Short answer
A dedicated development team is a group of engineers, designers and QA specialists who work full time on your product under a monthly contract, without you hiring them directly. Infikey assembles the team for your stack, provides delivery management if you need it, and scales it up or down as your roadmap changes. Teams typically cost USD 6,000–30,000 per month.
Updated · Written by the Infikey Technologies delivery team
Team models
| Model | How it works | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Staff augmentation | Our engineers join your team and follow your processes | Companies with a strong tech lead |
| Managed team | We provide a tech lead and delivery manager; you set priorities | Founders without in-house engineering management |
| Product pod | Cross-functional pod (design, engineering, QA) owning a product area | Scaling products with several workstreams |
How we keep a remote team productive
- Overlap hours with your time zone for stand-ups, planning and reviews, whether you are in India, the UAE, the UK or the US.
- Your tools: Jira or Linear, GitHub or GitLab, Slack or Teams. Everything stays in accounts you own.
- Engineering standards: code review on every change, automated tests, CI/CD and documented decisions.
- Visible progress: sprint demos, burn-down and a monthly report on delivery and quality.
- Continuity: knowledge sharing within the team so holidays and changes do not stall work.
Deciding between building in-house and outsourcing? Read in-house vs outsourced development and offshore vs nearshore vs onshore.
Cost
| Team | Monthly budget (USD) | Monthly budget (INR) |
|---|---|---|
| Two engineers | 6,000–10,000 | 5–8 lakh |
| Pod: three engineers, QA and part-time designer | 12,000–20,000 | 10–16 lakh |
| Larger team with tech lead and delivery manager | 20,000–30,000+ | 16–25 lakh+ |
These are planning ranges, not quotes, and depend on seniority and stack. For pricing models, see fixed price vs time and materials.
Project blueprint
Product pod for a seed-stage SaaS company
Based on the requirements we hear most often from buyers like this.
A seed-funded SaaS company has a technical co-founder and two in-house engineers, and a roadmap that needs twice the capacity. Hiring locally is slow and expensive, and the founders want people who stay on the product rather than rotating freelancers.
What we would build
- A pod of engineers, a QA specialist and a part-time designer working in the company’s own tools
- Shared sprint planning, code review and release process with the in-house team
- Automated tests and CI/CD so both teams can ship safely
- Monthly delivery and quality report for the founders
How success is measured
- Roadmap items delivered per sprint
- Escaped defects found in production
- Cost per delivered feature against local hiring
- Founder time spent managing engineering