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Hire Developers in India as Full-Time Employees, via EOR

Whatever the stack, the employment problem underneath is identical: someone has to hold a compliant Indian contract, run payroll, and file PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS every month. That someone is us. Pick the role below, or brief us directly, and your developer is a legal full-time employee on our Bengaluru entity within five business days.

Every stack, one employment engine underneath. Choose a role from the index below and your developer becomes a full-time employee on our Bengaluru entity in five business days.

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G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

Teams building in India. First hire to full team.

Every developer role we hire for in India.

Each role has its own page with pay bands, vetting notes and hiring specifics for that stack. All of them run on the same $149 EOR engine.

Two ways to employ Indian developers. Only one starts this week.

Incorporating versus hiring on our entity comes down to six practical differences.

Employ via your own subsidiary

Employ via our entity

Week one outcome
A lawyer engaged and a name application pending at the MCA.
A developer writing code on a compliant contract.
Who signs the contract
Your future subsidiary, once it exists in about six months.
Our Bengaluru entity, on paper within days.
Who chases the filings
Your team learns PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS calendars from scratch.
Ours already runs them for every client, receipts attached.
Who eats a penalty
Interest at 12% a year plus damages up to 25% land on your books.
Demands go to our registration, and we answer them.
What a seat costs monthly
Entity overhead spread across however few people you have.
$149 each, sliding to $129 across the board past twenty.
How it ends
A dissolution process measured in months.
A notice letter and one final invoice.

Employ via your own subsidiary
Week one outcome A lawyer engaged and a name application pending at the MCA.
Who signs the contract Your future subsidiary, once it exists in about six months.
Who chases the filings Your team learns PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS calendars from scratch.
Who eats a penalty Interest at 12% a year plus damages up to 25% land on your books.
What a seat costs monthly Entity overhead spread across however few people you have.
How it ends A dissolution process measured in months.

Employ via our entity
Week one outcome A developer writing code on a compliant contract.
Who signs the contract Our Bengaluru entity, on paper within days.
Who chases the filings Ours already runs them for every client, receipts attached.
Who eats a penalty Demands go to our registration, and we answer them.
What a seat costs monthly $149 each, sliding to $129 across the board past twenty.
How it ends A notice letter and one final invoice.
Month 1
DIN, DSC and name reservation underway
Month 2
MCA grants the incorporation
Month 3
PAN, TAN and GSTIN in hand
Month 4
PF and ESI codes registered
Month 5
Account opened, payroll tooling ready
Month 6
Developer hiring can begin

One challan, forgotten, becomes a line item you cannot ignore.

Miss a PF date and the amount owed starts compounding at 12% annual interest, with damages of up to 25% layered on while it stays open.

With your developers employed on our registration, that clock ticks against us, and the recovery notice carries our name.

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How an unpaid challan snowballs Statutory interest and damages, compounding
₹6,200 Day 1
₹41,500 Day 30
₹1,84,000 Day 90
₹3,12,000 Day 180
Illustrative for a compact payroll and one lapse. The curve steepens with bigger wage bills or longer delays.
Which door the recovery notice knocks on
Developers on your entity You
Developers on Versatile's entity Versatile

Owning the entity wins eventually at scale. The last FAQ item gives the honest crossover point. Test your own headcount plan in the EOR versus entity calculator before picking a route.

You direct the engineering. The employment plumbing is ours.

Roadmaps, reviews and raises stay in your hands across every role on this page. The contract, the payroll run and the statutory calendar all live on our Bengaluru registration, evidenced monthly.

You run

  • Architecture, tickets and releases
  • Reviews, mentoring and standups
  • Raises, promotions and exits

We handle

  • Contracts issued by our registration
  • The monthly payroll run, any stack
  • PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS calendar
  • Benefits, records and settlements

You run
  • Assign the work and review it
  • Grow each developer's career
  • Decide pay and promotion
  • Ship product, not paperwork

We handle
  • Contract each developer on our entity
  • Pay them on schedule monthly
  • Clear every statutory deadline
  • Prove it with monthly receipts
  • Keep the India-side records
  • Take their payroll questions

When something happens in India, it is ours.
A labour authority makes contact We take the call
Payroll needs a correction We make it
A statute gets amended We explain the impact

A named compliance manager owns your account. Not a queue, not a chatbot, one person who already knows your headcount and your last filing.

Account managerMedian first reply 4 to 6 hours
Recruitment coordinatorBrief to shortlist 9 days
Finance associateFilings on time 8 / 8

One engine behind twenty-seven role pages.

Whether the brief says Python, Salesforce or vibe coding, vetting, contracts and compliance run through the same process, so quality does not vary by stack.

Nine days to a stack-specific shortlist.

