AI-native software development from Croatia and the Balkan region
Customer-focused software development from Croatia and the Balkan region with a Nordic twist
Software Sauna specializes in building high-traffic web applications and scaling distributed infrastructures, often requiring additional resources to be outsourced.
Your project stays in senior hands, providing security that comes from experience in shipped products, not a certification. Product mindset, end-user perspective, and AI nativeness steer the ship. Autonomous productivity is built into our DNA, ready to be integrated to fully open, direct client communication.
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A proven, collaborative process
Proven solution – our guideline for establishing, scaling, and managing efficient remote engineering
1
Assess customer needs
We analyze the customer’s requirements
and current situation by evaluating their
resources, goals, challenges, and
existing processes.
2
Identify a developer
We provide a developer whose expertise
actually matches your specific situation,
not the next one free on the bench.
Whether this person is plugging into your
existing team or the start of a larger one,
onboarding and communication are
already worked out.
3
Outline suitable tasks
We will collaborate with the customer to
outline suitable outsourced tasks, refine
technical profiles, and ensure a good
cultural fit for the ideal remote team
candidates. We design processes and
structures together with the customer to
facilitate seamless scalability in the
future.
4
Reliable expertise
The expertise scales with the need, not
the other way around: a framework kept
running today, continuous development
tomorrow, or a rapid build-out down the
line, each met with what that moment
actually calls for, so the future stays
covered.
Outsourcing team options
These are the options for your winning team
Individual developers
You can lease talented Sauna individuals, even a single one!
Integrated team
A dedicated team of Sauna developers integrated into your own, existing team.
Sauna team
We provide architecture and an autonomous team for your project.
Hybrid team
If you need an on-site presence, we can co-op together with our local friends.
We build AI-native software,
from scratch or deep inside what
you already run
Frameworks and languages are easy to list. AI fluency runs
deeper: how an engineer actually works with it day to day,
beyond autocomplete. Software Sauna measures that
continuously, across the whole team.
Framework and language choice is matched to the challenge:
often the latest JavaScript frameworks, JVM, Python, or NET,
used holistically.
Open communication and direct connection with our clients and
their developer teams build world-class solutions together.
Frequent and direct interaction leads to a better understanding of
each other’s needs, which also allows more efficient cooperation.
Developer outsourcing feedback
Words by our awesome clients
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We always recommend an on-site kick-off at the beginning of the project.
This is how the teams get to know each other better. Time spent together makes remote cooperation and communication smoother. In long-term projects, on-site meetings should be arranged quarterly. We are happy to visit you, but we always welcome our clients warmly to Croatia.
We can not emphasize enough the importance of transparency and open communication.
It is essential for a successful remote software development project.
Therefore, our developers always communicate directly with your team, whether you have one Sauna developer or an entire team assigned to your project.
We work closely with our clients and challenge each other to improve daily.
We take pride in the quality of our work, and our top priority is a satisfied client.
To unleash our full potential for agile delivery and maximize added value, we are happy to consult you on things such as tech stack, architecture, and workflow.