Nigerian companies are hiring software developers in India — Here’s Why?

In 2001, GSM was introduced in Nigeria. Since then, the penetration of internet in Nigeria has moved from a few thousands to over 108 million internet users. Nigeria currently ranks as one of the fastest growing internet users in Africa with a 49% penetration rate.

Ecommerce grew rapidly with affordable smartphones and cheap data in Nigeria. This birthed startups such as Konga and several other players in Nigeria’s nascent ecommerce industry. Next comes on-demand services in Nigeria. This market is growing fast. One of the reasons why the on-demand delivery market is growing is its ability to reach last-mile customers and offer more custom selection of products to users. All in all, its driving massive demand for software & app developers in Nigeria. Asia is one of the top destinations for IT services, many Nigerian companies are hiring software developers in India or setting up small offshore development center.

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On the other side, India has been one of the best IT outsourcing destinations. Because of cultural similarities and English as a primary language of communication, Companies in Nigeria are finding it easy to setup offshore development centers in India by hiring top developers / app developers or a full-scale team.

The web and mobile developers here are versatile and efficient workers. African companies, which are not having offices in India, are hiring remote developers to work on their assignment. Hiring remote developers means, your developer is not limited to a certain geographic location. You might get the best ones, regardless of location and get benefit from highly professional and talented people from multiple locations.

Benefits of Hiring Offshore Developers

Hire top developers any-where in the world.

Hassle-free access to global workforce

Define your work timezone

Lower cost of team ownership

Higher retention rate

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You must go through following, if you are willing to hire dedicated developers in India or Asia.

Flexibility

Nowadays most of the company functions as a R.O.W.E (Result Only Work Environment), but some still have a stronghold on the old fashioned only working apart from any other activities. But if you are looking to hire top talent, try to lose the traditional workplace as much as you can. The great way to pull the attention of new talent to your company is by listing your remote company’s flexible work policy in its job description.

Where to look

To source remote developers who can be right for your company, look for specialized sites that cater to your platform-specific app developers like PHP, JavaScript, .NET, Xamarin, Ionic. I suggest Linkedin to be the best site where you can find key roles and responsibilities of app and web app developer explained properly. You can also find certification done, as well as its day to day industry update activities to judge its skills.

Soft skills

Education, experience and technical knowledge is a common thing found in every candidate. Instead, I’ll suggest HRs’ to look for soft skills i.e., time management, tech-savvy, and strong communicator that is necessary to work remotely.

Main Advantages of Outsourcing in India

It is well known that the cost of labor in Western countries like the United States is high. So, when it comes to comparing price and also the quality of work, India has a vast pool of talent that is available at a comparatively inexpensive rate. By shifting their business service to a developing country like India, companies can leverage cost differences and get their services completed at a much lower price. Hiring a software team at lower cost is a major advantage but let me tell you a few more advantages that are also considered.

Reduced costs: Outsourcing to a third-party provider usually provides a large cost saving to businesses. For example, for a US company, getting a website developed and maintained in-house is much costlier than just outsourcing web development to an IT outsourcing service provider in India.

Focus on core competencies: Outsourcing lets the company dedicate concentrate on its business core operations.

Expertise: Outsourcing a business task like in a web development project, to a software

development outsourcing company expert in development results in a high-quality, on-time, bug-free product.

Scalability: According to the business requirements a company that hired a third party outsourcing company can increase or decrease in the size of the outsourced team. If a company hired a size of five remote developers for its project, but for some reason, it requires more developers, then the outsourcing service provider can easily scale up the team.

Skilled workforce: Another major benefit that Nigerian companies draw from offshoring is getting their work done by highly skilled and certified professionals. India is well acknowledged for its expert IT professionals, due to this reason many software companies have offshored their software development centers to India.

Infrastructure: With IT hubs in Bangalore, Gurgaon, and Hyderabad, India has proved itself to be a part of all the developed nations when it comes to IT infrastructure. Even the increased establishment of start-ups and SMEs are very well utilizing advanced technology tools to provide excellent web solutions.

Supportive Govt. Policies: It’s hard to find countries that have favorable and supportive government policies, whereas India is popular in terms of IT industry policies. The Information Technology Act and all other IT policies in India are supporting the industry’s growth.

Apart from the major these, there are many other perks of outsourcing web development tO India like consistent in quality, round the clock support, faster project delivery, and much more.

Process of Hiring Remote Software Teams in India

Facts to be considered to keep a detailed track of your remote web developers in India:

Take Interview: A remote developer is a judge based on how efficiently and timely communication and tasks are handled.

Sign Legal Agreements: Agreement such as NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) and other needful as per the client requirements.

Rapid Communication Tools: Remote developers should know how to handle communication software and also project management tools to help clients to see their progress with screen sharing, add tickets, keep track of work, etc.

Define Task for Developer: Assign a project manager to take a regular look at the project, provide reports and updated regularly.

Work Tracking Software: The software would provide a complete detailed report of the working hours, coding, and time is taken. This will both parties to have an idea on the on-going development.

IT service outsourced to India

Web Portal Development

Software Product Development

Content Management System (CMS)

ecommerce Solutions

e-Learning Systems

CRM Systems

MVP Development

Enterprise Information Portals

Intranet Applications

Customer ERP Systems

Legacy System Maintenance

Application Enhancement

Summing Up

Whether you want to minimize your cost, include advanced technologies towards growing your business, outsourcing to India could be the right step. There are many advantages you can avail, cost benefits you can leverage, timely updates on work, maintenance and round clock support, and technology stack you can bring to the table when you choose to outsource development to India.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why hire dedicated web developers?

If you want fast delivery of your project with absolute quality, it is a wise idea to opt for dedicated web developers who will work solely on your project and deliver you faster results.

Will you replace my programmer if I am not satisfied with the performance?

Yes. We will definitely replace your developer if we see that there is performance issue on the developer’s end.

How to hire a cost-effective team of application developers?

If you are planning to hire web developers and have a budget constraint, then it is better to go for a mid scale Indian web development company. We are an Indian web development company with more than a decade of experience in delivering excellence to global clients.

What are the parameters to hire a web development company?

The web development company should have

Atleast 5 years of industry experience

Have build atleast 200+ apps

A team of more than 300 developers

Clients in more than 10 countries

If you get all these criterias fulfilled, then it is safe to hire web & mobile developers from that firm.

What is the experience criteria should I set before hiring an Android developer?

As Android has been there for more than a decade, you can find Android developers with more than 5 years of experience easily. However, if an Android developer has 3+ years of quality experience, then he can build a Android app quite comfortably.

How good is PHP programming language from security point of view?

PHP offers a strong authentication system as a backend language. Maybe PHP is not the most secure programming language but it offers ample number of features to make an application secure.