Companies in Lisbon, Portugal that want to employ engineering talent in India without opening a local entity can use Pitch N Hire as their Employer of Record. PNH legally employs each hire on your behalf and manages payroll, tax, benefits and statutory compliance, so a Lisbon business can build a compliant offshore team quickly and focus on the work rather than the paperwork.
An Employer of Record (EOR) is a company that legally employs workers on your behalf in a country where you have no entity, taking on payroll, tax withholding, benefits, contracts and statutory compliance while the worker delivers under your day-to-day direction. Pitch N Hire's EOR strength is India: it lets a business anywhere hire and retain Indian engineering talent compliantly — with correct employment contracts, payroll and provident-fund/tax handling — without registering an Indian subsidiary. This removes the cost, delay and legal risk of setting up a foreign entity, and pairs naturally with staff augmentation when you want PNH to both source and employ your offshore team.
You identify the person you want to employ in India — either someone Pitch N Hire sourced for you, or a candidate you found yourself who you want employed compliantly.
PNH issues a locally-compliant Indian employment contract with the correct terms, benefits and statutory entitlements, so the engagement is legally sound from day one.
The employee is onboarded onto PNH's Indian payroll, with tax, provident fund and benefits configured correctly — no Indian entity or local finance function needed on your side.
The employee works under your day-to-day direction, in your tools and process, while PNH remains the legal employer of record for compliance purposes.
PNH runs monthly payroll, tax filings, statutory contributions and HR administration, and keeps everything compliant as regulations change — you get a report, not a paperwork burden.
As your Employer of Record in India, Pitch N Hire takes on the full employment burden:
Lisbon is Portugal's economic and startup capital and one of Europe's hottest nearshore destinations, home to a wave of international engineering offices, unicorns and scale-ups drawn by talent, lifestyle and lower costs than London or Berlin. Hosting the Web Summit each year has cemented its profile, and rapid inbound relocation has tightened the market for experienced software, product and data engineers across fintech, SaaS and travel-tech.
Lisbon talent is highly international and English-fluent, strong in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, cloud and product engineering, fed by universities and a large influx of relocating professionals. The pool is deep for a city its size, but heavy competition from foreign employers has pushed up senior salaries and made experienced hires slower to secure — a common reason Lisbon teams add offshore capacity.
Lisbon commands Portugal's highest developer pay, though still well below London or Dublin — senior software engineers often in the region of €45k–€70k gross, with premiums for cloud, data and AI skills. Offshore augmentation from India typically delivers comparable seniority at a lower blended rate, which is why cost-conscious Lisbon scale-ups run hybrid local plus offshore teams.
For Lisbon founders and engineering leaders competing with well-funded international offices, PNH offers an offshore pod: vetted India-based engineers employed through an Employer of Record, overlapping several working hours with Lisbon's WET/WEST time, to add delivery capacity quickly without bidding against relocated talent or setting up a new entity.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Lisbon team's stage and workload — and mix them as you scale:
A pre-screened India talent pool means matched shortlists in days, not the months a local permanent hire can take.
You interview and choose every person; Pitch N Hire surfaces qualified candidates and handles the operational load.
Offshore hires are employed through PNH's India Employer of Record — payroll, tax and statutory compliance are taken care of.
Building part of your team offshore keeps comparable seniority on the roster at a lower total cost than local-only hiring.
Engineers work on overlapping working hours and inside your tools and sprints — collaboration, not black-box outsourcing.
Staffing, recruitment, EOR and the ATS/interview software come from one provider, so hiring stays joined-up as you scale.
Staffing and recruitment services, the applicant tracking software, and hiring resources — all in one place.
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