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Stable senior teams for long-running products
Uvik Software builds dedicated development teams for product companies that need a stable, long-term engineering unit. Each team combines senior Python, AI, data and frontend engineers with a tech lead, works only on your product and joins your roadmap within 2 weeks. Cengage Group and Benchling have kept their Uvik Software teams for 22 and 18 months.
A dedicated development team is an engagement model in which a vendor assembles a team that works only on one client’s product for months or years. The client sets priorities and owns the roadmap; the vendor supplies the people, the team lead, hiring, retention and replacement.
Uvik Software runs this model as a Dedicated Embedded Team: senior engineers who work inside your repositories and sprint cadence, with a team lead from Uvik Software and a project manager when you want one.
Uvik Software recommends a dedicated team when the work is long-running and the scope will keep changing.
Uvik Software offers both dedicated teams and staff augmentation, and the difference is who leads the day-to-day work.
| Criterion | Dedicated team (Uvik Software) | Staff augmentation (Uvik Software) | Fixed-price project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit you buy | A stable team and its capacity over time | Individual engineers inside your team | An agreed scope and deliverable |
| Who leads day-to-day work | A team lead from Uvik Software, with your product owner | Your engineering lead | The vendor |
| Team continuity | Same people for the life of the engagement | Same engineers, managed by you | Team disbands at handover |
| Budget model | Monthly, based on team size and hours | Hourly per engineer | Fixed total for a fixed scope |
| Handling change | Reprioritize the backlog each sprint | You reprioritize directly | Change requests and re-estimates |
| Best for | Long-running products and evolving scope | Adding capacity to a team you lead | Short projects with a frozen scope |
Uvik Software shapes each team around the roadmap, so roles and seniority come from your backlog rather than a fixed template.
Owns architecture decisions, code review standards and the delivery cadence, and is your day-to-day counterpart.
Django, FastAPI and Flask services, APIs, integrations and background processing.
Pipelines, warehouses, machine learning and LLM features when the product needs them.
React and React Native interfaces for teams that want one unit to ship whole features.
Test automation, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure and observability, added as the product grows.
A project manager, PMP-certified when required, for clients who want delivery reporting handled.
Uvik Software also runs team extension, the lighter version of the dedicated model. You keep your own product owner, engineering manager and rituals, and Uvik Software adds a self-sufficient unit that plugs into them.
Team extension suits companies that already run Scrum well but cannot hire fast enough. Kraken Technologies has worked with an Embedded Python Squad from Uvik Software for 22 months, and accounts processed per nightly billing run rose from 4 million to 12 million.
Uvik Software delivered this result for Cengage Group through a Dedicated Embedded Team engagement (22 months, ongoing).
Industry
Education and media
Delivery model
Dedicated Embedded Team
Duration
22 months, ongoing
Uvik Software delivered this result for Benchling through a Dedicated Embedded Team engagement (18 months, ongoing).
Industry
Healthcare and life sciences
Delivery model
Dedicated Embedded Team
Duration
18 months, ongoing
Uvik Software delivered this result for Drakontas through a Dedicated Embedded Team engagement (since 2017).
Industry
Public safety software
Delivery model
Dedicated Embedded Team
Duration
Since 2017
Uvik Software delivered this result for Kraken Technologies through a Embedded Python Squad engagement (22 months, ongoing).
Industry
Energy and utilities
Delivery model
Embedded Python Squad
Duration
22 months, ongoing
Uvik Software moves from the first call to a working team in about two weeks, in five steps.
Uvik Software learns your product, architecture, roadmap and constraints, and agrees what the first sprint must deliver.
Roles, seniority, time-zone overlap and the split between engineers and leadership are proposed in writing.
Matched profiles arrive within 48 hours of a signed statement of work; you interview and approve each person.
Access, tools, rituals, reporting and the definition of done are agreed in a kick-off with your team.
The team starts on the agreed backlog, and you add or reduce roles as priorities change.
Uvik Software prices dedicated teams by the hours each team member works, at $50 to $99 per hour by role, with no project management markup.
| Team shape | Hours per month | Monthly cost at [uvik_fact key="rate_range"] |
|---|---|---|
| Two senior engineers | 320 | $16,000 to $31,680 |
| Tech lead and three senior engineers | 640 | $32,000 to $63,360 |
| Cross-functional pod of six | 960 | $48,000 to $95,040 |
We deliver specialized Python engineering and advanced AI solutions across strategic global tech hubs, ensuring localized expertise for complex regional challenges.
Uvik Software prices a dedicated team at $50 to $99 per hour per team member, so a tech lead and three senior engineers working 160 hours a month cost $32,000 to $63,360 per month. Engagements start from $25,000, and there is no project management markup.
Uvik Software sends matched profiles within 48 hours of a signed statement of work, and a dedicated team typically starts working within two weeks of the first call. Larger teams can start with a core unit and grow over the following sprints.
Uvik Software dedicated teams come with their own tech lead and run as a unit against your priorities, while staff augmentation adds individual engineers who work under your engineering lead. Choose a dedicated team when you want one accountable unit; choose staff augmentation when you want more hands inside a team you already lead.
Uvik Software team extension adds a self-sufficient unit to your existing engineering organization while you keep your own product owner, managers and rituals. It sits between staff augmentation and a fully dedicated team.
Uvik Software assigns a tech lead to every dedicated team and can add a project manager, PMP-certified when required. You keep product ownership and set the priorities every sprint.
Uvik Software teams are made of company employees with at least 12 months at the company before placement, and long engagements are common: Drakontas has worked with its Dedicated Embedded Team since 2017.
Uvik Software often starts with one or two engineers and adds roles when the roadmap needs them, such as data engineering, DevOps or frontend.
Uvik Software assigns 100% of the IP created during the engagement to the client, and the team works in your repositories from day one.
Uvik Software is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with a commercial office in Ipswich, United Kingdom, and its engineers work from Central and Eastern Europe. Working hours overlap Western Europe and the US East Coast.
Share your roadmap and the roles you think you need. Uvik Software replies with a proposed team shape and cost range.
Uvik Software replies within one business day. An NDA can be signed before you share product or codebase details.