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The roadmap is agreed. The team is two engineers short.

We put our own salaried engineers onto your team, into your tracker and your standup, for as long as the work lasts.

You keep the backlog. We supply the hands.

No recruitment fee, no percentage of salary, and no charge for the time we spend finding the person. You interview, you decide, and you can stop on thirty days notice.

The EmporionSoft engineering team in Lahore
  • M Abdullah Jalal
  • Kaleem Ullah
  • Muhammad Yaseen
  • Ahsan Baidar
  • Sana Arshad

50+ in-house engineers in Lahore, across engineering, design and QA. 17 of them are named and pictured further down this page.

50+
In-house engineers, no subcontractors
3 days
To a shortlist with rates attached
2 weeks
Typical time to the first commit
30 days
Notice period, in either direction

Registered, accredited and reviewed

  • Registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
  • Registered with the Pakistan Software Export Board
  • Member of P@SHA, the Pakistan IT Industry Association
  • Registered with the Federal Board of Revenue, Pakistan
  • Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S registered
  • Reviewed on Clutch

When this is the right call, and when it is not

Extending a team solves one problem well and several others badly. It is worth knowing which one you have before you start paying for people.

We will tell you on the first call if the answer is one of the four on the right. It costs us a sale and saves you a quarter.

Worth a conversation

  • A roadmap that is agreed and a team that cannot get through it.
  • One skill missing, whether mobile, AI or DevOps, that does not justify a permanent hire.
  • A permanent search that has run for months while the work waits.
  • A delivery date that is fixed, where the only variable left is capacity.
  • A codebase you have inherited and nobody left who knows it.

Ask us for something else

Nobody is free to give direction.
An engineer with no product owner writes the wrong thing quickly. Ask us about a dedicated team, where a lead does that part.
The requirement is still an idea.
Start with a short discovery and a fixed-scope build. Adding people to an undecided problem makes it slower, not faster.
The job is under three weeks.
Onboarding would eat most of it. A fixed-scope piece of work is cheaper for you and more useful to us.
You need someone physically in your office.
Our engineers work from Lahore. If the role has to be on site with you, we are the wrong firm and will say so on the call.

Roles we staff

Every one of these is filled by a full-time EmporionSoft employee. If the skill you need is not on this list we will say so, rather than put forward someone approximate.

Senior software engineers

Full-stack web work: a feature nobody has had time to start, a service that needs rewriting, a codebase whose original author has left. Comfortable being handed a repository and a ticket rather than a specification.

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Node.js · Laravel · PostgreSQL

Frontend engineers

The half of the product a user actually touches. Component libraries that stay consistent past the third contributor, state that survives a back button, and the accessibility and performance work that never makes it onto a roadmap on its own.

React · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Vue.js

Backend engineers

APIs, jobs, schemas and the integrations that hold a business together. Brought in when a query has started timing out, a third-party webhook cannot be trusted, or a schema that fitted the first thousand rows no longer fits.

Node.js · Laravel · Python · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis

Mobile engineers

iOS and Android from one codebase, plus the parts teams usually discover late: offline behaviour, push delivery, store review, and the build pipeline that gets a release out without a manual step.

React Native · Flutter · TypeScript · Firebase

AI engineers

Retrieval over your own documents, model evaluation that produces a number rather than an impression, and the unglamorous work of getting a prototype to behave on real inputs.

Python · PyTorch · TensorFlow · Hugging Face · Claude API

Data engineers

Getting data out of somewhere awkward and into somewhere useful: collection at scale, the pipeline that cleans and reconciles it, and reporting a finance team will trust enough to act on.

Python · Apache Spark · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Google Analytics

DevOps engineers

Containers, pipelines and environments. Usually brought in when deploying is a person following a checklist, and needs to be a command instead.

Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Nginx

SQA engineers

Automated coverage for the paths that actually break, a suite that runs in CI, and regression testing before a release rather than a bug report after one. Load and stress work where the question is what happens at ten times the traffic.

Cypress · Selenium · Jest · Apache JMeter · GitHub Actions

UI/UX designers

Interface and flow for teams with engineers but no designer. Research and wireframes where the problem is still open, a design system where it is not, and a handover in your file and your components rather than a picture of them.

Figma · Framer · Miro · Tailwind CSS

E-commerce engineers

Storefronts, themes and checkout. Payment and delivery methods that match how your customers actually pay, and the merchandising and speed work that decides whether a catalogue converts.

Shopify · WooCommerce · Next.js · Google Analytics

Business analysts and delivery managers

The person who turns a stakeholder conversation into tickets an engineer can start on. Requirements, acceptance criteria and a release plan, for teams whose engineering capacity is not the thing that is short.

JIRA · Miro · Figma

The people, by name

Most firms in this market quote a talent-pool figure and show you nobody. These are 17 of our 50+ full-time employees in Lahore, named and pictured: engineering, mobile, AI, design and SQA. The roles above are what you can hire; these are the people who would be doing it.

