Custom software development
Production systems for Austin B2B SaaS, vertical AI, marketplaces, and consumer products. TypeScript, Python, Go, Postgres, Snowflake on AWS us-east-2 or GCP us-central1 (Texas-adjacent regions for latency).
Locations · Austin, TX
Software Development Company in Austin — Nearshore Engineering Teams
YuSMP Group builds custom software, MVPs, and AI integrations for Austin SaaS founders, California relocators, and AI-native startups through senior EU nearshore teams. Production-grade Claude 4.6, GPT-4o, o3 and Llama 4 systems, Texas-friendly contracting through a German GmbH, TDPSA-aware engineering, dedicated teams from 12,000 EUR per month. The engineering capacity to match the founder energy that has moved to Austin since 2022.
Austin in 2026 is the most-changed US tech market of the decade. The Tesla HQ move from Palo Alto in 2021, Oracle's earlier relocation, the Apple campus build-out in north Austin, Indeed's expansion, the wave of founder relocations from California and New York for tax climate and quality of life, and a now-mature Austin venture scene (Live Oak, ATX Venture Partners, Capital Factory, plus a steady flow of Bay-Area capital flying in for deals) have reshaped the city. Senior engineer comp is up about 35 percent since 2022. SaaS founders relocating from the Bay Area after exits have made Austin the second-densest concentration of repeat technical founders in the US after SF itself. The constraint is no longer cost — Austin is no longer the cheap alternative to SF it was in 2018 — the constraint is engineering depth. The Austin senior engineering market is real but shallow relative to demand from Tesla, Oracle, Apple, Indeed, and the wave of well-funded local startups. Time-to-hire for a senior full-stack engineer runs 72 days, longer if the role demands ML production experience. We are the asymmetric add-on: senior EU engineers, fast to start, contracted through a German GmbH with Delaware-compatible IP assignment and Travis County venue, priced at roughly half of fully-loaded Austin comp.
Six software services we deliver for Austin clients
MVP development
From 25,000 EUR and 6 to 10 weeks to a fundable demo. Austin founders shipping in time for seed or Series-A conversations, plus AI-native architecture from day one for vertical AI startups.
Dedicated development teams
2 to 12-engineer squads embedded in your Slack, Linear, GitHub, Jira. Same team for 12+ months, no rotations. From 12,000 EUR per month per pair, 3 to 4 hours of daily Central-Time overlap.
AI & ML integration
Claude 4.6, GPT-4o, o3, Llama 4 integrations for Austin vertical AI SaaS. Agents (LangGraph), RAG (pgvector, Pinecone), fine-tuning, eval-driven iteration. The Bay-Area-grade AI engineering you would otherwise need to fly in.
Cloud & DevOps
AWS us-east-2 (Ohio, Texas-low-latency) and us-west-2, GCP us-central1, Terraform, EKS, RDS Postgres. FinOps reviews that consistently cut AWS bills 25 to 40 percent in the first quarter.
Compliance engineering
SOC 2 Type I/II, TDPSA (Texas Data Privacy and Security Act), CCPA for California users, GDPR for European users, HIPAA for Austin healthtech, PCI DSS scope reduction. Controls in code, not slideware.
Why nearshore from the EU vs hiring locally in Austin
Austin senior engineer comp in 2026 is no longer the bargain it was in 2018. Senior backend or full-stack engineers earn 165k to 215k base, 220k to 290k fully loaded once you add equity, benefits, payroll taxes, and Domain-corridor or downtown office space. Senior ML engineers with foundation-model production experience push 250k+ base and are essentially impossible to hire away from Tesla AI, Oracle, the Apple Austin campus, or the well-funded local AI startups. Time-to-hire for a senior full-stack engineer runs 72 days through an in-house recruiter, 90+ for ML. Voluntary attrition for senior Austin SaaS engineers ran at 14 percent in 2025 — lower than SF, higher than Boston. The Austin market is real but shallow relative to demand: every well-funded Austin startup is competing with Tesla AI, Oracle's product orgs, Apple, Indeed, the relocators from California, and each other.
Our senior EU engineers bill 65 to 95 EUR per hour all-in. A four-person dedicated team is 12,000 to 22,000 EUR per month (155k to 280k USD per year), versus 880k to 1.16M USD per year for the same four engineers in Austin. Time-to-team is three to five weeks. The engineers we put on Austin accounts are senior product engineers and ML engineers who have shipped at scale in EU SaaS and AI startups; the Austin SaaS founder who recently relocated from the Bay Area finds the working rhythm familiar within the first sprint. Attrition on our side ran at 6 percent in 2025 — less than half the Austin local rate.
Three typical Austin client scenarios
Bay-Area relocator founder, downtown Austin
Repeat founder who exited a previous SaaS, relocated to Austin in 2024, raised a 4M USD seed for vertical AI in legal-tech or insurance. Two engineers hired locally, need three more in 30 days. We embed a 3-engineer team (1 ML, 1 backend, 1 full-stack) on Claude 4.6 + Next.js + Postgres + pgvector. From 14,000 EUR/month.
Series-A B2B SaaS in the Domain
60-person Austin SaaS company, Series-A done 18 months ago, prepping Series-B. Engineering bottleneck is platform work (multi-tenancy, billing migration to usage-based, SOC 2 Type II readiness). We add a 4-engineer platform squad alongside their Austin core. SOC 2 Type II audit in month 9. From 17,500 EUR/month.
Pre-seed AI-native founder, East Austin
Solo technical founder, vertical AI agent for a regulated industry the founder knows from a prior career. Pre-seed in 8 to 10 weeks for a Capital Factory or ATX Venture conversation. We embed 1 ML + 1 full-stack engineer. Claude 4.6 + agent harness + Next.js + Stripe. 32,000 EUR fixed-price MVP.
