Nearshore Software Development Company
Softjourn builds and maintains custom software for companies in North America and the UK with nearshore teams in Brazil, Poland, and Ukraine. Your engineers and ours share most of the working day, so questions get answered the same afternoon and releases move on your schedule. 25+ years of delivery and deep expertise stand behind every engagement.
Trusted by product teams across North America and Europe:
Nearshore Software Development With Shared Working Hours
Nearshore software development means your delivery team works one or two time zones away, close enough to join your standups, reviews, and release calls live. Softjourn runs two nearshore setups: engineers in São Paulo for clients in the Americas, and engineers in Poland and Ukraine for clients in the UK and Europe. Both follow the same delivery practice we have refined over 25+ years of long-term partnerships: you get a team that plans the sprint with you in the morning, ships during the day, and hands over working code before your evening.
Where Are Softjourn's Nearshore Teams Based?
Americas: São Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo is one to two hours ahead of New York, depending on the season.
Your team there will share the full US East Coast workday and can cover the majority of hours needed for clients on the West Coast.
Daily standups, sprint reviews, and incident calls happen during your business hours.
UK and Europe: Poland and Ukraine
Our team in Wrocław is one hour ahead of London, and our teams in Ukraine are two hours ahead.
That leaves nearly the whole UK working day shared, and the same hours as clients in central Europe.
UK companies such as Spektrix and Ticketmaster have built software with Softjourn on this convenient schedule.
How Do Nearshore Teams Work Across Time Zones?
Same Day Answers
A question raised at 10 a.m. gets a reply before lunch. Product owners and engineers talk while the context is still fresh, which keeps small uncertainties from turning into a day of rework.
Live Standups and Reviews
Our engineers join your standups, sprint planning, and demos in real time. You see progress as it happens and can change direction before the next sprint starts.
Short Feedback Loops
Feedback on a pull request or a staging build comes back within hours. Shorter loops mean fewer surprises at the end of a sprint and a steadier release rhythm.
Releases in Your Hours
Deployments and hotfixes happen while your own team is online to verify them. Nobody has to stay up late to watch a release roll out.
Faster Incident Response
When something breaks in production, the engineers who built the feature are awake and reachable during your working day, which shortens the time to a fix.
Longer Days Across Two Hubs
Combine our international teams to get work done around the clock. Engineers in Poland and Ukraine start hours before US offices open, then hand work over to our team in Brazil, which continues until the end of the US day.
Nearshore Software Development Services
Softjourn's nearshore teams cover the full delivery cycle, from a first architecture review to long-term support. You can bring us one piece of work or the whole product. We offer the following nearshore services:
CUSTOM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
New products and platforms built to your requirements. We handle architecture, development, and release, and keep the code maintainable for the teams who inherit it.
WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Nearshore application development for web platforms, customer portals and internal tools, built with the frameworks your team already knows.
APPLICATION MODERNIZATION
Legacy systems moved to current frameworks and cloud infrastructure in planned stages, so your business keeps running while the platform changes underneath it.
QA AND SOFTWARE TESTING
Manual and automated testing that runs alongside development. Testers work in the same hours as your developers, so defects are reported and fixed within the same sprint.
DEVOPS AND CLOUD
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and cloud operations on AWS and Azure. Our engineers keep environments stable and costs visible as your product grows.
CODE AUDIT
An independent review of your codebase covering architecture, code quality and dependency risks. A clear place to start before you hand a system to a new team.
ARCHITECTURE ASSESSMENT
A review of how your system is built, with a focus on scalability, security, and performance. We show where the architecture limits growth and what to change first.
STARTUP AUDIT
A check of code quality, architecture, and team readiness for startups preparing to scale or raise funding. We point out the risks that investors and new engineers will notice first.
Stop waiting overnight for answers from your dev team.
Meet Your Nearshore TeamHow Does a Nearshore Engagement With Softjourn Start?
