IT Staff Augmentation Services in Eastern Europe

Strengthen your team with senior engineers from our offices in Estonia and Poland. We embed skilled professionals into your existing team for short or long-term projects  ready in 1-8 weeks.

Rent additional resources by adding skilled remote developers, DevOps, QA specialists, or entire engineering teams from a trusted Eastern European partner.

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Who Should Use IT Staff Augmentation Services?

If you run a development team and:

  • A key team member is leaving or has already lef
  • You need to scale your team rapidly
  • You’re missing specialized skills that are hard to find
  • Your team needs fresh ideas and industry best practices
  • You want the flexibility to enhance your team’s efficiency without the need for long-term hires.
  • You have an urgent project that requires immediate expert support

Team Extension Benefits

Agility and Cost-effectiveness

IT staff augmentation services allow your business to expand its technical capabilities without the overheads of direct hiring. This streamlined approach ensures agility and cost-effectiveness in meeting your project needs.

Flexibility and Expertise Access

IT staff augmentation offers ultimate flexibility, reducing recruitment time and giving you access to a wide range of expertise tailored to your roadmap. We can ramp a team of 2–8 engineers in 1–8 weeks (vs 3–6 months of in-house hiring).


 Dedicated Focus


Most suitable if you need developers who will focus 100% on your assignments for a more extended period (6+ months). Our IT staff augmentation services provide skilled professionals focused solely on your assignments.

Strategic Talent Acquisition

Our IT staff augmentation service is built for fast scale-up in high-demand areas Java, Python, .NET, DevOps, AI, machine learning, data engineering — exactly the roles where local European talent is rare or expensive.

Journey to Kickoff takes usually 1-8 weeks

A proven 5-step process that delivers results. From rapid project initiation to long-term partnership, we ensure your success at every stage.

Discussyour bussiness challenges
Step 1
Choosepreferred way of working
Step 2
ReceiveDevelopers CV’s or project proposal
Step 3
ConductSelection Interviews
Step 4
Startthe work
Step 5
1-8 weeks start
250+ developers
Specialists from Poland and Estonia

How IT Staff Augmentation Works

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Our IT staff augmentation services seamlessly integrate expert developers into your team, enhancing project flexibility and scalability through efficient team extension services.
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Fill out the request form to describe your needs
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Receive candidates within
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Kickoff and onboarding

How You Win With Outsourcing to Netcorp

With Netcorp you get senior engineers from our nearshore teams in Poland and Estonia and a clear delivery process.

Quick Start Without Delays

Get your project moving in 1–8 weeks. We match you with the right people fast, without the long recruitment process.

Experienced and Reliable

With over 15 years of experience in software development and 250+ engineers from Poland and Estonia, we've successfully delivered projects across industries.

Skilled Developers

Work with senior developers across backend, frontend, mobile, cloud, and data. Teams can be adjusted to fit your project.

Easy to Work With

Working in your time zone from Europe, our developers join your workflow and tools, fitting smoothly into sprint planning and design reviews, so collaboration stays simple.

Quality and Security Built In

Clean code, reviews, automated tests, and EU-based, GDPR-aligned data handling are part of our process from day one. You keep full control of your codebase.

Proactive and Culturally Experienced

Our teams share close cultural alignment and overlapping working hours with Western and Northern European clients, so collaboration stays smooth and projects move without delays.

Our Software Development Services

Artur Rihvk
Product Manager at 1oT

Flexibility is the key value we’ve taken from this cooperation. We chose nearshoring for the balance between cost and efficiency. Netcorp works best for organizations with a core team in place, and when scaling up from a small team, their services are ideal. I would recommend Netcorp’s services, as they fit the problem nicely and help tackle issues effectively, provided the client has a clear plan.

Petter Tancred Olsen
Nong & Petters CEO

Netcorp's developers helped us build out our software platform, and they did a fantastic job. They consistently delivered on time and within budget, and their communication was excellent throughout. What stood out was how proactive they were in finding solutions, often catching potential issues before we even noticed. We’re incredibly satisfied with their work.

