UK SaaS Company — Building an India Engineering Team Through EOR
A London-headquartered SaaS company wanted to hire engineers in India to test the market — without setting up a subsidiary. NDSA's Employer of Record desk let them build a team in days, with the compliance handled quietly in the background.
Confident about the talent, wary of everything around it
A London-headquartered SaaS company wanted to hire engineers in India to extend its product team, but wasn't ready to commit to setting up a subsidiary just to test the market.
The bigger worry wasn't the hiring itself — it was everything around it: payroll, provident fund, ESIC, professional tax, and labour law obligations they had no visibility into and no desire to get wrong from six and a half thousand kilometres away.
The legal employer, so the client stayed in control
NDSA's Employer of Record desk became the legal employer for the India hires, issuing fully compliant Indian employment contracts and running payroll, statutory deductions, and filings end to end — while the client retained complete day-to-day control over the team's work.
The first two engineers were onboarded within twelve days of sign-off, with no entity setup required on the client's side.
"EOR exists for exactly this moment — when a company is confident about the talent but not yet ready to set up an entity. NDSA handles the compliance layer quietly in the background so the hiring decision is the only hard part left."
A six-person team, then a subsidiary of their own
Within two months, the company had a six-person India engineering team in place at a meaningfully lower fully-loaded cost than hiring the same roles in the UK.
A year on, with the India bet proven out, the company is now incorporating its own Indian subsidiary, and NDSA is managing the transition of the team from EOR to direct payroll without any disruption to the engineers.
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