Offshore mobile developer for Pricena

The story of cooperation with AI Engineering

We had a pretty bad Android app and a very basic iOS app that didn’t have all the features we offered on our website, so we needed to hire a mobile app developer who could help us reach those of our users who prefer to browse product prices on their phones. Our previous experience with IT outsourcing wasn’t very successful, so we started looking for a better option and decided to partner up with AI Engineering. With AI Engineering, we were able to hire a mobile developer with just the skills we needed.

Value delivered

Our Android app now has 4.3 stars and over 50,000 downloads on Google Play, and we’ve added a lot of new features to the iOS app, including a user management system, special offers for app users, and many more. We’ve also hired a full-stack developer through Grid Dynamics to help us with the web version of Pricena.

Why AI Engineering

I don’t see AI Engineering as an IT outsourcing vendor. The offshore developers are my full-time employees who’re just working from AI Engineering’s office in Ukraine, and I’m very happy with them. They’re part of the day-to-day aspects of our business, we solve problems together – it’s not a short-term partnership. When you work with dedicated developers, you know they’ll do their best to deliver high quality work.

Tips

Here are some tips on how to manage remote developers:

• Hire developers who don’t require too much guidance and can manage the job independently;
• State some ground rules that you want to have at the job from the very start of your cooperation;
• Don’t question the commitment of your offshore developers to the project;
• Keep each other notified about the times when you’re going to be unavailable online.