Software development company in Australia
Avaib is a software development company for Australia, delivering custom software for Australian startups, scale-ups and established businesses since 2004. Senior specialists only, real overlap with your working day, and code you own, at a fraction of local rates.
Delivering for teams across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the rest of Australia.
Built for Australian businesses
A software development company builds and looks after the custom software your business runs on, the web apps, mobile apps and internal systems, so you get a full development capability without having to hire and manage one yourself.
In Australia that has become genuinely hard. The senior developers you need are scarce, local salaries have pushed past $150,000 a year, agencies bill well over a hundred dollars an hour, and filling a single role can take months. Good software is still what moves your business forward, but the cost and the wait have both climbed.
Avaib gives Australian businesses another way: a senior offshore team that works like an extension of your own. The same enterprise-grade quality a local agency offers, delivered at a cost-effective rate, with real overlap into your working day and code that stays yours.
Stuck between a local agency you cannot afford and offshore you are not sure you can trust? That is exactly the conversation we are set up to have.
Get a free quoteWhy building here is hard right now
Three forces are making it harder and more expensive to build software in Australia than it has been in years. This is the pressure most teams are feeling, and where a senior offshore team helps.
The Australian Computer Society has flagged a shortage of tens of thousands of technology professionals, with demand still climbing. The senior developers you need are scarce, and everyone is chasing the same small pool.
A senior developer in Sydney or Melbourne now costs well over $150,000 a year once superannuation and on-costs are counted, and local agencies bill $120 to $180 an hour. Good engineering has become genuinely expensive to hold onto.
Filling a single senior role locally can take three to six months, if you land the person at all. That is time your roadmap sits still while competitors keep shipping.
None of this means shipping less software. It means finding senior capacity that does not depend on winning a scarce local hire or carrying a local agency rate, and that is exactly what a senior offshore team is for.
Your real options
When you need senior engineering in Australia, these are the choices in front of you. Here is the trade-off with each, and where Avaib fits.
You carry the full salary, superannuation, payroll tax and management, and you still have to find the person in a market that is short tens of thousands of them.
Local accountability and easy calls, but at a rate that burns a startup or growing budget quickly. A six-month build can run into the hundreds of thousands.
The rate that looks unbeatable is where most Australian businesses get burned: juniors instead of the seniors promised, blown timelines, and a build a local team then has to rescue at twice the cost.
Enterprise-grade quality at an offshore rate: senior specialists only, a dedicated QA department, real overlap with your Australian working day, and code you own outright. The value of offshore without the usual gamble.
Want an honest read on which of these actually fits your project and budget?
Get a free quoteThe questions Australian buyers ask
Before signing with an offshore team, Australian businesses ask us the same handful of questions. Here are honest answers to each.
You deal with one accountable team that owns the outcome, not a maze of project managers. The senior people who pitch are the people who build, so there is always someone who knows your project and answers for it.
Yes. You own the code, the data and the documentation outright, with full repository and admin access and no SaaS lock-in. Confidentiality and access are handled properly from day one, so nothing about your product is hostage to us.
Our around-the-clock teams are set up so there is genuine overlap with the Australian business day, for live calls and same-day answers. Urgent questions are picked up quickly, not left to sit overnight.
Every project runs in clear, professional English with written scopes, regular updates and demos. You always know what is being built, what it costs and where it stands, without chasing anyone for it.
Because the difference is the model. Senior specialists only, one accountable team, a dedicated QA department testing every build, a 30-day warranty and a team that stays on the product. If you have inherited a messy build, we will assess it honestly and set out the options.
Why Avaib
Plenty of teams can offer an offshore rate. Fewer can pair it with senior people, clear communication into your day and a team that stays. Our model is built to bring all three.
Avaib has built custom software since 2004, with 600+ projects delivered and 80%+ client retention. The experience an Australian business needs is already proven, with 10+ written references you can check.
No junior bait-and-switch. The engineers who build your software are experienced specialists in their field, backed by a dedicated QA department and a 30-day post-launch warranty.
Around-the-clock teams set up so there is genuine overlap with your working hours, and one accountable contact in clear English, so an offshore team works like an extension of your own.
Senior engineers from around USD 25 per hour, the same capability local Australian firms charge $120 to $180 an hour for, at a fraction of the cost, so the quality is enterprise-grade and the price is not.
Our senior engineers use advanced AI coding tools in a disciplined way to move through the build faster, steering and reviewing every step, so your software ships sooner without cutting corners on quality.
The code, data and documentation stay yours throughout. There is never a hostage situation and never a reason to stay except that the work keeps delivering.
Want senior engineering for your Australian business without the local price tag or the offshore gamble?
Get a free quoteHow we work
Understand what you need, assemble the right senior team, agree a clear plan, build and test in provable steps, then launch, warrant and support.
