Nearshore outsourcing

With nearshoring, you outsource business activities to relatively nearby countries. At SharpMinds, you build your remote development team in Portugal, Bosnia Herzegovina or Ukraine.

To find out whether nearshore outsourcing is the right solution for your organization, it is good to check the list below:
• You want to expand your current development capacity or you want to set up a new team
• You are set up to work remotely
• You expect consistent quality
• Communicating in English is no problem for you
• You want to be able to switch quickly with your developers
• You want direct access to development capacity
• You are looking for high-quality developers

At Sharpminds, the remote employees are within the time zone or with a maximum difference of 1 hour.

From one of our offices in Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine. In addition, the developer also has the option to work from home.

Need Developer? Depending on the profile, it takes us an average of 6 to 8 weeks to find suitable candidates for a vacancy. As soon as we have found it, we introduce the developer to you and we start building/expanding your remote development team. 

For us, guaranteeing quality already starts in the application process. Before we introduce a developer to you, we have already done an initial screening of the soft skills and we have had a technical interview to assess the hard skills of the candidate. After all, the developers we are looking for have the same skills as your team here in the Netherlands and can perform at the same level. In the longer term, we guarantee quality by conducting an evaluation every six months with the developer, the development team and the customer. 

There is always a two-month trial period for every developer. During this period, the contract can be canceled daily. After the trial period, it is possible to cancel the contract on a monthly basis. 

An evaluation takes place every six months. Within this evaluation there is the possibility for the customer to assess the developer, the developer assesses himself or herself on his or her performance and there is an evaluation within the team. 

English. To guarantee the quality, our remote software developers receive weekly lessons in language and communication. 

You! We have learned from our experience that direct contact with the developers works best. After all, you have the most in-house knowledge about your product and market. By switching immediately, the chance of noise and therefore miscommunication is minimized. You determine the working method yourself; for example with sprint sessions and monthly deadlines. You can also determine the tools with which you work. Because the remote developer is part of your own team, these are usually just the methods and tools that are already being used.