How we work

From the first call to the first working day.After that, your developer works as part of your team.

We recruit and screen developers in Serbia. You interview the candidates and decide who you continue with. We then take care of the workstation, security and admin, and your developer works in your own sprints.

Colleagues at a glass wall full of sticky notes during a working session
A working session in our office
Four steps

From vacancy to colleague.

  1. Step 1

    Introduction

    Together

    In Amsterdam or online, we discuss who you are looking for and how your team works.

  2. Step 2

    Recruitment

    Us

    We recruit and screen in Serbia, including a practical technical test. Within 7 days we put three candidates in front of you who fit the role.

  3. Step 3

    Selection

    You

    You interview the candidates yourself and decide who you continue with.

  4. Step 4

    Start

    Us

    Onboarding starts within 3 weeks. On day one the workstation, the laptop and the accounts are set up. From then on your developer takes part in your sprints and stand-ups, and you get a weekly update.

Working together

How the collaboration runs.

Your developers work in your repository and tools, and follow your review process.

Contact with the team

A dedicated space for your team

Your team has a fixed space in our office in Belgrade, Novi Sad or Niš, set up in your company's branding. Your developers work there side by side every day.

Direct contact

You talk to your developers directly, with no one in between.

Visits both ways

We organise visits both ways: you come to Serbia to meet the team, and your developers come to the Netherlands.

Delivery and quality

Sprint rhythm

Fixed sprints for ongoing work, or sprints per milestone when the project calls for it.

Weekly update

You hear what is done, what is blocked and what is planned for next week.

Manual and automated testing

Manual QA plus automated unit, end-to-end and regression tests. A change goes live only after that.

Recruitment and screening

Background check

We check the background of every developer before they start.

Several interview rounds

We assess technical skill and how someone will fit into your team.

Practical test

Candidates take a practical technical test, with tasks that match the role.

Security and GDPR

Managed laptops

We manage every laptop centrally with Microsoft Intune: full-disk encryption, screen lock and remote wipe.

Access and permissions

Sign-in runs through single sign-on with mandatory two-factor authentication. Everyone gets only the access their role needs, and we revoke credentials as soon as someone leaves.

GDPR and encryption

Our way of working is aligned with the GDPR and NIS2. Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256).

Brainpower Group office in Serbia
Niš · Science Technology Park

The developers work in our own offices, not from home.

Terms

A two-week trial, then month to month.

Start

Day one

Desk and accounts are ready

You choose from the candidates we recruit and screen. We then arrange the desk, the laptop and the accounts, so your developer can start on day one.

Trial

Two weeks

You only pay if you continue

Every new developer starts with a two-week trial. If you continue, you pay for those two weeks and the contract carries on. If you do not, you pay nothing.

Contract

Monthly

Adjust or cancel each month

Contracts run month to month. Each month you can scale up or down, switch profiles or stop. You are not tied to a multi-year contract.

Custom software

Having a complete product built.

ESBL, the other half of the group, designs and builds complete products in-house.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Together we pin down the goals, the scope and the architecture. After that you know what we will build and why.

  2. 02

    Design and prototype

    We create the UX/UI design and a clickable prototype, so you see the product before we build it.

  3. 03

    Build and test

    We build in sprints, using AI tools such as Claude Code, with manual and automated testing. Every week you see what is done.

  4. 04

    Launch and further development

    The product goes live on scalable infrastructure. After that we keep developing it, at the pace you choose.

More about ESBL at esbl.digital ↗
Contact
Bas Leijder HavenstroomMaarten ter VeldeBarry Willems

Tell us who you are looking for.

An introduction takes half an hour, online or at our office in Amsterdam. In the chat we usually reply within a few minutes.

Or call +31 20 210 1978hello@brainpowergroup.eu

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