Dedicated Development Teams.
Engineers who work like your team, because they do.
Drema provides dedicated engineering teams that work inside your process: your repository, your standards, your rituals and your definition of done. This is a capacity model rather than an outsourcing one — the engineers are accountable to your goals, and the same people stay on your product rather than rotating between accounts.
Engineers who work like your team, because they do.
What usually
goes wrong.
Hiring senior engineers takes months you do not have. The last agency assigned whoever was free, the people changed every quarter, and every rotation cost weeks of re-explaining the domain. Nobody ever built enough context to make good architectural decisions.
Everything that ships
with this work.
Not a menu to choose from. Each piece is here because leaving it out is what makes this kind of project fail six months later.
Matched engineers
People selected for your stack and domain, whose profiles you interview and approve.
Embedded working
In your standups, your board, your code review process — not a separate team lobbing work over a wall.
Continuity commitment
The same engineers stay on your product; replacements come with a handover period, not a surprise.
Overlapping hours
A guaranteed daily overlap with your working day for real-time collaboration.
Technical leadership
Optional senior oversight on architecture and code quality across the team.
Transparent reporting
Visible progress in your own tools, not a monthly summary you cannot verify.
The order matters more
than the tools.
Most of what separates a project that lands from one that stalls is sequence. This is the order we work in, and why each step comes where it does.
- 01
Define the gap
Which skills, which seniority, and what the team should own end to end.
- 02
Match and interview
You interview candidates and approve them. We do not assign people you have not met.
- 03
Onboard properly
Domain context, codebase walkthrough and a first meaningful contribution in week one.
- 04
Integrate
The team works in your process, with your review standards applying equally to their code.
- 05
Scale or wind down
Adjust size as the roadmap changes, with notice periods agreed at the start.
Where this gets
put to work.
The situations this service is built for. If one of these sounds like your problem it is worth a conversation — and if none of them do, say so on the call and we will point you at what would actually fit.
Scaling a product team
Adding capacity quickly without a six-month recruitment cycle.
Specialist skills
AI, data or DevOps expertise you need now but not permanently.
Parallel workstreams
A second team on a new initiative while your core team protects the roadmap.
Covering a gap
Continuity through parental leave, notice periods or a hiring freeze.
Have a use case that is not on this list? That is usually the interesting one.
Chosen to fit,
not to impress.
We pick tools that suit the problem and that your team can maintain after we hand over — never to pad a capability list.
Questions we
get asked.
Straight answers, including the ones that talk you out of work we would otherwise be paid for.
How is this different from hiring a freelancer?
Continuity, backup and accountability. You get engineers backed by a team, with cover during illness or leave, technical oversight, and a company answerable for delivery rather than an individual who may take another contract.
How quickly can a team start?
Typically two to four weeks from agreeing the profile, depending on how specialised the skills are. That is against a market where hiring a senior engineer directly commonly takes three to six months.
Can we interview the engineers?
Yes, and we insist on it. You interview and approve everyone who joins your team. Assigning engineers you have not met is exactly the pattern that makes people distrust this model.
What if an engineer is not working out?
Tell us early and we replace them, with a handover period so context is not lost. We would rather make that change quickly than have you tolerate a poor fit out of politeness.
Who owns the code they write?
You do, entirely. Work happens in your repositories under your licence and IP terms, agreed in the contract before anyone starts.
How do you handle time zone differences?
We commit to a guaranteed daily overlap with your working hours for standups, reviews and pairing. Fully asynchronous working across a large gap is possible but slower, and we are direct about that tradeoff.
Talk it through with a founder.
Bring the actual problem. You will get a straight answer on whether dedicated development teams is the right approach
— including when it is not.