Stack we run for Austin clients
TypeScript / Next.js
Python / FastAPI
Go
Postgres
pgvector / Pinecone
Snowflake / dbt
AWS us-east-2 / us-west-2
Terraform
EKS
Datadog
Stripe / Orb
WorkOS / Clerk
Claude 4.6
GPT-4o / o3
Llama 4
LangGraph
Braintrust / LangSmith
SOC 2 (Drata)
TDPSA
HIPAA BAA
Legal entity, contracting, and IP
YuSMP Group contracts with Austin clients through YuSMP GmbH, registered in Berlin, Germany. Master Services Agreements are typically governed by Delaware law with venue in Travis County, Texas for Austin-headquartered clients (or the client's preferred US venue); NDA and IP assignment language is matched to a Delaware C-corp's founder paper so investor and acquirer diligence is clean. We sign HIPAA Business Associate Agreements for healthtech, DPAs aligned to GDPR, CCPA, and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act for SaaS handling consumer data, and PCI DSS attestations where applicable. All code, infrastructure-as-code, model artefacts, designs, and documentation transfer to the client as work-for-hire on invoice payment; no background-IP carve-outs except clearly disclosed open-source dependencies, delivered as a documented bill of materials per release.
Pricing anchors
MVP from 25,000 EUR
6 to 10-week fixed-price MVP for Austin pre-seed and seed founders. AI-native architecture where the product is AI-native, ship to demo and first pilot customers.
Dedicated team from 12,000 EUR/mo
2-engineer pair on a 12-month engagement, full-time, same team. Scales to 12 engineers per squad before we split into pods. Bay-Area-relocator founders find the operating rhythm familiar.
Fractional CTO from 4,500 EUR/mo
For Austin founders between CTO hires or running engineering hiring, architecture, vendor selection, and SOC 2 / TDPSA readiness in parallel. See the fractional CTO page.
How an Austin engagement starts
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Discovery call
30-minute Zoom with the founder or CTO. We map the work, the stack, the seed or Series-A countdown, and any TDPSA, HIPAA, or PCI scope.
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Scoped proposal
Within 5 business days: written proposal with team composition, deliverables, monthly pricing, and a 3-month minimum term. MSA and SOW drafts attached, Travis County venue option included.
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Kickoff & embedding
Week 1: engineers in your Slack, Linear, GitHub. Engagement lead meets your Austin team on Zoom daily for the first sprint, in Austin in person at quarter end if scope justifies the flight.
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Operating cadence
Daily standup at 9:30 AM CT, weekly sprint review, bi-weekly retro, monthly written status report. Quarterly business review on-site in Austin if scope justifies the flight.
Frequently asked questions from Austin founders
How does the Austin engineering market look in 2026 after the Tesla and Oracle relocations?
Austin in 2026 has the strongest 5-year compound growth of any US tech metro. Tesla's HQ relocation to Austin, Oracle's earlier move, Indeed's expansion, the Apple campus build-out in north Austin, and a wave of California founders relocating personally for tax climate and quality of life have pushed senior engineer comp up about 35 percent since 2022. Senior backend or full-stack now runs 165k to 215k base, 220k to 290k fully loaded with equity, benefits, payroll taxes, and Domain-corridor or downtown office space. Time-to-hire is 72 days. The market is no longer cheap relative to SF, but it is still 20 to 30 percent below SF or NYC for the same role.
Are you a fit for an Austin SaaS founder coming from a California exit?
Yes, and this is a fast-growing slice of our Austin book. Typical profile: founder relocated from the Bay Area, exited a previous startup, has 1M to 5M USD of personal capital plus a seed round, building B2B SaaS or vertical AI for an industry they know. They want SF-quality engineering judgement and execution without rebuilding an in-house team from scratch in a less-deep Austin engineering market. We embed a 3 to 5-engineer team within 4 weeks, run the operating cadence the founder is used to, and let them focus on product, customers, and the next raise rather than recruiting.
What is your time-zone overlap with Austin (Central Time)?
Austin is Central Time, one hour behind New York and Boston. Our CET engineers overlap roughly 3 hours per day with a 9 AM CT Austin team (9 AM to 12 PM CT, which is 4 PM to 7 PM CET). Less than the East-Coast overlap, more than San Francisco. For accounts that need a wider overlap, we shift one or two engineers per pod to a 11:00–20:00 CET workday, stretching the overlap window to 11 AM to 1 PM CT — a solid 4-hour synchronous window for joint standups and design reviews.
Can you support Texas-specific compliance like the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA)?
Yes. TDPSA, in effect since 2024, broadly aligns with the patterns we already implement for GDPR and CCPA: consumer rights workflows (access, delete, correct, opt-out of sale and targeted advertising), data minimisation, sensitive-data consent, and a recognised universal opt-out signal. We map the controls into your stack alongside the SOC 2 work, write the privacy notice and DSAR handler, and produce the records of processing documentation the Texas AG would expect if they came asking. We also support HIPAA, PCI DSS scope reduction, and SOC 2 Type I/II for Austin SaaS and healthtech clients.
Will you sign contracts with Delaware IP assignment and US-law venue?
We contract through YuSMP GmbH (Berlin, Germany) for EU and US clients. Master Services Agreements are typically governed by Delaware law with venue in Travis County, Texas for Austin-based clients, or the client's preferred US venue. NDA and IP assignment language matches a Delaware C-corp's standard founder paper so investor and acquirer diligence is clean. We sign HIPAA BAAs for healthtech, DPAs aligned to GDPR, CCPA, and TDPSA for SaaS handling consumer data, and PCI DSS attestations where relevant. All code, infrastructure, and documentation transfer to you as work-for-hire on payment.