For DACH SaaS, AI & healthtech · EU contract
European engineers on Central European hours and a Vietnam centre for lower-cost capacity — one EU contract, GDPR data processing agreement, IP from day one.
Berlin · Munich · Hamburg · Vienna · Zurich · invoices in EUR or USD
Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Engineering trusted by teams at
Germany, Austria & Switzerland · 2026
Senior hires take quarters, not weeks
And the best candidates leave after about 19 months.
GDPR is not optional
Healthtech and SaaS buyers ask for a data processing agreement before the first call.
Budgets are flat, roadmaps are not
AI features, data and platform work all compete for the same team.
The numbers
Hiring locally
€7,300–8,100
per month for a back-end developer hire in Germany, incl. ~20% employer costs
With Bonsay
€5,000–6,700
per month, European senior at €30–40/h
TalentUp 2026 · 168 h/month
What we put in
Typical clients: SaaS · AI · Healthtech · Fintech · Energytech.
Runway calculator
Where would you hire locally?
~A$220K a year loaded
Used to translate savings into months
With Bonsay
Pods come in threes: calculated for 6 engineers.
12 months of engineering
Hiring in Sydney / Melbourne$864,000
With Bonsay$264,000
Runway you keep
+2.4 months
$600,000 stays in the bank — or turns into more roadmap.
At these numbers local hiring is cheaper. We still help when speed is the bottleneck.
Indicative. Defaults from our 2026 market research — replace them with your numbers.
Proof
FAQ
Yes — our standard DPA, or yours.
Some can; most work in English. Tell us on the call if German is required for the role.
Next step
Book 30 minutes. Tell us the roles and the hours that matter; leave with a role map, a price and a start date.
You will talk to
Gleb Zamyslovsky
Executive Officer · Warsaw
One reply within a business day: questions, a fixed price, or an honest “not worth it”. No account managers in between.