A nearshore development team assigned to your product full-time, with its own delivery lead and a stable roster that stays with the product as it grows. We shape the team around your roadmap, combining the roles it needs, such as developers, QA engineers, and DevOps, and adjust the mix as priorities change. The team works in your time zone, joins your planning and reviews, and owns delivery against the goals you set together. Best for long-running products and roadmaps planned quarters ahead. Details on our dedicated software development team page.
The First Weeks of a Nearshore Engagement
1. Discovery Call
We learn what you are building, where your team is today and which working hours need to overlap.
2. Team Proposal
We propose a team, the hub it works from and an engagement model, with the roles and skills matched to your roadmap.
3. Onboarding
The team gets access to your code, tools and rituals, and joins your standups from the first week.
4. Regular Delivery
Sprints run on your calendar, with reviews in your working hours and a delivery lead you can reach directly.
Long-Distance Partnerships That Work Day to Day
Event Ticketing
Spektrix: Serverless Booking Portal Built With a London Team
Spektrix, a ticketing platform based in London, worked with Softjourn on a serverless Azure booking portal. Planning and reviews happened within the UK business day, and Spektrix credited our pragmatic approach with spotting blockers early. The architecture positioned them to onboard 200+ new clients over two years.
Event Ticketing
Ticketmaster: A Ticket Scanning App Built Across UK Hours
Ticketmaster's UK team worked with Softjourn on a cross-platform ticket scanning app, from a Xamarin prototype to a full app with offline mode. The app went through beta with the UK team and scanned 200,000+ tickets in its first months.
Expense Management
PEX: A Decade of Partnership With a New York Fintech
PEX, a New York spend management company, has worked with Softjourn for more than ten years on mobile, cloud, and DevOps. Our engineers in Ukraine and Brazil hand work over to each other, so development on the platform keeps moving around the clock, and regular calls with the PEX team keep the shared roadmap on track.
Media & Entertainment
Myers-Briggs: Nine Years Building a US Career Platform
Myers-Briggs had no internal development team for VitaNavis, their career exploration platform. Softjourn worked as their product team for nine years, scaling alongside the platform and delivering the Angular upgrade, MBTI assessment integration and new career tools.
Event Ticketing
TicketPrinting.com: One Codebase for the US, UK and Australia
TicketPrinting.com, based in Montana, asked Softjourn to move their ticket design platform to a single codebase for several countries. We rebuilt the graphics editor in HTML5 and internationalized the platform for the US, UK, and Australia, in a partnership running since 2016.
Ready to see which nearshore hub fits your team? Book a no-pressure call with us.
Book a CallNearshore Software Development: Common Questions
Both are ways of outsourcing software development, and the difference is distance. Nearshore teams work one or two time zones from you, while offshore teams are usually five or more hours away. The practical difference is how much of the working day you share, which affects how fast questions get answered and how often you can meet live. Our onshore vs nearshore vs offshore comparison goes through costs and trade-offs in detail, and our offshore development services page covers the offshore option.
Teams in São Paulo are one to two hours ahead of New York, and teams in Poland and Ukraine are one to two hours ahead of London. For US East Coast and UK clients that means almost the entire working day is shared. For US West Coast clients, the São Paulo team covers the morning and early afternoon.
Yes. English is the working language on every Softjourn project, from standups to documentation. Our engineers have worked with clients in the US and UK for years, including partnerships like PEX that have run for more than a decade.
Every engagement starts with an NDA, and access to your code and systems is set up the way your security team requires. Our engineers follow your security policies and our code review includes dependency scanning. For fintech clients we have supported PCI DSS compliance work.
It depends on the roles you need. Once we agree on scope, we propose a team and start onboarding as soon as you approve it, and engineers join your standups from their first week. A discovery call is the fastest way to get a realistic start date.
We work as a dedicated team, through staff augmentation or on a time and materials basis. The right model depends on how long the work runs and how settled the scope is. After a discovery call we recommend one and agree on the numbers before anything starts.
Start Working With a Nearshore Team in Your Time Zone
Tell us what you are building and where your team is based. We will suggest the hub, the team, and the engagement model that best fits your working day.