Software Mind S.A.

I am the SVP, Engineering of a legal technology company

We are a SaaS company in the Legal Technology area. We provide cutting edge technology solutions to lawyers and legal professionals.

Referral

6-10 Employees

Software Mind Engineers joined various teams to help with product delivery. They were embedded on the teams. For the senior engineers, they helped with architecture and system design, along with actual coding, deployment, testing and maintenance that all engineers did. Our teams are made up of both UI and BE Engineers. For the UI development, all new development is in React, along with transitioning from Backbone. For the BE development, we have a mix of C#, Python and Kotlin in various microservices.

Software Mind has helped us with staff augmentation for our Web App Development. As a startup, we were growing quickly, but had so much functionality and features to add. We needed more help with UI & BE development, in particular in the same time zone as the rest of the Engineering group. Of course, we were also cost sensitive.

The 1st two engineers worked out so well, we expanded our relationship, adding more engineers over time. When we needed to increase our capacity, we would ask ourselves if we wanted to reach out to Software Mind or hire employees.

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Some of the Software Engineers we have had are at the highest level and I would trust them with any software development challenge.

I am the Director of AI Solutions and Research of Logically

Provides software development and UI/UX services across industries and geographies

6-10 Employees

Timely Delivery of Project ItemsAdherence to Timelines:

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What impressed us was their professionalism, and proficiency in different areas of design, engineering, project management, and customer service. Also, their ability to be flexible to meet the demands and needs of the customer with quick turnaround and relentless passion to deliver high quality service

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I am the Head of Engineering of Pythiasports

We provide B2B services in the betting industry

Referral

2-5 Employees

We needed to build a small team with different profile: software engineer, devops and QA. The team was meant to be onboarded with our existing staff and join our delivery cadence. Software Mind managed the sourcing of the staff and the regular touch points with them, ensuring a continuous delivery of service throughout.

Sourcing the new talents was very fast and to high standards. The onboarding was very smooth thank to the ability of the team to regroup physically in the remote location. In 4 weeks the team started to contribute nicely to our project. Software Mind kept a close eye on the team performance and helped us make sure teammates were always at the expected level. Software Mind stayed available to feedback and helped going beyond the original scope of the project by expanding our resources with them.

Software Mind stayed on top of delivery from their talents, keeping a loop of feedback with us and reacted quickly to changes when they happened. The added staff truly boosted our team velocity as a result.

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The quality and dedication of the staff Software Mind provides are impressive. Also, the level of support teammates benefit via Software Mind's infrastructure.

They could be a bit more engaged into sponsoring business trips / on site events for the resources we hire ; this is very beneficial to them and the balance of the project. Everything else is spot on!

I’m a delivery manager in the IT department of Baillie Gifford & Co. Our headquarters are in Edinburgh, Scotland. I head up the Kraków office and am based in Poland for most of the year.

We wanted to extend our application development capability and it was getting tougher to hire experienced IT staff in Edinburgh.

Software Mind has collaborated with us on several tasks and are currently working across eight different projects. These projects consist of in-house applications for our office back in Edinburgh—some are for the front office, some for the back office, and some are client-facing.

Initially, we started with two developers and now have 35 developers and two security developers on board. We have two tech lead architects who I speak to daily, as well as a project manager, who deals a lot with the people, helps with the recruitments, and keeps up with the projects and the work that we need to do. Some people from their team are relatively new to development and some are just new to Software Mind, so part of the focus has been getting them up to speed with the Software Mind’s processes and development style.

We looked around Europe, and after a bit of research, we chose to look for a vendor in Kraków and spoke to a few companies. We found Software Mind through a networking agency for multinationals and chose them because they had the flexibility, experience, and talented people.

We spend around €2 million per year (approximately $2,232,998 USD) on their services.

We started working with them in May 2018 and the collaboration is still ongoing.

Started working on one project with some augmented staff and over the years the team has grown to the extent that we have just under 30 people spread across multiple internal projects. Relationship with the Software Mind team has grown where we now share best practices and also learn from each other in different areas such as guilds, big data, AI etc.

Happy with the relationship just now and hoping we continue to build out more capabilities across different areas.

Start small, get used to working with the team and then build up when you are happy the team are adding value.