Sourcing is tuned per role: the screens for a DevOps engineer differ from a WordPress developer's, but the deadline and the communication bar do not.

Developers bring us their admin, not you.

Across every role, questions about payslips, PF balances, leave and Form 16 route to our support desk by default.

Any role graduates to your entity later.

Incorporate down the road and each developer transfers over with UAN, tenure and gratuity accrual carried across, whatever their stack.

One engine behind twenty-seven role pages.

Whether the brief says Python, Salesforce or vibe coding, vetting, contracts and compliance run through the same process, so quality does not vary by stack.

Specialised sourcing, standardised employment.

Nine days to a stack-specific shortlist.

Sourcing is tuned per role: the screens for a DevOps engineer differ from a WordPress developer's, but the deadline and the communication bar do not.

The role page tells you what we screen for.

Developers bring us their admin, not you.

Across every role, questions about payslips, PF balances, leave and Form 16 route to our support desk by default.

Your standup stays about the sprint.

Moving someone across

Consolidate scattered India developers onto one employer.

Developers spread across contractor invoices, freelance platforms or another provider can all land on our registration in a single payroll cycle with their service history untouched.

Tenure Kept
Gratuity clock Kept
PF and UAN Continuous
Payroll gap 0 days

The biggest such consolidation moved 200 people in one cycle.

Supporting evidence

Due diligence takes one email.

Every developer on this page would be employed by Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, registered 2022.

  • Incorporation
  • GST
  • EPFO code
  • ESIC
  • Shops and Establishments
  • PAN and TAN
  • Udyam MSME
What we verify
  • Incorporation Ministry of Corporate Affairs
  • GST Goods and Services Tax
  • EPFO code Employees Provident Fund Organisation
  • ESIC Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • Shops and Establishments Government of Karnataka
  • PAN and TAN Income Tax Department
  • Udyam MSME Government of India

Request the certificate and the PDF arrives without a pitch attached.

200

developers consolidated onto our registration in a single payroll cycle

33

monthly invoices in an unbroken run for one client across 26 months

5 days

from a signed developer offer to their first day on payroll

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing through us.

Engineering leaders on hiring Indian developers through us.

Teams that filled roles across this index describe how the employment side held up.

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Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi
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Open Theatre Anand Raj Founder, Open Theatre
Abid Hassan Verified client
Sensibull
“They moved fast and took the whole compliance side off my plate. For a founder making an early India hire, that is exactly what you want.”
Abid Hassan Founder and CEO, Sensibull
Via G2
Moonshot
“Every option was either 'set up your own entity' or a platform that quotes a great price then hits you with add-ons. Versatile was the one that actually made it simple. First payroll ran on time. No scramble.”
Angad S. Co-Founder, Moonshot
Via G2
Digital Marketing Agency
“Contracts, PF, ESI, TDS and payroll all in one place. Invoicing in USD meant zero exchange rate surprises. The compliance rigour is genuinely reassuring.”
Vedant T. Founder, Digital Marketing Agency
Via G2
Design Studio
“Setting up in a new country can get messy fast, but their India EOR made onboarding feel easy. The team is responsive, clear, and great to work with.”
Setu C. Studio Owner, Design Studio
Via G2
US Startup
“We used Versatile to hire our first employee in India after months of putting it off because the compliance side seemed like a mess. They walked us through it and now we don't think about it.”
Verified US Founder First-time Founder, US Startup
Via G2
Mid-Market Tech Co.
“Versatile consistently delivered work that was both strategically sharp and execution-ready. Their turnaround times are impressive, and they think about problems the way an in-house team would.”
Shivani K. Senior Manager, Tech TA
Via G2
Growth-stage Startup
“Their team was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. They made a complex process feel simple.”
Mukul S. Core Team, Growth-stage Startup

Case studies.

Largest food delivery app in India, decacorn View case study The world's largest professional network, part of Microsoft View case study Legacy US software company, publishing platforms View case study

One price across every role on this page.

$149 per developer monthly regardless of stack, $129 across the team past twenty. Recruitment is optional at 12% of CTC. Salaries pass through at actual cost.

Employer of Record

Same fee for every stack
$149 /developer/mo

A Python hire and a Salesforce hire cost the same to employ. Past twenty developers the fee is $129 each, applied automatically.

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  • Compliant contract from our Bengaluru entity
  • PF, ESIC, professional tax, TDS filed for you
  • One consolidated USD invoice monthly
  • First payroll inside five business days
  • A compliance contact who knows your account
  • A payroll associate across all your roles
  • Payslips and a portal for each developer
  • Transfer path to your own entity
  • Compliant contract from our Bengaluru entity
  • PF, ESIC, professional tax, TDS filed for you
  • One consolidated USD invoice monthly
  • First payroll inside five business days
Four further inclusions
  • A compliance contact who knows your account
  • A payroll associate across all your roles
  • Payslips and a portal for each developer
  • Transfer path to your own entity

Hiring across several roles at once? Sales can sequence the plan with you.

