Nearshore development
Nearshore software development, in your own working day
Nearshore only pays off if it removes work rather than moving it. Ours is a team near Barcelona in CET, inside the EU, staffed by senior engineers who join your stand-up and answer the same day the question is asked.
- CETYour working day, in full
- EUData, contract and jurisdiction
- SeniorNo junior substitution
What nearshore with us actually means
The things that decide whether this works
Every supplier says senior and says communication. These are the specifics you can check before signing.
One working day, fully overlapped
CET covers the European day end to end and reaches the US East Coast morning. A question asked at 16:00 gets an answer at 16:00, not tomorrow.
Inside the EU
Your data stays in EU regions and the contract sits under EU law. GDPR is a starting condition, not a clause someone has to engineer around later.
ENS Medium certified
Independently certified against the Spanish National Security Framework (RD 311/2022) — the assurance regulated buyers and public-sector procurement ask for.
The senior you met stays
The engineer who designs your system is the one you can call about it a year later. No pyramid, no handover to a cheaper bench after signature.
Three working languages
English, Spanish and Catalan. Written English good enough that documentation and PR review need no translation layer.
Two hours from most of Europe
When something needs a room rather than a call, Barcelona is a short flight and people are willing to make it.
How an engagement starts
Small enough to be reversible, real enough to prove something
A conversation with the engineer, not a salesperson
Thirty minutes on what you are building and what is currently in the way. You will get an opinion, including if the opinion is that you do not need us.
A scoped first piece
One deliverable with a date, chosen because it is genuinely useful on its own. This is where you find out how we work, at a cost that is easy to walk away from.
Embed or extend
Either the team joins your process as a dedicated squad, or we own a defined slice end to end. Both are normal; which one depends on whether you have engineering leadership to spare.
Scale by sprint
Up when a roadmap lands, down when it does not, without a recruitment cycle or a redundancy conversation.
Nearshore versus offshore
The saving is real. The question is what it costs you to collect it
A distant time zone looks cheaper per hour and often is. What it adds is latency: a question asked at the end of your day is answered at the end of theirs, so a misunderstanding costs a day to discover and another to correct. On work that is well specified and rarely changes, that is a fine trade. On product work, where the specification is what you are still discovering, it is the expensive kind of cheap.
Nearshore inside the EU is the middle option, and it is honest about being a middle option: not the lowest rate available, and not the overhead of hiring in London, Amsterdam or Munich. What you buy is the same-day loop, one legal jurisdiction, and a team you can actually visit.
We would rather you compared us on that than on rate alone. The checklist below is the one we use ourselves, including the questions we would rather a client asked us.
Common questions
What buyers ask about nearshore
What is nearshore software development?
Contracting an engineering team in a nearby country rather than a distant one — for a European buyer, typically within one or two hours of your own time zone and inside the same legal and regulatory bloc. The point is not geography for its own sake: it is that a shared working day and a shared jurisdiction remove coordination cost that an hourly rate does not show.
How is this different from offshore or from freelancers?
Offshore usually means a rate advantage paid for in feedback latency, and it works best on well-specified work that changes slowly. Freelancers are excellent for a bounded piece and carry a real single-point-of-failure risk on anything you intend to operate for years.
Nearshore with an employed team sits between them: more expensive per hour than offshore, considerably less than hiring in-house in northern Europe, and with the continuity of people who are still there next year.
Who owns the code?
You do — the code, the infrastructure, the accounts and the documentation, from the first commit. We do not retain a licence, and there is no piece of it you would need us to hand over later.
What happens if we want to bring it in-house?
Then that is the goal we build toward, and saying so early makes it cheaper. Written architecture decisions, no bespoke tooling only we understand, and a handover that is a matter of access rather than archaeology. A partner who makes leaving expensive is telling you something.
Do you work with companies outside Spain?
Yes — most of our work is for clients outside Spain, and we work in English throughout where that is the shared language. The case studies name the clients and describe the work, so you can judge the fit rather than take our word for it.
What size of team can you field?
We deliberately stay small, which is what lets us put senior people on your project and keep them there. That makes us a good fit for a squad you need to be genuinely good and a poor fit for a request for forty developers next month — and we will say so rather than staffing it thinly.
Tell us what you are trying to build
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer, in your working day, and an honest read on whether nearshore is the right shape for it.