Your engineering team in India, for a US company
US engineering salaries are high and the market for senior people is brutal, whether you are a startup guarding runway or a scale-up hiring against Big Tech. Outpost builds you a dedicated engineering team in India, on our payroll, working only for you, at a fraction of a US hire, with a real live window on your morning and IP assigned to you. You get the capability of a captive centre without standing one up.
Why US firms build in India
Hiring senior engineers in the US is expensive and slow, and it does not get easier with scale. A startup spends runway it cannot spare to compete for the same people as the largest technology companies in the world, and a growth-stage firm watches compensation, counteroffers and attrition eat into every plan. Opening your own entity abroad to hire around it means running payroll, HR and compliance in another country before you have shipped anything.
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 and a premium to fill in the US come out of a far deeper pool, and a fully loaded seat in India typically costs a fraction of an equivalent US hire. For a US company, an Outpost team is the way to add senior engineering capacity at the bar you set, without the US cost curve or the overhead of your own foreign entity.
A real overlap, and honest follow-the-sun
We will not pretend India and the US share a full working day, because they do not. What they do share is a real, usable window and a genuine follow-the-sun advantage, and used deliberately that is a strength rather than a compromise. India is nine and a half to ten and a half hours ahead of the US East Coast, so a team set to an afternoon and evening schedule in India gives you several live hours on your morning for stand-ups, reviews and pairing, then keeps building while your day is over, so progress is waiting for you the next morning. We tune the team's hours to your East, Central or West Coast day and to how much live overlap the work needs.
Built for US 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
Startups and scale-ups extending their engineering org with a dedicated team, not a rented bench.
Healthtech
Providers and platforms digitising records, booking and claims under strict data rules.
E-commerce and retail
Storefronts, marketplaces, loyalty and the systems behind them.
Logistics and supply chain
Freight, distribution and supply-chain platforms where integration decides margins.
Insurance and insurtech
Underwriting, claims and distribution technology that needs engineering capacity fast.
Common questions
How do the time zones work between the US and India?
India is nine and a half to ten and a half hours ahead of the US East Coast. Set the India team to an afternoon and evening schedule and you get a real live window with the US morning, several hours every day for stand-ups, reviews and pairing, and a genuine follow-the-sun cadence for the rest: work moves forward in India while your US day is over, and is ready for you the next morning. We tune the team's hours to your East, Central or West Coast day.
How does the cost compare to hiring engineers in the US?
A fully loaded Outpost seat in India typically costs a fraction of an equivalent senior hire in the US, with no recruitment commission on top and no margin buried in an hourly rate. You are not competing head to head with Big Tech compensation for every seat, and there is no retention bidding war, because keeping the team whole is our responsibility. We price each engagement against your actual roles and give you a clear per-seat figure before you commit.
Is this for startups and fintechs, or only large companies?
Both. US startups and scale-ups use Outpost to add senior engineering capacity without burning runway on US salaries, and larger companies use it to stand up a dedicated team without opening their own India entity. PeopleCap is a specialist financial-services and fintech talent firm, so a fintech, payments or banking 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 US 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.