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BE Associates

Capability · Software development

Dedicated engineering teams, managed to your standards.

We build and run permanent engineering teams in Prishtina for UK software businesses and technology-led companies. You set the roadmap and technical direction. We hold responsibility for the people, the performance and the overhead.

Two developers at adjacent desks, working with code on their monitors.

Roles we staff

A complete team, not a set of individuals.

  • Engineers

    Front-end, back-end and full-stack engineers from mid-level to principal, working in your stack.

  • QA & test

    Manual and automation engineers who own regression coverage and release confidence.

  • Platform & DevOps

    Infrastructure, CI/CD and observability specialists keeping delivery predictable.

  • Delivery lead

    A named lead running standups, reporting and performance on our side of the engagement.

Who owns what

Clear lines, agreed before anyone starts.

Ambiguity is what makes distributed teams fail. We write the division of responsibility into the engagement document and review it every quarter.

You own

Product direction, architecture decisions, backlog priority, code review standards and final hiring approval.

We own

Recruitment and vetting, employment and payroll, workspace and equipment, retention, performance management and reporting.

Shared

Onboarding, sprint ceremonies, quality standards, security practice and the quarterly engagement review.

Engagement shapes

Three ways clients start with us.

Most engagements begin with a single pod and grow. Each shape carries the same management layer and the same monthly commercial model.

How pods are managed
  • Single engineering pod

    Four to eight people with a delivery lead, owning a product area end to end. The usual starting point.

  • Multi-pod programme

    Several pods across platform, product and QA, coordinated by an engagement lead reporting to your CTO.

  • Embedded specialists

    Individual engineers joining your existing team where you need depth in one discipline rather than a full pod.

Engagement evidence

A nine-person platform team inside five weeks.

A UK SaaS business replaced a stalled contractor model with a managed engineering pod and returned to a fortnightly release cadence.

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Practices we work within

Trunk-based or Git-flow branching · pull-request review with your standards · automated regression suites · infrastructure as code · documented release process · security and access review at onboarding and quarterly thereafter.

Typical timeline

  • Week 1—2 · Requirement, scope and role definition agreed
  • Week 2—4 · Sourcing, assessment and your shortlist interviews
  • Week 4—6 · Onboarding, access, induction and first sprint
  • Quarterly · Formal engagement review with written report

Tell us what the engineering team needs to deliver.