Dedicated mobile development team.
iOS, Android and cross-platform developers work only on your app, as a dedicated mobile development team. Azendo employs, trains and manages them from its own offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand. You own the roadmap and the releases. A service delivery manager answers for every build that ships.
What you get and what you pay.
With offshore staffing or staff augmentation, the provider finds a mobile engineer and the managing is left to you. We do it as a full service. The mobile engineers are ours: we employ them, assign them to you full time, give them an office and equipment, train and coach them, and run delivery with you every week.
Price examples
Mid-level, full time, everything below included. Junior and senior levels are priced in your proposal. All 27 things included ››
- iOS developer From USD 3,900 per month
- Android developer From USD 3,900 per month
- React Native developer From USD 3,600 per month
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Service
We manage and develop the team
- A service delivery manager who runs the team and answers for delivery
- A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
- Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
- A Talent Success Manager for every specialist
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HR
We are the employer
- Recruitment and technical assessment
- Employment contracts
- Salary and payroll
- Tax and social security
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Facilitation
We provide the workplace
- A desk in our own office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
- A Workplace Experience Manager on site
- Team events through the year
- IT support
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Equipment
We supply the tools
- Laptop and hardware
- Software licences
- LinkedIn Learning access
- Device security and management
One monthly fee. Everything around the mobile engineer is in it.
You agree a monthly capacity in hours with us. The fee covers the mobile engineer's salary and every layer around it: the service delivery manager who runs the team, training and development, the workplace, the equipment and the HR behind the employment. It is the same amount every month.
- One agreement and one invoice, with no upfront fee or management surcharge
- Holidays are already priced in, so April and May cost the same
- Capacity moves up or down at the next monthly cycle
Your mobile development team, tailored down to every detail.
We select every person for your stack, your product and the way your team works. When the right mobile engineers are not already with us, we headhunt them and test them ourselves before you meet them.
- Roles and seniority
- Stack and domain
- Way of working
- Capacity and start date
- 25 Week 1 Sourcing Headhunted for your brief
- 12 Week 2 AI processing and screening Matched to your stack
- 5 Week 3 Technical testing Pass technical testing
- 1 Week 4 Mindset, culture and logic Proposed to you
Any role your roadmap needs.
These four are the mobile development roles with their own pages. Beyond them we assign specialists across ten disciplines, on the same agreement and with the same service delivery manager.
What a dedicated mobile development team works on.
Companies hire mobile developers this way when the app is central to the business and needs people who stay with it, release after release. A dedicated mobile development team owns your release cycle from start to finish: features, store submissions, device support and the crash reports that come back. The developers we assign work in your codebase under your product owner, and they read your reviews and crash data before they propose a change.
- Feature developmentNew screens and flows, built natively in Swift and Kotlin or in React Native and Flutter.
- Release managementBuilds, TestFlight and Play Console tracks, store submissions and responses to review feedback.
- Platform integrationsPayments, push notifications, maps, sign-in and the APIs your app relies on.
- Device and OS supportTesting across the devices and OS versions your users run, and updates when Apple or Google change the rules.
- Crash and performance workCrash reports and app vitals turned into fixes, sprint by sprint.
- Code review and quality gatesReviews and automated checks agreed with your team before the first sprint.
Stacks we work in
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- Xcode
- Objective-C
- TestFlight
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Android Studio
- Java
- Firebase
- React Native
- Flutter
- Fastlane
- Ionic
- App Store Connect
Matched to what you run today, agreed at scoping.
What a dedicated mobile development team is.
A dedicated mobile development team is a group of iOS, Android or cross-platform developers who build and ship one company's apps, full time. You own the roadmap, the store listings and the code. Azendo employs the developers, keeps their skills current and runs delivery, so every release goes out on the schedule you agreed.
Where it pays off most
It pays off when the app is the product, or a large part of it, and releases keep coming: new features, new OS versions, store reviews. The developers who know your app's architecture stay on it, release after release, and you direct the roadmap without running a mobile team yourself.
Who is on the team
- IOS developerSwift features and App Store releases
- Android developerKotlin features and Play releases
- React native developerOne codebase, both platforms
- Flutter developerCross-platform from one Dart codebase
- Service delivery managerRuns the team on our side and answers for delivery
- Talent Success managerFor every specialist: a development plan and coaching every month
- Your product ownerSets the priorities and accepts the work
Other ways to build a mobile development team, compared.
| Dedicated team, Azendo | Staff augmentation | Project outsourcing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Agreed monthly capacity from people who work only on your product | A person's hours, billed by the hour or the month | A defined scope, at a fixed price or on time and materials |
| Who manages the work | A service delivery manager, with you setting the priorities | You do, day to day: Azendo's estimate is four to eight hours a week per specialist | The vendor's project manager |
| Who answers for delivery | Azendo, every week | You do | The vendor, against the agreed scope |
| How long people stay | On your product, and with Azendo for 3.3 years on average | Until the contract ends | Until the project is handed over |
| Best fit | A product that keeps growing, with a roadmap that runs for years | A short gap in a team you already run | One project with a clear end |
"We don't hand you a mobile engineer and step back. We build the team around your product, and we stay in it every week."
Mikkel Schmidt, CEO and founder
Questions about a dedicated mobile development team.
What does a dedicated mobile development team do?
A dedicated mobile development team builds and maintains your iOS and Android apps full time: features, releases, store submissions and fixes. With Azendo the developers are ours, employed and managed from Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and they work only on your app, under your product owner's priorities.
Should we build native or cross-platform?
It depends on what the app has to do. Native Swift and Kotlin suit apps that lean on device features, heavy animation or platform-specific design. React Native and Flutter suit a product that needs one codebase across both stores. We assign developers who know the approach you run today.
How much does it cost to hire mobile developers this way?
iOS and Android developers start from USD 3,900 per month, and React Native and Flutter developers from USD 3,600, at mid-level and full time. The fee covers the developer and everything around them: delivery management, a Talent Success Manager and training, the office and equipment, HR and payroll. See how the monthly fee is built.
Can you take over an app that is already in the stores?
Yes. The developers start with your codebase, your release history and your crash data, agree the quality gates with you, and take over the release cycle once they know how the app behaves in production. Until then they ship fixes alongside whoever runs releases today, so nothing stalls during the handover.
Who controls the App Store and Play Console accounts?
You do. The developer accounts, certificates and signing keys stay in your name, and the developers work with the roles you grant in App Store Connect and Play Console. The apps, the reviews and the user data stay yours from the first release, and you can change access at any time.
How do the mobile developers work with our backend team?
They join the same stand-ups and the same board, agree API contracts with your backend engineers and test against your staging environment. If you need backend engineers as well, a dedicated software development team joins under the same agreement.
How fast can a mobile team start?
A team starts four to six weeks after signing. We agree a time to hire with you first, search for developers who know your platform and stack, and introduce them before anything is committed. You pay nothing until a developer has had their first day on your app.
Disciplines that join a mobile development team.
Each discipline joins under the same agreement, works in the same sprints and reports to the same service delivery manager. You add one at the next monthly cycle, when the roadmap calls for it.