Derek Martin

Software Mind ramps up the company’s development efforts, assisting with a variety of tasks that span several projects. Some of the apps they’re working on are client-facing and some are for in-house use.

The products that are live get only positive feedback from users, and have had minimal to no bugs or other issues. Collaborating with Software Mind is easy thanks to their daily-stand up calls and regular face-to-face meetings. They have really high standards when it comes to producing quality code.

I’m a delivery manager in the IT department of Baillie Gifford & Co. Our headquarters are in Edinburgh, Scotland. I head up the Kraków office and am based in Poland for most of the year.

We wanted to extend our application development capability and it was getting tougher to hire experienced IT staff in Edinburgh.

Software Mind has collaborated with us on several tasks and are currently working across eight different projects. These projects consist of in-house applications for our office back in Edinburgh—some are for the front office, some for the back office, and some are client-facing.

Initially, we started with two developers and now have 35 developers and two security developers on board. We have two tech lead architects who I speak to daily, as well as a project manager, who deals a lot with the people, helps with the recruitments, and keeps up with the projects and the work that we need to do. Some people from their team are relatively new to development and some are just new to Software Mind, so part of the focus has been getting them up to speed with the Software Mind’s processes and development style.

We looked around Europe, and after a bit of research, we chose to look for a vendor in Kraków and spoke to a few companies. We found Software Mind through a networking agency for multinationals and chose them because they had the flexibility, experience, and talented people.

We spend around €2 million per year (approximately $2,232,998 USD) on their services.

We started working with them in May 2018 and the collaboration is still ongoing.

Users have been pleased with the products that have gone live. These have gotten through testing pretty smoothly, without many bugs or defects. We've received positive feedback so far.

Project management has gone fairly well. Most of the team is based in Edinburgh, and the Software Mind team is here in Poland, so we use Microsoft Teams for day-to-day communication, Zoom for video conferencing, and a Scrum-based approach to development.

The most impressive things about Software Mind are their high standards and the quality of the code they build. They strive to make their code as best as possible and want to deliver within a decent timeframe. We tend to focus on making sure the type of solution is what our users want. Software Mind works on the priority features first and then continue to develop the product, making sure it's all usable for the business from the start.

The main thing I've received comments about is that Software Mind will sometimes be very quiet via Zoom conferencing, making it a challenge to try and get enough conversations going. I think it's more of a cultural and distance-related issue. We don't experience the same situation when meeting face-to-face. When it comes to the quality of the code, it has all worked really well.

Make sure that someone is working closely with them. There has to be constant communication to make sure that things are moving along and the desired quality is being achieved.

I’m a principal for a management consultancy. We specialize in procurement and supply chain management. My core area of responsibility is roadmap delivery in the software field.

We have in-house developers, but we needed Software Mind to provide us with staff augmentation resources who could be more flexible.

When a developer role opens on our team, we search for candidates ourselves first and bring in Software Mind for support as needed. They’re responsible for sourcing candidates, submitting them to us, and including us in the interview process. Once we’ve hired a resource, Software Mind also helps with the onboarding process by running them through demos and getting them up to speed on the project.

We’ve worked with an account manager, a software tester, and various developers.

We found Software Mind through a referral.

We’ve invested close to £1 million (approximately $1.2 million USD).

We started working together in July 2019, and our engagement is ongoing.

We measure success by how quickly the Software Mind team finds qualified individuals to fill our open developer roles. Additionally, we look for certain soft skills during our interview process with candidates.

Our account manager is responsive, transparent, and friendly. They’re always willing to help and be flexible when our plans change. Our technical leads who oversee Software Mind’s developers speak highly of them. We’ve had no issues with the developers; they’re very much a part of our team. They’re responsive via Microsoft Teams chat.

I’m most impressed by their professional demeanor and the level of talent they’ve introduced us to. The staff gets up to speed quickly during the onboarding process. The Software Mind developers really embody our company values; they adapt to change and operate as part of our team. It’s hard to tell the difference between our in-house developers and theirs.

We haven’t asked for this, but they could be more forthcoming with their ideas and thought leadership regarding what they’ve seen on other projects.

If you already have an internal software development team, I encourage you to integrate Software Mind’s resources into your existing process. This will enable them to perform to the best of their ability.