Software Development Company in New York — Remote Italian Engineers for NYC Startups and Enterprises
New York has the most expensive engineering labor market on the East Coast. Senior full-stack salaries in NYC regularly run above $220,000 base plus equity. That math works for a flagship FAANG-adjacent role, but not for the fifth, tenth or twentieth senior hire in a Series A or B startup — and not for mid-market businesses that need a strong engineering team without the compensation bill of a tech unicorn.
RemoteDevsItaly provides senior Italian remote engineers to New York companies across the five boroughs and the broader NYC metro. Our engineers work your hours, commit to your repos, join your standups, and cost 40-60% less than comparable NYC senior hires.
Why New York Companies Work With Us
NYC tech leaders face three structural problems: local senior supply does not match demand, competitive offers force constant counter-bidding, and cost of living pressure on both sides turns into retention churn. Remote senior engineers from Italy relieve all three — with the crucial advantage that Italian CET is 6 hours ahead of ET, giving 5-6 hours of productive working overlap every day.
Compared to offshore options commonly used by New York companies looking to cut costs, our model keeps your engineering culture intact. Same tools, same standups, same velocity — from a country with comparable engineering standards to the US.
Industries We Serve in New York
We focus on verticals with strong product-engineering needs outside of the financial services space. In New York this includes:
- E-commerce and retail-tech: NYC is the country’s largest retail and fashion hub, with a deep bench of e-commerce brands at every scale. We build custom storefronts, headless commerce integrations, merchant dashboards and customer data platforms.
- SaaS: mid-market and enterprise B2B SaaS companies need senior engineers for feature velocity, platform reliability and integration work.
- Media and AdTech: content platforms, streaming, advertising operations — high-throughput systems with real-time constraints.
- Marketplaces: two-sided marketplaces across verticals (services, goods, professional networks) need engineers who understand matching, trust and growth engineering.
- EdTech: NYC hosts a large EdTech ecosystem with direct B2C, K-12 and higher-ed products.
- Real-estate-tech: property search, rental operations, property management platforms.
- Media-tech and productivity tools
Typical Engagements With NYC Companies
- Two senior full-stack engineers augmenting an in-house product team, same sprint rituals, one working from Milan and one from Rome
- A dedicated 4-engineer team owning a full product area (admin portal, integrations platform, internal tooling) with a tech lead based in Turin
- A 3-month project engagement to migrate a legacy monolith, replace an offshore-built module that is no longer maintainable, or ship an MVP for a new product line
Rates in Context
A senior full-stack engineer through us typically runs $8,000-$11,000 per month. A senior NYC equivalent, fully loaded (salary + equity + benefits + overhead), rarely falls below $20,000-$25,000 per month. For a team of five senior engineers, the annual difference is the equivalent of funding an additional senior lead or covering two years of infrastructure costs.
When Companies Switch to Us
A meaningful share of our NYC clients come to us after a disappointing outsourcing engagement elsewhere — usually a large offshore vendor where the senior engineers they interviewed were gradually swapped for juniors, communication degraded, and velocity dropped. The pattern is consistent enough that we have built our onboarding and client management specifically to not repeat it.
Our engineers are named, vetted, and stay on your engagement for the long term. Turnover is low because we operate on long-term contracts with our engineers, not gig-style placements. If an engineer leaves us, it is rare and we replace them with a direct handover — you see the handoff plan before it happens.
If you are in the middle of one of those engagements right now, our guide to switching software vendors without losing the project walks through the assessment and transition we run before writing any code.
Local Salary Context
New York City senior software engineer compensation is among the highest in the country. According to industry salary surveys, the median senior full-stack engineer in NYC earns $180,000-$220,000 base salary before equity, bonuses and benefits. Fully loaded (salary + equity + benefits + payroll tax + office overhead), a single NYC senior engineer costs an employer $22,000-$28,000 per month.
Italian senior engineers through RemoteDevsItaly run $8,000-$11,000 per month all-in. For a five-engineer team, the annual difference — $660,000 to $1,020,000 — is the equivalent of an entire additional product team or 18 months of extended runway at the same burn rate.
How We Onboard With NYC Teams
New York runs on Eastern Time. Our Italian engineers in CET start their workday at 9:00 AM CET (3:00 AM ET) and work through 6:00-7:00 PM CET (12:00-1:00 PM ET). The productive overlap window is 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET every working day — four hours of real-time collaboration.
Typical onboarding schedule for a NYC team:
- Week 1: Welcome call at 10:00 AM ET (4:00 PM CET), accounts provisioned, dev environment setup, first PR merged by Friday
- Week 2: Daily standup at 9:30 AM ET, pairing sessions on the first feature, code review integration
- Week 3: First independent feature start-to-finish, participate in sprint planning
- Week 4: Full velocity, first retrospective contribution, onboarding buddy relationship transitions to peer
NYC teams that do afternoon planning sessions (1:00-2:00 PM ET = 7:00-8:00 PM CET) can extend the overlap further — our engineers are flexible on end-of-day availability for important sessions.
NYC-Specific: The DTC and E-commerce Advantage
New York is the country’s largest hub for direct-to-consumer brands and fashion e-commerce. Italian engineers bring a distinctive advantage here: Italy’s own fashion and design industry has produced a deep pool of engineers with experience building e-commerce and retail-tech platforms — storefronts, inventory systems, personalization engines and multi-market expansion tooling. The cultural context of premium brand engineering translates directly to NYC DTC work.
Further Reading
Which New York industries are actually hiring engineers right now, and what they are building:
Getting Started
The fastest way to evaluate fit is a 30-minute call. If you are a hiring manager, CTO, VP of Engineering or founder with an engineering question — whether you are shopping for a new partner, trying to cut costs, or extracting yourself from a failing vendor — the call is free and we will give you an honest read even if we are not the right fit.
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