Custom software development in Bengaluru
Not every Bengaluru business is a startup. The manufacturers in Peenya, the hospital groups, the logistics firms and the property managers often run their operations on spreadsheets, a legacy system nobody dares touch, and a set of WhatsApp groups where the real decisions get made. Information lives in the wrong place, and the owner learns what happened last week from a phone call.
We build the internal tool that replaces that. A web app for the office, a phone page or mobile app for the people on the floor or in the field, and one backend under both, so a job logged by a technician is the job the manager sees. FM360, the facilities platform we built for a healthcare estate, is exactly that shape. Being in the same city means we can watch the process being done before we design the software for it.
Bengaluru is where we live and work, so this page is less a pitch than a description of the market we see every week. The defining fact about it is that startups and global capability centres, the in-house engineering offices of foreign companies, are competing for the same engineers. A GCC can offer a larger salary, a guaranteed bonus and a stable employer. A Series A startup offers equity and a harder job. The engineer you want usually has more than one offer, a notice period to serve, and a counter-offer waiting. So the roadmap slips while the hiring plan catches up.
The companies that call us here come in a few recognisable shapes. Startups whose first backend was written by an engineer who has since left, often for one of those GCCs. SaaS companies built in Bengaluru and sold to customers in the US and Europe from the first year, now closing their first enterprise account and the feature list that comes with it. Deep tech teams in space, robotics, semiconductors and applied AI, where the core work is research or hardware and the software around it, the dashboards, device APIs and data pipelines, is nobody's job. And GCC leaders who need a working proof of concept before headquarters will approve the headcount to build the real thing.
What they need built is usually a defined piece rather than a whole product. A backend mapped, documented and made safe to change. Single sign-on, custom roles and tenant isolation for the enterprise deal. A device API and a dashboard for a robotics team whose engineers would rather be working on the robot. A proof of concept a GCC can demo to its parent company. We build those in your repository, in increments that ship, and write the architecture notes and runbooks as we go, so whoever you hire next can read them in their first week.
We share your time zone, so the working day is the same on both sides and a question asked in the morning is answered in the morning. Because we are in the same city, a kickoff or an architecture session can happen at your office rather than on a call. Most of the work still happens in writing, in your repository and your chat, because a decision written down survives the people who made it.
We are the right fit when you have a defined piece of work and want a senior engineer on it this month rather than after a hiring round. Start with a fixed-price two-week piece and judge us on what ships. We also cover the months before your next hire joins, and work white-label for Bengaluru agencies under your name.
Four ways this arrives.
Approvals, schedules or stock, tracked in a shared file with colour codes only one person understands. We turn it into an application with proper records, permissions and history, so you can see who changed what and when, and nobody works from an old copy.
Staff copy data from one system into another by hand, and the two slowly drift apart. We connect them through their APIs, clean up the data where it crosses over, and alert someone when a sync fails instead of letting it fail quietly.
The numbers exist, spread across exports and inboxes, and someone assembles a report by hand every Monday. We pull them into one place, build the dashboard the people making decisions will actually open, and check it is current rather than trusting the job that feeds it.
A legacy application still runs the business and every change to it is a risk. We map what it really does, move it piece by piece onto something maintainable, and keep both running until the last piece has landed. No weekend cut-over.
A facilities operations platform for a healthcare estate, built so supervisors can see what is overdue and what keeps coming back without exporting spreadsheets by hand.
Read the write-up →Asked by Bengaluru teams.
Can we meet in person?+
Yes. We are in Bengaluru, so a kickoff, a design review or a whiteboard session at your office is easy to arrange. We share your time zone, so calls happen inside your normal working day. Day to day we work in your tools, Slack, GitHub and Linear or whatever you already use, and you talk directly to the engineer writing the code. In-person time is best spent on the first architecture discussion and the handover.
Do you build for Bengaluru SaaS companies selling abroad?+
Yes, and it is one of the most common pieces of work we see here. We build what the first overseas enterprise customer asks for: single sign-on, custom roles, tenant isolation that holds under a missing filter, a log of who changed what, and billing through Stripe that copes with several currencies. The work happens inside your product, in increments that ship, so the deal keeps moving while the list gets shorter.
How does your rate compare to hiring in Bengaluru?+
PayScale puts a mid-career software engineer in Bengaluru at about ₹18 lakh a year. Our published rate is $35 an hour, with a $5,000 minimum. For that you get a senior engineer who writes the code, works in your Slack, GitHub and Linear, and starts within days, with no recruiting round, notice period or employment overhead. Begin with a fixed-price two-week piece at $2,800 and judge us on what ships.
We keep losing engineers to GCCs. How can you help?+
We add senior capacity while you rebuild the team. An engagement starts within days, so the roadmap keeps moving through the notice periods and counter-offers. We take a defined piece of work, ship it in your repository, and write the architecture notes and runbooks your next hire reads in their first week. The code belongs to you from the first commit, so picking it up later is a conversation, not a project.
Why not buy an off-the-shelf tool?+
Often you should, and we will tell you when. If a product already does most of what you need, configuring it is cheaper than building. Custom software earns its cost when the process is how you compete, when you pay for several tools to do one job badly, or when the workarounds cost more staff time than the software would.
Can you work with the systems we already have?+
That is usually the job. Most internal tools are valuable because of what they connect to: an ERP, a work-order system, a CRM, a finance package. If it has an API, we integrate with it. If all it offers is a nightly export, we can work with that too, and we will tell you how fresh the data can honestly be.
How do you find out what we actually need?+
By talking to the people who do the work, not only the people who asked for the tool. We watch the spreadsheet being used, collect the edge cases everyone handles from memory, and write the process down before we build anything. The first release covers the core of it; the exceptions follow once people are using it.
What happens to our old data?+
It comes with you. We migrate it, check the counts and totals against the source, and keep the old system or spreadsheet readable until your team is confident nothing was lost. Where the old data is inconsistent, we show you the records that do not fit rather than quietly guessing what they meant.
Who looks after it once it is live?+
You choose. We can stay on at our hourly rate for changes and fixes, or hand it to your own team with runbooks, architecture notes and a recorded walkthrough. Internal tools change as the business changes, so we build them to be changed by someone other than us.