Forward deployed engineering firms in Poland and Portugal

Nine firms in this guide name an office in Poland or Portugal, or list open roles there. This page shows each one, who states the fact, and what a buyer elsewhere should know about hiring a team in either country. Every page used here was read on 21 October 2026.

What nearshore means

You will often see the word nearshore on the websites of firms in Poland and Portugal. Nearshore means hiring a team in a nearby country, close enough that the two teams share most of their working day and can meet in person after a short flight. Offshore means hiring a team far away, in a time zone that shares little of your working day. A forward deployed engineer works inside the client's team, so the question for this work is how much of the working day the firm's engineers share with your people, and how easily they can travel to your site.

Why companies elsewhere hire teams in these two countries

There are three facts a buyer can check for itself.

Time zones. Portugal keeps the same clock time as the UK and Ireland. Poland keeps the same clock time as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. So a team in Lisbon works the same hours as a client in London, and a team in Warsaw works the same hours as a client in Paris or Berlin. For North America, the gap is wider, and the table below shows it.

EU membership. Poland and Portugal are both members of the European Union. A team in either country works under the same EU rules on personal data as a team in Germany or France. That matters when your engineers will see data about your customers or staff. You still need a contract that says where the data is kept and who can see it.

Where firms already are. Six firms in this guide name an office in Poland, three name an office in Portugal, and Fluxon lists roles in both. That gives a buyer several firms to compare in the same place.

A buyer may also expect lower pay in these countries. This guide did not find an official pay figure for software developers in Poland or Portugal among its sources, so it gives none. Compare written quotes from each firm.

Shared working hours with other cities

The table assumes a working day of 9:00 to 18:00 local time in each city, and the clock times that apply for most of the year. Europe and North America change their clocks on different dates in spring and autumn, so for a few weeks each year the gap is one hour smaller.

Client city	Hours a Lisbon team shares with it	Hours a Warsaw team shares with it
London or Dublin	9, the same clock time	8, Warsaw is one hour ahead
Paris, Berlin or Madrid	8, Lisbon is one hour behind	9, the same clock time
New York or Toronto	4, Lisbon is five hours ahead	3, Warsaw is six hours ahead
San Francisco or Vancouver	1, Lisbon is eight hours ahead	0, Warsaw is nine hours ahead

For a client on the US west coast, a team in either country shares little or none of a normal working day. The firm then has to agree on early starts, late finishes or written handovers between shifts. Ask each firm which hours its engineers will keep for your project.

The firms at a glance

Firm	City in Poland or Portugal	Who states it	Street address
Reveneau	None	Reveneau's own site	None in either country
Fluxon	Roles located in Poland and Portugal; no office named	Fluxon's careers page [12]	None
Netguru	Poznań	Netguru; the Polish court register [2]	Yes
10Clouds	Warsaw	10Clouds; the Polish court register; the Ministry of Finance VAT register [4]	Yes
STX Next	Poznań, Gliwice	STX Next; the Polish court register for Poznań [6]	Poznań only
Devoteam	Warsaw, Lisbon; its offices page also lists Porto	Devoteam [7]	Warsaw and Lisbon
Grid Dynamics	Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdansk	Grid Dynamics [8]	Yes
accilium	Warsaw	accilium [9]	No
Twistag	Lisbon	Twistag [10]	Yes
Tribe AI	Lisbon	Tribe AI's site footer [11]	No

What the Polish court register shows

Poland's National Court Register, known as KRS, is the official list of Polish companies, kept by the courts and published by the Ministry of Justice. Each entry shows the company's legal name, its registered seat and the date it entered the register. For three firms on this page, the register confirms the address the firm gives on its own site.

The register also shows that each current company entered the register later than the start date the firm gives for itself. Netguru S.A. entered on 24 August 2018, while Netguru's about page says it has "17+ years in the market" [2]. STX Next S.A. entered on 6 May 2022, while STX Next gives 2005 as its founding year [6]. 10Clouds Financial Institutions sp. z o.o. entered on 7 October 2022, while 10Clouds says it has built software since 2009 [4]. A firm can change its legal form or set up a new company over the years, so the two dates can both be true. This guide did not check the earlier companies. Ask which company will sign your contract.

Reveneau and Fluxon

Reveneau

Reveneau's offices are at 435 Utah Street in San Francisco and on Floor 33, 909 Mainland Street, in Vancouver, and it lists no office in Europe. Reveneau offers forward deployed engineers. By its own account, AI writes 100 percent of its code, and every change has to pass a large eval suite, a set of automated tests written from the specification, before it is released. Reveneau says Jev grades that suite and makes it run ten times faster than its previous grader did. It says it uses AI in place of hiring more engineers and puts that saving into its clients' prices, and that it takes responsibility for the whole project through production and after release. Anthropic's partner directory did not list Reveneau on 20 October 2026, when all 321 entries were searched [1].

Fluxon

Fluxon's careers page, read on 21 October 2026, listed roles located in Poland: Senior Product Designer, Senior Technical Project Manager, Senior QA Engineer, Staff Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer. It listed roles located in Portugal: Senior Product Designer and Senior Technical Project Manager [12]. The page says Fluxon is 100 percent remote, "Connected through local hubs, shared work, and time together in person." Its homepage shows a clock labelled WAW, the code for Warsaw's airport. No Fluxon page read for this guide names an office or a street address in either country, so this guide says Fluxon hires in Poland and Portugal. Forbes gives Fluxon 200 employees as of March 2026, and Fluxon's own careers page says "300+ builders", so the two counts disagree [13]. Its AI development page says its work is "Forward-deployed by default."