We start with what your software has to do, who will use it and what it connects to, in a plain-English conversation set around your Australian working hours, and send a free, no-obligation written estimate.
We staff your project with senior specialists in the technologies it needs, as a dedicated team with one accountable contact and clear communication into your day.
You get a plain-English scope with defined outcomes and a fixed quote, so you know exactly what will be built, in what order and at what cost before any development begins.
We build in slices, each tested by our dedicated QA department and shown to you in regular demos, so you see working software early and problems are caught before they reach users.
We help you roll the software out, back it with a 30-day warranty and beyond, and stay on to extend it as your needs change, on a foundation and a team that remain yours.
Pricing
Senior engineers from around USD 25 per hour, the same capability local Australian firms charge $120 to $180 an hour for, at a fraction of the price. We scope the work clearly up front so you get a fixed, plain-English quote, and every engagement leaves you owning your code, data and documentation outright.
For a clearly scoped piece of software, we agree the scope and the price up front, then deliver and test it against your real requirements, so there are no open-ended surprises.
A senior team that works as an extension of yours, that you can scale up or down as priorities shift, giving you real engineering capacity without local salaries or the long local hiring cycle.
Senior specialists who plug into your existing Australian team to add the skills or capacity you are missing, working to your process and tools rather than replacing them.
Every engagement is delivered by senior specialists under one accountable team, tested by a dedicated QA department, backed by a 30-day warranty, and you keep the code, data and documentation with no lock-in. Tell us what you are building and we will send you a free, no-obligation written estimate with a clear scope.
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Whether you are a startup stretching a budget, a scale-up hiring against a thin talent pool, or an established business modernising, here is the kind of team Avaib fits, and the problem we usually solve for each.
In our clients' words
Rated 4.5/5 on Google and 5/5 across other platforms, with 10+ written references and 80%+ client retention.
"We have dealt with Avaib as our sole software provider for over 9 years now with very few issues. I would recommend their services anytime."
"Avaib understood our needs and have been catering customised solutions that have exceeded our expectations."
"Round-the-clock availability of business managers and IT teams is one of Avaib's greatest assets. They have always surpassed my expectations. I highly recommend Avaib to everyone."
Common questions
A software development company builds and maintains custom software for a business: web applications, mobile apps, SaaS products, internal systems and the integrations between them. It provides the full capability, developers, testers, designers and project management, so you do not have to hire and manage all of that yourself.
Avaib is a software development company that serves Australia as a senior offshore team. You get the same capability an Australian agency offers, senior specialists, a dedicated QA department, clear communication and code you own, delivered at a cost-effective rate and with genuine overlap into your working day.
Locally it is expensive: a senior developer costs well over $150,000 a year once on-costs are counted, and Australian agencies bill $120 to $180 an hour. For a six-month build the gap between local and senior offshore can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Avaib's senior engineers work at a cost-effective rate of around USD 25 per hour, the same capability at a fraction of the local price, and AI-accelerated delivery helps get you there faster. We scope the work clearly up front and send a free, no-obligation written estimate, so there are no open-ended surprises.
We run around-the-clock teams set up so there is genuine overlap with the Australian business day, for live calls and same-day answers. You deal with one accountable contact in clear, professional English, not a stack of project managers that turns a quick question into a multi-day wait.
You get written scopes, regular updates and demos throughout, so you always know what is being built and where it stands. Urgent requests are picked up quickly rather than left overnight.
Yes. You own the code, the data and the documentation outright, with full repository and admin access and no SaaS lock-in. The software you pay for is yours to run, extend or move to another team whenever you choose.
Confidentiality and access controls are handled properly from the start, with the right safeguards for your project, so your intellectual property is protected throughout.
It does not have to be. The poor quality people associate with offshore usually comes from a broken buying model, choosing the cheapest quote and landing on junior developers juggling several clients, rather than from where the work is done. Senior offshore specialists build to the same standard as any Australian agency.
Avaib staffs senior engineers only, with a dedicated QA department testing every build and a 30-day post-launch warranty. Across 600+ projects and 80%+ client retention, the quality is why clients stay, some for close to a decade.
Many of our clients came to us after exactly that: juniors instead of the seniors they were promised, communication that broke down, and a vendor that went quiet after launch. The difference is the model, senior specialists only, one accountable team, real overlap with your day and a team that stays.
You also keep the code and documentation throughout, so you are never locked in. If you have inherited a messy or half-finished build, we can assess it, tell you honestly where it stands and set out the options.
Tell us what you are building on the quote form and we will set up a short, plain-English conversation around your working hours. From there we send a free, no-obligation written estimate with a clear scope and a fixed price, so you can decide with the full picture in front of you.
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