Your engineering team in India, for a European company
Senior engineers are scarce and expensive across the Nordics, the DACH region, the UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands, and the roadmap does not wait. Outpost builds you a dedicated engineering team in India, on our payroll, working only for you, aligned to both the GDPR and India's DPDP Act, on a working day you share with Europe. You get the capability of a captive centre without standing one up.
Why European firms build in India
Across Europe, demand for strong engineers has outrun supply for years. Senior salaries in Zurich, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin, Dublin and London are high and still climbing, notice periods are long, and the best people are contested by every scale-up and incumbent in the market. Building or expanding an in-house team at home is slow and costly, and standing up your own entity in another country means running payroll, HR and compliance abroad before a line of code ships.
India sits on the other side of that equation. It holds one of the largest technology workforces in the world and adds hundreds of thousands of engineers a year, so roles that take months to fill in Europe come out of a far deeper pool, and a fully loaded seat in India typically costs a fraction of an equivalent senior hire at home. For a European company, an Outpost team is the way to add real engineering capacity at the quality bar you set, without either the local scarcity or the overhead of your own foreign entity.
GDPR and DPDP, handled together
For a European buyer, data protection is usually the first question, not the last, and it is the part of the model we have built most deliberately. PeopleCap is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, with the certificate available on request, and is built for India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act. We structure the engagement so your GDPR obligations are met alongside it: a clear controller and processor split, standard contractual clauses where personal data moves, access-managed environments, and primary data able to rest in India. You get a team abroad without loosening the data posture your regulators and customers expect.
A working day you share with Europe
India is about four and a half hours ahead of Central European Time, and a little more when Europe is on summer time. Set the India team to an afternoon-weighted day and the two sides share the whole European morning and into the afternoon: stand-ups are live, reviews happen in the moment, and a question asked in Munich or Helsinki in the morning is answered the same morning. We set the team's hours to the overlap that matters most for you, so this is one team in two places working together in real time, not work thrown over a wall overnight.
Built for European companies that run on software
Whether software is your product or the engine under it, Outpost builds the team. Fintech is the sector we know best.
Fintech and payments
Payments, banking, lending and wealth firms scaling engineering. See fintech engineering teams.
Software and SaaS
Product companies extending their engineering org with a dedicated team, not a rented bench.
Industrial and manufacturing
DACH and Nordic industrial groups digitising products, platforms and operations.
Logistics and mobility
Freight, mobility and supply-chain platforms where integration decides margins.
Healthtech and life sciences
Providers and platforms digitising records, booking and claims under strict data rules.
Insurance and insurtech
Underwriting, claims and distribution technology that needs engineering capacity fast.
Common questions
How does data protection work for a European company with a team in India?
The team is run to both regimes at once. PeopleCap is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and is built for India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and we structure the engagement so your GDPR obligations are met: a clear controller and processor split, standard contractual clauses where personal data moves, access-managed environments, and primary data able to rest in India. Data protection is usually a European buyer's first question, and it is the part of the model we have built most deliberately. See our trust and security overview.
Do the working days of Europe and India overlap?
Yes, and widely. India is about four and a half hours ahead of Central European Time, so a team set to an afternoon-weighted day in India shares the whole European morning and into the afternoon. Stand-ups are live, reviews happen in the moment, and we set the India team's hours to the overlap that matters most for you. This is real-time collaboration, not an overnight handover.
Is this only for non-technology companies, or also for software and fintech firms?
Both. European fintech, payments and software companies use Outpost to scale their engineering beyond what they can hire for at home, and non-technology firms use it to add engineering capacity to a stretched IT function. PeopleCap is a specialist financial-services and fintech talent firm, so a fintech engineering team is the team we are built to hire.
Who employs the team, and who owns the IP?
PeopleCap employs the team on its payroll in India, in a secure workspace, as the employer of record, so you get engineers in India without registering a company there. The team works only for your European company and reports into you day to day. All intellectual property and work product are assigned to you, and every engineer signs confidentiality and IP terms before day one.