How we work
STAFF AUGMENTATION
Hiring a senior engineer locally takes months. We send vetted CVs within 48 hours and onboard developers who work as part of your team.
Your tools, your stand-ups, your Jira board. Most of our clients run hybrid setups: in-house engineers in Sweden, augmented developers from us in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Same time zone. One monthly invoice. No recruitment fees, no payroll, no pension, no office desk to pay for.
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WHAT SETS US APART?
The developers who join your team stay for years, push to your repo, and know your product as well as anyone you hired directly. We handle their contracts, retention, and HR. You manage the work.
First vetted CVs in your inbox. You interview, you decide.
Your code, your repo, clean handover whenever you say.
Started with one developer
A Swedish B2B ecommerce leader started with 2 of our developers. Six years later, our team runs their store and a smart product alongside their in-house engineers.
A Swedish industrial tooling manufacturer started with one developer. She became a star in their team. The trust she built opened the door for more product managers and developers from us.
A global manufacturer in cargo handling needed a mobile team to digitize their machine commissioning process. We built it. The app cut their delivery process down by 103%.
EXPERTISE
Our stack is built around handoff quality. We work with the same design and development tools used by the teams building Spotify, Figma, and Klarna.
YOUR FIRST CALL
Senad and Nikola founded Zendev in 2016. Haris leads growth. They’ll be on the first call, in the proposal, and stay close as the engagement scales. Project ownership sits with the team lead and account manager you’ll meet during onboarding.
FAQ
Yes. The developers join your team, follow your process, and report into your management structure. We handle their employment contract, payroll, equipment, and HR. You assign tasks, run stand-ups, and review code. Most clients treat their augmented developers exactly like in-house engineers — same Slack, same Jira, same sprint cadence.
Tell us within the first month and we replace them at no extra cost. The replacement uses the same vetting process and the same 48-hour CV turnaround. We don’t push back, we don’t argue — your team, your call. After the first month, replacements happen with a notice period like any team change.
Staff augmentation means individual developers slot into your existing team. You manage them, they work in your sprints, you set the priorities. A dedicated team is a full unit operating as your remote department — separate management layer, team lead from us, coordinated as one team. Most Zendev clients start with augmentation and grow into a dedicated team if the work justifies it.
Roughly 40 to 50 percent less in total cost. Local hires come with payroll, pension, vacation, sick leave, parental leave, equipment, and office space — usually 30 to 40 percent on top of the gross salary. With us, you get one monthly invoice that covers everything. We can send a sample quote based on the role and seniority you need.
Every developer we send has been technically interviewed by our team, has at least three years of professional experience, and has worked on commercial codebases similar to your stack. We check English fluency, communication style, and how they handle code review. CVs only go out if the developer matches the role brief — we don’t pad shortlists.
It’s yours from day one. The developer commits to your repository, signs your NDA, and works under your IP assignment terms. We don’t keep copies, we don’t reuse code on other projects, and there’s no licensing or buy-back at the end. When the engagement ends, you keep everything.
Mostar and Sarajevo, Bosnia. Same time zone as Stockholm, Berlin, and most of Europe. Standard working hours overlap with Western European business hours. We’re 90 minutes by flight from Stockholm if you want to meet in person, and most of our team has worked with Swedish or German clients for years.
Yes. We sign DPAs, NDAs, and whatever security agreements your procurement requires. All developers are Europe based, all data processing happens within EU jurisdiction, and we have standard procedures for security review, vendor onboarding, and audit support. Send us your forms and we’ll fill them in.
