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Developers in Madagascar: A Dedicated Team That Ships Your Product
Working with developers in Madagascar through Etixio means entrusting your product to a dedicated French-speaking team that builds, tests and evolves it. The team is led by a tech lead, managed from France and embedded in your tools. It works one to two hours ahead of Paris and is accountable for what it delivers, not just for time spent.
Who it’s for
Software vendors, SMBs, mid-sized companies and CIOs with an ongoing roadmap
What you get
A team that ships, led by a tech lead
Time difference with Paris
+1 h in summer, +2 h in winter
Setup
Usually four to eight weeks
What we deliver
A team in Madagascar, judged on what it ships.
Hiring developers is not enough to ship a product. You also need a sound architecture, code reviews, tests, a steady release cadence and someone accountable for quality. That is what we organize in Madagascar: a team dedicated to your product, built around the work to be done, that joins your rituals and keeps knowledge of the code from one release to the next.
We do not place people with you. We take on delivery capacity, with an Etixio tech lead supervising the team and project management in France. To learn more about our teams there and how we are organized, see our Madagascar page.
Evolve an existing product
New features, APIs and integrations with your information system, progressive rework of parts of the codebase.
Take over and maintain an application
Review of the existing code, bug fixes, dependency updates, performance and security, documentation brought up to date.
Add AI to your software
Assistant, document search, extraction or summarization, built by the same team or by our AI team in Madagascar.
Who it’s for
When does a development team in Madagascar make sense?
Your roadmap exceeds your team’s capacity
Priorities pile up and hiring takes months. The team provides stable delivery capacity without lengthening your hiring cycles.
You work in French, or on European hours
Your specifications, business stakeholders and documentation are in French, or your teams work on European time. A French-speaking team whose working day overlaps yours removes a layer of translation and waiting.
Your product will evolve for years
Knowledge of the code, the users and past decisions builds up in a stable team, instead of starting over with every new provider.
For a scope defined upfront with a fixed budget, a fixed-price IT project is often a better fit; for a one-off skill, see targeted staffing.
Team composition & technologies
The profiles we bring in, based on your product.
The team brings together the skills your product needs, and its composition changes as the project moves through its phases. Every team is supervised by a tech lead.
Back-endBusiness logic, APIs, processing and databases.↗Front-endClear, fast web interfaces connected to the product’s services.↗Full-stackEnd-to-end features, from the interface to the data.↗MobileiOS and Android apps, native or cross-platform.↗QA & testingTest strategy, automated tests and acceptance testing.↗DevOpsContinuous integration, deployments and observable production.↗Tech leadArchitecture, code reviews and ownership of quality.↗
From kickoff to releases
How does your team in Madagascar get started and work?
Setup usually takes four to eight weeks, depending on the profiles needed and how clear the first scope is, with a gradual ramp-up.
Understand the product and the work ahead
Roadmap, architecture, technical debt, security constraints: together we define the skills needed and the first delivery scope.
Put the team together
Selection through hands-on technical exercises, interviews, then validation by your teams. The tech lead is named from the start.
Plug into your tools and rituals
Code repositories, ticket tracking, environments, review rules, demos. The team adopts your methods or we propose an agile framework.
Ship, measure, adjust
Regular releases, code reviews, automated tests and demos. The composition evolves with what is actually on the roadmap.
What your team receives
- Roles, responsibilities and contacts
- Release cadence and tracking metrics
- Code, documentation and ongoing handover
Management, quality and security
Managed from France, verifiable quality, code that belongs to you.
Management. A contact in France handles the relationship, priorities and scope decisions; the tech lead owns architecture choices and quality. Live discussions happen during your office hours, and important decisions are written down. See our organization.
Quality. Explicit development standards, systematic code reviews, automated tests run on every change and acceptance criteria before every production release. See our commitments.
Security. Role-based access, named accounts, secrets management, separate environments and, when personal data is involved, GDPR-compliant contractual safeguards and test data whenever possible.
Code ownership. The code, documentation and deliverables belong to you under the terms set in the contract, and they live in your repositories or are handed over as the work progresses. Continuity depends on neither a single person nor a single workstation.
Budget and first conversation
Preparing the first conversation.
The budget depends on the profiles, their seniority and the size of the team; the model is based on a monthly cost per person, which gives clear visibility. Tell us about your product, your roadmap and the challenges you face, and we will propose an initial team composition and first scope.
Frequently asked questions
Developers in Madagascar: your questions.
Why work with developers in Madagascar?
To get a French-speaking team whose working day almost fully overlaps with Western Europe, at a controlled cost. The real value, however, depends more on the organization around the team, technical leadership, quality practices and management, than on the country itself. Our article on IT outsourcing in Madagascar covers costs and engagement models.
How much does a developer in Madagascar cost?
It depends on seniority, technology, expected autonomy and the engagement model. At Etixio, a dedicated team is based on a monthly cost per person. See our offshore developer rates.
How long before the team is up and running?
Usually four to eight weeks, including needs analysis, selection, validation by your teams and onboarding. It is faster if the first scope is already clear.
Who supervises the developers day to day?
An Etixio tech lead supervises the team, owns the architecture and code reviews, and remains your point of contact on quality. The relationship and priorities are managed from France.
How are security and code ownership handled?
Through role-based access, separate environments, secrets management and contractual safeguards for data. Rights to the code and deliverables are defined at kickoff, and code is pushed to repositories you have access to.
How do you ensure delivery continuity?
Through organization: cloud-based tools and environments, redundant connections and workstations, backup power, the option to work remotely, handover with our teams in Mauritius, shared documentation and daily follow-up by project management and the tech lead. See our Madagascar page.
Can we combine teams in Madagascar and Mauritius?
Yes. Etixio has teams in both countries and builds the team around the skills required. See also our developers in Mauritius.
Let’s talk about your product and your roadmap.
Tell us what you want to build, who the users are and what your technical environment looks like. Together, we will define the scope and composition of the team.