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Contact Us +1.866.991.6883 Who We Are Our Team How We Engage Blog Contact Us -- Who We Are Our Team How We Engage Blog Contact Us America’s best software engineers on-demand at an affordable price | Hire a Developer | Join the Team The Surge Difference 100% On shore Benefits include high quality code, great communication, time zone compatability, productivity, and self sufficiency. On Demand Expertise Why wait 60-90 days to find a senior software engineer when Surge can provide the best onshore talent in 1-2 weeks. Full “AGILE-Scrum” Not just great developers but we also offer full scrum teams that include ui/ux designers, business analysts, qa/testers (manual and automated), devops, db admins, and certified scrum masters. Deep Bench We have over 300 senior software professionals who can tackle even the largest, most complex projects. 30-50% Less Expensive Thanks to our lean operations and onshore remote model you get senior software professionals at a significant discount over our competitors. Top 2% of Software Engineers We have incredibly high standards. Our proprietary hiring process means that only 2% pass our rigorous evaluation and live coding process. Hiring great engineers is expensive and time consuming; let Surge do it for you. White Glove Treatment No automated matching here; Surge hand-selects your team based on skills, industry experience, availability, etc. and the provides certified project managers to oversee engagement. Who We Are Surge is an onshore provider of custom web, cloud, mobile, digital, and desktop software development and consulting services to clients in every industry, from hot startups to Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2007, and listed on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies for six straight years, Surge has successfully delivered hundreds of software products, apps, and solutions to its clients using a proven agile/scrum development process combined with an elite group of North American software professionals. Simply put, Surge offers America’s best software engineers, on demand, at rates 30-50% less than the competition. Surge Value Proposition 11 Years of Experience 1,000 Products Completed 300 Available Developers Learn more about our capabilites UI/UX Design Coding/Programming QA/Automated Testing Agile Project Management Devops Database Administration How We Engage Staff Augmentation New Project 1. Demand Based, Friendly Contract 2. Tell Us Your Staffing Needs 3. We Select the “Best Fit” Candidates 4. You Review and Approve Each Candidate 5. We Augment Your Staff with Senior Onshore Professionals 6. Ramp Up or Down Based on Your Needs 1. We engage in a 200 hour “design phase” 2. Confirm scope, create user stories & design assets 3. Upon completion, start dev phase (with approval) 4. We staff a full agile project team 5. We build, test, and deliver the final product 6. We support and host your product Our Work Risk Management and Marketing Intelligence Application Marketing Retail Custom Kiosk Retail Complete Patient Electronic Medical Reporting (EMR) Application Medical Web-based Content Marketing System Marketing See More Of Our Work > What People Are Saying Ted Bendixon June 21st, 2018 Friendly and chill team to work with. Developers are top-notch, fun to talk to, and don’t take themselves too seriously. You’ll definitely work a full-time week, and if you want to do more, you can. You are encouraged to keep your own hours and manage your time yourself. You’ll never be told which hours to work. There’s just an expectation that you’ll contribute and be there when your team really needs you. Great pay, professional culture, enjoyable conversations, remote. What more could you want? View all Reviews > Recent News RetrainAmerica Launches National Retraining and Employment Exchange 7 May 2020 Erik Smith National Exchange Powered by Surge’s Parent Company Catalyte Catalyte, Surge’s parent company, has launched RetrainAmerica to connect anyone – regardless of background, education or prior experience – with an opportunity to get retrained for jobs of the future. Individuals looking for training opportunities, or organizations looking to join RetrainAmerica, can find more information here or at www.RetrainAmerica.com. RetrainAmerica Partners Mindgrub – Providing digital marketing services for RetrainAmerica launch City of Baltimore Carefirst Exelon (BGE, BGE Home, DPL and Pepco) Baltimore Corps Brown Advisory Protenus Fearless Traitify GRIMM Media Coverage Baltimore Business Journal Read More CASE STUDY – CompTIA 23 April 2020 Erik Smith Surge developed critical platforms supporting CompTIA’s core revenue and business The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the world’s largest vendor-neutral IT certification program, is a technology industry trade association that offers technical education and online certification exams. To deliver its certification exams in a more efficient, streamlined and user-friendly manner, CompTIA needed to build its own secure, proprietary exam administration and simulation tools. And it needed to move development onshore without a substantial increase in budget. Surge provided the onshore, senior engineering talent CompTIA needed to build these tools. Surge was able to do this at a fraction of the… Read More Successful Remote Onboarding in Any Business Climate 31 March 2020 David Bernal Successful onboarding is challenging when it’s done in person. It becomes exponentially more difficult when the new teammate is remote. Successful remote onboarding requires a structured approach. We’ve created a recipe that works at Surge and Catalyte that has helped us grow from 40 people to more than 700 in six offices, with a network of hundreds of fully remote software engineers. Our contractors routinely onboard and roll off from projects as remote technical specialists. Having proven remote onboarding strategies helps increase the rate of initial productivity in any business environment, allows engineers to focus on building software, enables HR… Read More Maintaining Company Culture with Remote Workforces 18 March 2020 Erik Smith A remote workforce has advantages for talent selection (no geographic restrictions), productivity (work from anywhere) and reduced overhead (no office space). But maintaining a cohesive company culture with a remote workforce can be more difficult with the lack of in-person interaction, need to build trust at a distance, communications challenges and absentee managers. Tom Iler, Chief Product Officer for Surge and Catalyte, shares advice on how to maintain a cohesive company culture regardless of where your workers are located. In this podcast he discusses: Building trust, on both employer and employee side Monitoring outcomes, not activities Having the right tools… Read More Three Quick Remote Working Tips 16 March 2020 Erik Smith COVID-19 has thrust all of us into uncharted territory. Many businesses are following the advice of public health officials and having their entire workforces operate remotely. Some for the first time. This can be a difficult transition. From technologies, to corporate and interpersonal communications, remote working has its challenges. Surge has navigated these challenges for over a decade. Here are a few quick and easy pointers to make this transition easier. Treat All Workers the Same Never treat remote and office-based developers differently. There should be the same accountability, same hours and the same oversight for remote and in-office workers.… Read More Is Software Design Dead? 3 February 2020 Erik Smith The typical American today is born into technology. A handheld or laptop is ubiquitous even in junior high school. As the connected generation matures, the idea that we need professionals to tell us how an application should work may seem like an unnecessary expense. However, there is an incredible gap between what an application should do and how it should do it. Every custom applicati...