Andri Vanem
Head of Software Development, Estonian Energy

Nowadays, finding good quality developers is a lot of work. Netcorp helped us ease that problem. Compared to other companies on the market, Netcorp offered developers who had really high standards, in the amount that was needed for us. Netcorp’s services can be described as very trustworthy. We get our responses very fast, and the profiles that we get prove their quality. Communication with them is very easy.

Aslak Os
CEO of Rocketfarm

Working with Netcorp felt like they were part of our internal team. They were always quick to respond and tackled every challenge head-on. Their technical expertise helped us meet our deadlines, and they were great at sticking to the budget we set. It’s rare to find a nearshore team that integrates so well. I highly recommend Netcorp for any software development needs.

Jaanus Rõõmus
CTO

Netcorp is a trustworthy company that provides developers who can provide value fast and match very well with our internal team. Their developers are also stable and stay long-term in our team.

Shawn Harrs
Chief Information Officer

Netcorp is a trustworthy company that provides developers who can provide value fast and match very well with our internal team. Their developers are also stable and stay long-term in our team.

Stein Wallevik
Dark Horse, Founder and Lead Stragetist

Netcorp has a ‘Scandinavian mind’ in their business approach, which helped address hesitations about working with companies from other cultures. Netcorp’s flexible model, allowing us to insource or offshore as needed, was the ideal solution.  It was a relief knowing we had this scalable, high-end group of resources, so I can focus more on technology development projects, confident I have great resources from Netcorp.

Urmo Aava
Ex-WRC Driver and Co-Founder of Rally Estonia

They are just like us: innovative, flexible, and fast. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone, since we want to keep them to ourselves 🙂

Anders Willstedt
CTO

Netcorp did a fantastic job – they quickly understood our systems and goals and worked hard to migrate all systems.

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Anu Pedosk
Project Manager

They can be described as profound knowledge of systems, good working procedures,
and high-quality code.

How Can Outsourcing Software Development Help My Business

What are the benefits of outsourcing to a nearshore software development company in Eastern Europe?

Hiring a nearshore software development company in Eastern Europe gives you immediate access to a senior, vetted engineering team without the cost and time of in-house recruitment. The benefits of nearshoring with Netcorp;

  • Faster time-to-market:  teams ready in 1–8 weeks instead of 4–6 months
  • Senior engineers across the modern stack:  backend, frontend, mobile, data, AI/ML, cloud
  • Full working-day overlap with the UK, DACH, and the Nordics
  • EU GDPR-native delivery: code and data stay inside the European Union
  • Flexible team scaling: scale up or down by 2–10 engineers per quarter
  • Lower overhead: typical 30–50% cost reduction versus hiring locally in Western Europe
  • Focus on your core business: your internal team owns strategy, the nearshore team owns delivery

With Netcorp specifically, you also get 15+ years of European delivery experience, 60+ shipped projects, and project leadership based in an EU member state.

Should I choose offshoring, nearshoring, or onshoring?

Onshoring (hiring in your home country) gives you the closest collaboration but the highest cost and the smallest talent pool.

Offshoring (Asia or Latin America from a European point of view) is usually less expensive but requires more management overhead, has higher communication friction, and the average coding quality is lower across large outsourced delivery centres.

Nearshoring (Eastern Europe for European companies) is the most productive of the three for European buyers. You get full working-day overlap, similar business culture, EU jurisdiction, GDPR-native delivery, and senior engineers at 30–50% less than onshore rates.

For simpler, well-defined tasks, offshoring works. For anything business-critical, anything that needs ongoing iteration, or anything that handles EU customer data, nearshoring to Eastern Europe is the right choice.

How do I choose the right nearshore outsourcing partner?

A good selection process protects you from the most common (and expensive) mistakes. The seven steps that work:

  1. Define the scope of work, write a one-page brief covering the problem, the users, success metrics, and constraints
  2. Vet the expertise level, ask for engineer CVs upfront, not just company case studies
  3. Check market reputation, Clutch, GoodFirms, and named references on LinkedIn
  4. Communicate clearly about budget, be transparent about rate expectations and total budget; trustworthy partners reply transparently
  5. Protect your data, and IP  signed NDA before discovery, signed GDPR DPA before kickoff, source code escrow on long engagements
  6. Use Agile methodologies, fixed weekly sprints, weekly demos, and retrospectives every two weeks
  7. Choose a flexible partner, one that can scale your team up or down by 2–5 engineers per quarter without contract renegotiation

For each step, ask the partner to show you exactly how they handle it on a current client.

