Dedicated Development Team for Your Product
A team that works only on your product, owns delivery of a product or module, and stays with it for years if the product needs it.
- Clutch 5.0, 53 verified reviews
- Longest team: 12 engineers, 7+ years
- EU company based in Malta
- Proof of concept in days, MVP in weeks
- Rates from $45 per hour
What is a dedicated development team?
A dedicated development team is a group of engineers who work only on your product and own delivery of a product or module. When you hire dedicated developers from Valletta, the team runs its own workflow, reports outcomes to you and can include QA and DevOps. Code and intellectual property stay yours.
The dedicated team model fits long-running products that need end-to-end ownership. If you only need extra hands inside a team you already manage, staff augmentation is the better fit.
Our engineers work across .NET and Azure, React and Node.js, React Native and Python, and they use AI coding agents with senior review before merge.
When does the dedicated team model fit?
The dedicated team model fits when one product or module needs a stable team for months or years, and you would rather manage outcomes than individual tickets. It works less well for a short skill gap inside your own team. For that, staff augmentation is cheaper and faster to set up.
A product that will run for years
The same people keep the context, so each release starts from what the team already knows.
A module you want owned end to end
The team plans, builds, tests and deploys a bounded part of the product and reports outcomes to you.
No engineering team of your own yet
Founders and product owners get a team that can take a product from documented requirements to production.
Dedicated team vs staff augmentation vs outsourcing
The three models differ in who manages the work. With staff augmentation, engineers join your team and you manage them. A dedicated team is self-managed and owns delivery of a product or module. Outsourcing delivers a project with a fixed scope. Choose by how much control you want to keep.
| Dedicated team | Staff augmentation | Outsourcing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who manages day-to-day work | The team, reporting outcomes to you | You, inside your process | The vendor, against an agreed scope |
| What you buy | Ongoing ownership of a product or module | Engineering capacity for your backlog | A defined project result |
| Best for | Long-running products | Skill gaps and short-term scaling | A project with a fixed scope |
| How it is priced | Monthly rate per engineer | Monthly rate per engineer | Fixed price after an evaluation sprint |
| Scope changes | Reprioritised every sprint | You reprioritise your backlog | Agreed as a change to the contract |
How long do Valletta dedicated teams stay with a client?
As long as the product needs them. Our longest-running dedicated team has stayed with one HealthTech client for 7+ years: 12 engineers embedded in a remote patient monitoring and virtual care platform, with 200,000+ engineering hours. It is a long-term product build, delivered inside ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 13485.
12 engineers, 7+ years, 200,000+ engineering hours
Remote patient monitoring platform, HealthTech
An embedded team on a platform that uses HL7 FHIR R4 as its clinical data model, with 10 device connectivity models and continuous delivery to Kubernetes across 6 environments. For confidentiality we describe the engagement without naming the company or the people involved.
Read the caseA two-year-old product rebuilt while it stayed live
Time tracking for EU field workforces
The team extended the product with geofenced check-in and automatic filing of worked time into national social security systems.
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How do you hire a dedicated development team?
Hiring a dedicated development team starts with a call about the product and the roles. We shortlist vetted engineers for each seat, you interview them and make the final call, and the team begins with an evaluation sprint of 40 to 80 hours. Most engagements are running inside two weeks.
Call
We agree the product, the roles and the stack, and say what team composition we would propose.
Shortlist and interviews
We interview and test 15 to 18 engineers per placement. You meet the shortlist and decide.
Evaluation sprint
The team audits the codebase and architecture, sets up CI/CD and the development environment, and agrees the communication cadence with you.
Delivery
Sprint planning, daily stand-ups and sprint reviews. The team scales up or down as the roadmap moves.
Frequently asked questions
A dedicated team is an ongoing group of engineers who work only on your product, take new priorities every sprint and are billed per engineer per month. Outsourcing delivers a defined project for a fixed price, and scope changes go through the contract. Pick a dedicated team when the roadmap keeps moving.
A proof of concept in days and an MVP in weeks. A dedicated team works only on your product, so nothing competes for its attention. It proves the riskiest assumption first, then builds the MVP in short sprints, with QA and DevOps included when you need them, and stays on to grow the product after launch.
A dedicated development team costs from $45 per hour per engineer, billed monthly. The team total depends on its size and on the seniority and stack of each role. You get an exact quote after the first call, once we know what the team will own. There is no recruiter fee, no bench cost and no notice period.
Yes. A dedicated team can combine AI engineers with DevOps and platform engineers who own deployment, monitoring and model versioning. Our engineers have shipped RAG systems and self-hosted LLMs to production. We do not train foundation models or run ML research, and we say so on the first call.
We replace them from the same bench at no cost to you, and you interview the replacement before they join. Code, documentation and decisions live in your repository, so the new engineer starts from the written record. The rest of the team keeps the product context during the handover.
Describe the product you need a team for
Tell us what the team will own, the stack and when you want to start. We reply with a proposed team composition and set up the first call.
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