Firms with a base in Poland

Netguru, Poznań

Netguru gives its headquarters as Nowe Garbary Office Center, ul. Małe Garbary 9, Poznań. The Polish court register lists Netguru S.A. at the same street [2]. The pages read list no other Netguru office. Netguru's service page offers forward deployed AI engineers, one engineer placed inside the client's team, and says the work is billed on time and materials, meaning by the hours worked [3]. It offers full-time embedding, part-time advice of two to three days a week, and projects with a set scope.

10Clouds, Warsaw

10Clouds lists its office at Chmielna 73, Warsaw. The Polish court register and the Ministry of Finance's VAT register both give that address for 10Clouds Financial Institutions sp. z o.o. [4]. Its service pages offer forward deployed engineers who "embed with your team to deploy AI agents" [5], and its focus is banks, insurers and other financial companies.

STX Next, Poznań and Gliwice

STX Next lists its headquarters at ul. Mostowa 38, Poznań, which the court register confirms, and names an office in Gliwice [6]. It also names London, Eschborn in Germany, Houston and Merida. STX Next uses Forward Deployed Engineer as a job title for people who lead its discovery sessions with clients, and sells data, AI and cloud engineering.

Devoteam, Warsaw

Devoteam, whose head office is in the Paris area, lists a Warsaw office at Ludwika Waryńskiego 3a [7]. Its forward deployed page says its engineers sit inside the client's teams until someone on the client's side owns the result.

Grid Dynamics, four Polish cities

Grid Dynamics, a US company listed on the Nasdaq exchange, lists a Warsaw engineering center at Skyliner, ul. Prosta 67, and engineering centers in Krakow, Wroclaw and Gdansk, each with a street address [8]. Its homepage says its Forward Deployed Engineers work inside the client's team. It states that Beijing Teamsun, a Chinese company, owns 20.0 percent of its shares through a subsidiary, and it calls that figure approximate.

accilium, Warsaw

accilium, a consultancy with its headquarters in Vienna, names Warsaw among its seven offices, and a job ad describes the Warsaw office as recent [9]. It advertises Forward Deployed Engineer roles in Vienna, Berlin and Bucharest. The pages read give no Warsaw street address.

Firms with a base in Portugal

Twistag, Lisbon

Twistag lists its office at Av. Berna 30 2B, Lisbon [10]. It says it was founded in Lisbon in 2016 as a product studio and has 25+ engineers, designers, data and AI specialists. The question-and-answer data built into its about page says a typical engagement uses one or two forward deployed engineers who work inside the client's systems and team. Its homepage says every engagement ends with documentation, evaluations, runbooks and time with the client's engineers. A runbook is a written guide for running a system day to day. No Portuguese register entry for Twistag was opened for this guide. The data built into its web pages gives the legal name Twistag Sociedade Unipessoal Lda.

Devoteam, Lisbon and Porto

Devoteam lists a Lisbon office at Av. Dom João II 43 and also lists Porto on its offices page [7].

Tribe AI, Lisbon

Tribe AI, a US firm, lists Lisbon in its site footer beside New York and San Francisco, with no street address [11]. The office regions Tribe gave in Anthropic's directory list only the United States. TechCrunch reported in July 2024 that Tribe builds client projects with a network of over 500 contractors, so ask where the people on your project would live.

The local market for AI

Eurostat's figures show how much companies in each country used AI in 2025. In Poland, 8.36 percent of enterprises with 10 or more employees used at least one AI technology, one of the three lowest shares in the EU. In Portugal the share was 11.54 percent, against 19.95 percent for the EU as a whole [14]. These figures describe how much the companies in each country use AI themselves.

What this guide could not find

• No Portuguese register entry was opened for Twistag, so its address comes from its own site.
• No street address was published for accilium's Warsaw office or for Tribe AI's Lisbon office.
• No independent source confirmed any client named by Netguru, 10Clouds, STX Next or Twistag.
• No official pay figure for software developers in Poland or Portugal was among this guide's sources.

How to check a team in Poland or Portugal before you sign

1. Search the register. For a Polish company, the court register shows the legal name, the registered seat and the date of entry. Compare them with the firm's own site.
2. Ask which company signs. A firm based in one country may sign through a company in another.
3. Ask where each engineer lives. An office in Warsaw shows where some of a firm's staff work. Fluxon, for example, says it is fully remote.
4. Agree on working hours. Use the table above, and write the shared hours into the contract.
5. Agree on travel. Ask how often the engineers will come to your site, and who pays for flights and hotels.
6. Ask where your data will be kept. The questions to ask a European FDE firm list covers this in detail.

Which firm fits which buyer

If you want embedded engineers whose code is written by AI and tested against your specification before each release, and you can work with a team in North America, Reveneau says that is how it works. If you want a remote team that joins your channels and daily meetings, Fluxon describes that offer and hires in both countries. If you want one senior AI engineer billed by the hour from a Polish software company, Netguru offers that. If you are a bank or an insurer, 10Clouds focuses on financial companies. If you want a data and AI team with offices in Poland and London, STX Next has both. If you want a listed company with several Polish engineering centers, Grid Dynamics names four. If you want one or two engineers from a small Lisbon firm, Twistag describes that setup.

The full list of European FDE firms gives every entry. The guide to forward deployed engineering explains the role, and forward deployed engineer vs staff augmentation explains how this work differs from adding engineers who take tasks from your own leads. To discuss a project, contact Reveneau.