How much will software development cost?

Software development costs vary widely depending on project scope, team size, and location. As a general guideline, a small web or mobile application typically starts from €20,000–€50,000, mid-size projects range from €50,000–€200,000, and large enterprise solutions can exceed €200,000. Nearshore developers in Eastern Europe (Estonia, Poland) typically cost €40–€80 per hour, offering a strong balance of quality and cost-efficiency. For a detailed breakdown of outsourcing costs, visit our full guide on Software Development Costs.

How do I seamlessly integrate a nearshore team into my own product development?

Treat them as if they were your own employees.

It really doesn't matter what contracts they hold or which company pays their salary — people are people, and if you treat the nearshore team as part of your own team, the attitude, loyalty, and ownership will follow naturally. In practice this means:

  • Daily stand-ups with everyone on the same call
  • Shared roadmap and shared decision-making, not vendor-style "deliverables"
  • The same Slack channels, the same Linear/Jira board, the same retrospectives
  • Visit your nearshore team in person at least once a year — and invite them to your office too

The geographic distance disappears within the first few weeks if you remove the cultural distance.

Where to outsource from (what region)?

The best outsourcing regions combine close timezone alignment, strong technical universities, sufficient developer talent, and business-friendly legislation. Eastern Europe, particularly Estonia, Poland, and Ukraine, consistently ranks among the top destinations for software outsourcing due to high coding standards, cultural compatibility with Western clients, and competitive rates. For a full country-by-country comparison, see our guide on Best Software Outsourcing Countries.

What to outsource and what to keep in-house?

Almost any part of software development can be outsourced today: engineering, QA, DevOps, design, even product management. But we recommend keeping a small in-house team that owns long-term knowledge of your business logic, customer relationships, and core IP. That in-house core makes sure your systems and services stay alive when an outsourcing engagement ends or changes shape.

A 30-minute software development outsourcing consultation with Netcorp can help you decide where the right line sits for your specific business; what to outsource, what to nearshore, and what to keep close.

How to avoid expensive mistakes in outsourcing?

Read Netcorp's Outsourcing Guide, talk to 4-5 people who have done outsourcing in a different way, get a free software development outsourcing consultation from us and you should be prepared to avoid the most expensive mistakes in outsourcing software development.

How do I avoid expensive mistakes in outsourcing?

The five most expensive mistakes and how to avoid them:

  1. Hiring on rate alone, the cheapest team is rarely the cheapest project. Pick on senior-engineer tenure, not on hourly rate
  2. No clear product owner on your side; the team needs daily decisions; without an empowered PO on your end, work stalls
  3. Vague Statement of Work fix scope, fix timelines, fix acceptance criteria, before kickoff
  4. No agreed communication cadence daily stand-up, weekly demo, bi-weekly retrospective is the minimum
  5. Ignoring time-zone overlap if your team works 9–5 CET and your vendor works 9–5 IST, you lose a day every day.

How to make existing outsourcing cooperation work?

Communication is the key. Set up communication structures which allow you to have close contact with each other and sync often. Physical meetings after a few months are also a great way to improve relations and productivity. A software development outsourcing consultation can help establish these communication frameworks.

Access to Expert Developers with IT Staff Augmentation

IT staff augmentation lets you hire software developers from a trusted IT company on an hourly or monthly basis, allowing fast onboarding, flexible scaling options, and eliminating recruitment and employment costs. You get senior engineers across the modern stack, all working from our Estonia and Poland offices. With this model, you can bring in full stack, frontend, backend, web, cloud, devops and mobile developers as needed for your project’s specific needs.
Artur Rihvk
Product Manager at 1oT

Flexibility is the key value we’ve taken from this cooperation. We chose nearshoring for the balance between cost and efficiency. Netcorp works best for organizations with a core team in place, and when scaling up from a small team, their services are ideal. I would recommend Netcorp’s services, as they fit the problem nicely and help tackle issues effectively, provided the client has a clear plan.

