work, build it, test it and ship it, and you have one point of accountability instead of managing individual developers.

Time and materials, fixed price, a managed team or staff augmentation. Fixed price suits a well-defined scope; time and materials suits products that will evolve as you learn from users.

It starts with a discovery call about scope, stack and constraints. We then send a scoped proposal, and once it is agreed the team starts work straight away - there is no lengthy onboarding phase.

Yes. Romania is an EU member state, so GDPR applies to us directly and personal data stays inside the EU - no additional transfer mechanisms are needed for EU clients. We treat compliance as the default, not a retrofit.

Because junior-heavy teams are where outsourcing quality fails. Every engineer on our team has shipped real products, so there is no junior rate on our card - you pay for seniority and get seniority.

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