Recruitment

Role-tuned sourcing
12% of annual CTC

Junior and mid-level searches across any stack on this page. Senior searches run 15%; leadership is scoped per mandate. Your referrals are free.

Send us a role
  • Stack-specific shortlist inside nine days
  • Pay benchmarks per role and level
  • Interview logistics run by our team
  • Fee raised only on day ninety
  • Senior searches at 15% of CTC
  • Leadership mandates scoped per role
  • No charge for candidates you bring
  • Placement onto our entity or your own
  • Stack-specific shortlist inside nine days
  • Pay benchmarks per role and level
  • Interview logistics run by our team
  • Fee raised only on day ninety
Four further terms
  • Senior searches at 15% of CTC
  • Leadership mandates scoped per role
  • No charge for candidates you bring
  • Placement onto our entity or your own

Several open roles? Sales will scope them as one mandate.

Across all roles combined

$149 $129 /developer/mo

Headcount counts across every stack: developer twenty-one reprices the lot to $129.

Bundled into every developer's fee

  • Contract drafted and signed by our entity
  • Monthly payroll with itemised payslips
  • PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS cleared
  • Gratuity accrual live from day one
  • Partner-provided group health cover
  • RBI-rate conversion onto one USD bill
  • Background checks, onboarding, Form 16
  • Exit handling and final settlement

Roles pool toward the volume rate

$149 $129 /developer/mo

Ten backend plus eleven Android still equals twenty-one, and everyone drops to $129 that cycle.

Bundled into the fee

  • Contract drafted and signed by our entity
  • Monthly payroll with itemised payslips
  • PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS cleared
  • Gratuity accrual live from day one
  • Partner-provided group health cover
  • RBI-rate conversion onto one USD bill
  • Background checks, onboarding, Form 16
  • Exit handling and final settlement

Recruitment, where used, bills at 12% of annual CTC on day ninety for junior and mid-senior roles. Salaries and employer statutory contributions are invoiced at the exact rupee amounts remitted. Devices, desks and insurance extras bill through partners at usage. Compare routes with the EOR versus entity calculator before you brief a role.

Hiring developers in India, asked and answered.

Eight questions engineering and ops leaders raise before briefing a role, answered as on our calls. The eighth is about when not to use us.

How do I hire developers in India without opening a company?

Use an employer of record. We put each developer on a compliant full-time contract with Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru, run their payroll and statutory filings, and you manage their work day to day under a service agreement with us. Incorporation never enters the picture.

Which developer roles can you hire for in India?

Twenty-seven and counting: the index above spans web stacks like Python, PHP, Node.js and Rails, platforms like Salesforce, Shopify, Magento and Odoo, mobile, AI and ML, data, DevOps, QA automation and network engineering. Each role page carries its own pay bands and vetting notes.

Is it better to hire Indian developers as contractors or employees?

For anything long-term, employees. Contractor arrangements dodge PF and gratuity today but build up misclassification exposure that surfaces at funding diligence or exit. Under three months, a contract is fine. Beyond that, proper employment through an EOR costs little more and removes the risk.

What does a developer in India cost all-in?

Salary at market rate for the role, employer statutory additions such as PF at 12% of basic, and our $149 monthly fee. Salary and contributions appear on your invoice at actual rupee cost converted at the RBI rate. The individual role pages publish indicative pay bands.

How fast can a developer in India start?

If you bring the candidate, five business days from offer to payroll. If we source, add roughly nine days for the shortlist plus your interview loop. Either way the employment layer never becomes the bottleneck.

Do you vet developers or just employ them?

Both, your choice. EOR alone means you pick the person and we employ them. Add recruitment at 12% of annual CTC and we source against the role page criteria, screen for communication and timezone reliability, and send a shortlist within nine days.

Can developers across different stacks sit under one agreement?

Yes. One master service agreement covers every role you hire, one invoice covers every developer, and headcount pools across stacks toward the twenty-one-person threshold where the fee drops to $129 for all of them.

When should I not hire through an EOR?

Three honest cases. You already operate an Indian entity that runs payroll fine. The engagement is under three months, where a contract beats employment on cost. Or you want permanent developers kept indefinitely on contractor paper, which we turn down as misclassification risk.

Longer reading: EOR India 2026 · EOR India playbook · Pay employees in India

Tell us where you are on the decision.

A role you want to hire, a team you want moved, or just the two routes to compare. A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours.

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What the first call covers

30 minutes

A cost comparison for your headcount, on your numbers, both routes.

  • A written cost breakdown
  • Entity documents before the call
  • PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
  • No follow-up sequence
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