Petter Tancred Olsen
Nong & Petters CEO

Netcorp's developers helped us build out our software platform, and they did a fantastic job. They consistently delivered on time and within budget, and their communication was excellent throughout. What stood out was how proactive they were in finding solutions, often catching potential issues before we even noticed. We’re incredibly satisfied with their work.

Andri Vanem
Head of Software Development, Estonian Energy

Nowadays, finding good quality developers is a lot of work. Netcorp helped us ease that problem. Compared to other companies on the market, Netcorp offered developers who had really high standards, in the amount that was needed for us. Netcorp’s services can be described as very trustworthy. We get our responses very fast, and the profiles that we get prove their quality. Communication with them is very easy.

Aslak Os
CEO of Rocketfarm

Working with Netcorp felt like they were part of our internal team. They were always quick to respond and tackled every challenge head-on. Their technical expertise helped us meet our deadlines, and they were great at sticking to the budget we set. It’s rare to find a nearshore team that integrates so well. I highly recommend Netcorp for any software development needs.

Jaanus Rõõmus
CTO

Netcorp is a trustworthy company that provides developers who can provide value fast and match very well with our internal team. Their developers are also stable and stay long-term in our team.

Shawn Harrs
Chief Information Officer

Netcorp is a trustworthy company that provides developers who can provide value fast and match very well with our internal team. Their developers are also stable and stay long-term in our team.

Stein Wallevik
Dark Horse, Founder and Lead Stragetist

Netcorp has a ‘Scandinavian mind’ in their business approach, which helped address hesitations about working with companies from other cultures. Netcorp’s flexible model, allowing us to insource or offshore as needed, was the ideal solution.  It was a relief knowing we had this scalable, high-end group of resources, so I can focus more on technology development projects, confident I have great resources from Netcorp.

Urmo Aava
Ex-WRC Driver and Co-Founder of Rally Estonia

They are just like us: innovative, flexible, and fast. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone, since we want to keep them to ourselves 🙂

Anders Willstedt
CTO

Netcorp did a fantastic job – they quickly understood our systems and goals and worked hard to migrate all systems.

reachu logo
Anu Pedosk
Project Manager

They can be described as profound knowledge of systems, good working procedures,
and high-quality code.

FAQs on Team Extension Services

What distinguishes IT staff augmentation from traditional hiring?

Unlike traditional outsourcing, where an entire project or process is handed over to an external party, IT staff augmentation lets you retain control over the project while gaining access to specialised skills. The external professionals integrate with your team, work under your supervision, and let you quickly adjust team size based on project requirements, without the cost or delay of permanent hiring.

How does IT staff augmentation contribute to project success?

IT staff augmentation provides access to specialised skills and expertise that may not be available within your in-house team, offering scalability and the ability to quickly adjust team size based on project requirements. With our Eastern Europe teams in Estonia and Poland, you also gain time-zone overlap with the UK, DACH, and the Nordics, daily stand-ups at normal hours, not late at night.

Does IT staff augmentation lead to increased costs?

A staff augmentation engagement often costs less than direct recruitment. Hiring an engineer through Netcorp removes the time and money spent on recruitment. The rate includes office expenses, equipment, holiday pay, sickness benefits, unemployment insurance, and pension payments; none of which you pay separately. Termination of the contract is typically with one month's notice, with no severance pay or complex employment law involved. Even when the hourly rate looks higher than a junior in-house hire, the all-in cost of staff augmentation usually proves more cost-effective.

How flexible is IT staff augmentation in adapting to changing project needs?

Staff augmentation offers unparalleled flexibility;  adjust your team's size and skill set to meet evolving project requirements. Whether you need to scale by 2 engineers or 10, our Eastern Europe talent pool means we can typically staff within 1–8 weeks.

What should I look for when choosing a staff augmentation partner?

Look for access to a niche and varied talent pool, flexibility to scale your team as needed, and time-zone compatibility for smooth collaboration. Ensure they offer quick onboarding, transparent pricing with no hidden fees, and that the engineers integrate seamlessly into your existing team. Our delivery hubs in Estonia and Poland tick every one of those boxes.

How quickly can I scale my team with Netcorp?

We typically place senior engineers within 1–8 weeks of an agreed brief. Replacement of any engineer happens on 24-hour notice — no contract renegotiation, no questions asked.

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