The whole team
  • M Abdullah Jalal

    M Abdullah Jalal

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Kaleem Ullah

    Kaleem Ullah

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Muhammad Yaseen

    Muhammad Yaseen

    Senior AI Engineer

  • Ahsan Baidar

    Ahsan Baidar

    Senior AI/ML Engineer

  • Sana Arshad

    Sana Arshad

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Shahzeb Khan

    Shahzeb Khan

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Ihsan Khan

    Ihsan Khan

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Arwa Ayub

    Arwa Ayub

    Student Intern Lead

  • Saad Ullah

    Saad Ullah

    Senior Mobile App Developer

  • Muhammad Iqbal

    Muhammad Iqbal

    Product Engineer

  • Shahzaib Ali

    Shahzaib Ali

    Software Engineer

  • Altaf Hussain

    Altaf Hussain

    Software Engineer

  • Osama Fateh Ali

    Osama Fateh Ali

    SQA Engineer

  • Ali Hassan

    Ali Hassan

    UI/UX Designer

  • M Umer Khan

    M Umer Khan

    HR Manager

  • Muhammad Bilal

    Muhammad Bilal

    Web Developer

  • Abdul Hadi

    Abdul Hadi

    Web Developer

Search people by name

Had a name mentioned on a call, or need to know whether we have a React Native developer before you ask? Look them up.

17 people

  • M Abdullah JalalSenior Software Engineer
  • Kaleem UllahSenior Software Engineer
  • Muhammad YaseenSenior AI Engineer
  • Ahsan BaidarSenior AI/ML Engineer
  • Sana ArshadSenior Software Engineer
  • Shahzeb KhanSenior Software Engineer
  • Ihsan KhanSenior Software Engineer
  • Arwa AyubStudent Intern Lead
  • Saad UllahSenior Mobile App Developer
  • Muhammad IqbalProduct Engineer
  • Shahzaib AliSoftware Engineer
  • Altaf HussainSoftware Engineer
  • Osama Fateh AliSQA Engineer
  • Ali HassanUI/UX Designer
  • M Umer KhanHR Manager
  • Muhammad BilalWeb Developer
  • Abdul HadiWeb Developer

From first call to first commit

Five steps, with the time each one takes. Most engagements start inside two weeks. The part we cannot schedule is how quickly you can run interviews.

Lahore, UTC+5. A normal working day here covers the Gulf and East Africa end to end, and runs alongside the UK and Western Europe from their morning into the early afternoon. Where a team needs more overlap than that, engineers move their hours to get it.

  1. 01

    A call

    45 minutes

    What you are building, what the codebase looks like, which seniority you actually need. An engineer is on this call, because the questions worth asking are technical ones.

  2. 02

    Profiles

    3 working days

    CVs of people who are genuinely free, with their rate on them. If nobody on the bench fits, we say so on the call instead of sending three near-misses.

  3. 03

    You interview

    Your schedule

    Your team, your technical interview, your decision. We do not present a single candidate and call it a shortlist.

  4. 04

    Paperwork

    2 to 3 days

    Contract, NDA and IP assignment. Standard documents, and we will work from yours if your legal team would rather.

  5. 05

    First sprint

    Week one

    Access, environment, and a ticket closed in the first week. Small and real, so both sides find out early how the working relationship runs.

What stays yours

The questions your legal team will ask first, answered before they have to ask them.

The code is yours
Intellectual property is assigned to you in the contract, not on completion of a milestone. Work in your repository stays in your repository.
You set the work
Your backlog, your priorities, your definition of done. We do not run a parallel plan or ask you to route requests through an account manager.
We are the employer of record
Salary, tax, equipment, leave and the employment relationship stay with us. You are contracting for capacity, not taking on a headcount liability in Pakistan.
Nobody is shared
An engineer on your team is on your team. They are not split across three clients and billed to each as full time.

The terms

Billing
A monthly invoice per engineer, at an agreed rate. No recruitment fee, no percentage of salary, no charge for the time we spend finding the person.
Minimum engagement
One month. Long enough for someone to be useful, short enough that you are not betting a quarter on a first impression.
Notice
Thirty days, either direction. If the work stops or the funding moves, you are not carrying a team you no longer need.
If it is not working
Tell us in the first two weeks and we replace the engineer and credit the time. A bad match is a mistake we made reading your brief, and you should not be paying for it.

Three ways to work with us

Extending your team is one of them. It is not always the right one, and the difference is mostly about who is deciding what gets built.

Engagement models compared by who leads, commitment and best fit
ModelWho decidesCommitmentBest when
Extending your teamThis pageOur engineers join yours and work to your plan.You leadMonthly, 30 days noticeYou know what to build and need more hands to build it.
Dedicated teamA self-contained group with a lead, delivering against a roadmap.We lead, you set directionQuarterlyThe work runs for months and you would rather not manage it day to day.
Fixed scopeAn agreed deliverable, a milestone schedule and a price.We leadPer projectThe requirement is settled and you want the delivery risk on our side.

The stack they work in

The stack our bench works in daily. An engineer joining you will be picking up your conventions either way, but starting from familiar ground is the difference between a first week and a first month.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Laravel
  • Flutter
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions
  • PyTorch
  • Cypress
  • Tailwind CSS

Questions we get asked

Something not covered here? Ask us directly and an engineer will answer, not a sales form.

Ask a question

You do. They work in your tracker, attend your standup and take priorities from whoever sets them for the rest of your team. We handle the employment side, meaning pay, equipment, leave and appraisals, and step in only if something is going wrong that you should not have to manage.

Tell us which seat is empty.

Send the role, the stack and the date you need someone by. If we have the right person free we will send their CV and rate within three working days. If we do not, we will tell you that instead of sending you a near miss.