TechHub Vietnam
IT Staffing & Workforce Solutions in Vietnam
Staff augmentation, headhunting, RPO, Employer of Record, payroll, HR outsourcing and BOT/ODC — one accountable partner for hiring, paying and scaling technical teams in Vietnam.
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In short
IT staffing and workforce solutions cover every way of putting technical people to work for you in a country where you may have no legal presence: temporary augmentation, permanent recruitment, compliant employment, payroll and HR administration, and building a centre you eventually own.
What it is
What is it, and when does it make sense?
IT staffing and workforce solutions cover every way of putting technical people to work for you in a country where you may have no legal presence: temporary augmentation, permanent recruitment, compliant employment, payroll and HR administration, and building a centre you eventually own.
Most companies discover they need more than one of these. A team might start with two augmented engineers, add a permanent lead through headhunting, employ them compliantly through an Employer of Record, and eventually convert the whole operation into an owned entity via Build-Operate-Transfer. Running those stages through one partner avoids the seams — and the compliance gaps — that appear when each is contracted separately.
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Which workforce service do you need?
Each service has a dedicated page explaining scope, process, compliance and commercial model.
Coverage
What does TechHub handle for you?
One partner across sourcing, employment and delivery.
Sourcing & vetting
Market mapping, direct approach and a five-step technical screen with a 3% acceptance rate.
Compliant employment
Vietnamese contracts, Employer of Record arrangements and lawful onboarding and exit.
Payroll & benefits
Monthly payroll, personal income tax filing and statutory insurance administration.
HR operations
Policies, employee relations and records that stand up to audit and due diligence.
Delivery management
Local leadership, KPIs and transparent reporting on the work itself.
Long-term structures
Offshore development centres and Build-Operate-Transfer programmes you can eventually own.
Which technologies can you cover?
Our 200+ engineers cover more than 100 technologies. If a stack is missing, we recruit for it — most specialised roles are filled within two to three weeks.
Use cases
When do companies come to us?
Clients arrive with a small number of recognisable situations. The list below reflects what we are asked for most often across 300+ delivered projects — and each one implies a different team shape.
- Hiring in Vietnam without a legal entity
- Scaling hiring in short bursts
- Payroll and HR that must stay compliant
- Building a centre you will eventually own
- Filling roles that have been open for months
Engagement
Which engagement model should you choose?
Most clients start with one model and evolve. The decision usually comes down to two questions: who owns day-to-day management, and how long you need the capacity. We will tell you when a smaller engagement is the right answer.
- Need specific skills fast, keep control → staff augmentation
- Need a managed unit for a long roadmap → dedicated team
- Want a local presence you eventually own → BOT / ODC
Staff augmentation
Individual engineers join your existing team, under your management and inside your process. Best when you know what to build and need specific skills or extra capacity.
Commercial model: Monthly, per engineer
Dedicated team
A complete team — engineers, QA and a delivery lead — works exclusively on your product, managed by TechHub to your standards. Best for sustained roadmaps and several workstreams at once.
Commercial model: Monthly, per team
Build-Operate-Transfer / ODC
We build and run a dedicated centre in Vietnam, then transfer it into your ownership once it is stable. Best when you want a permanent local presence without running market entry yourself.
Commercial model: Phased, by agreement
Process
How does working with TechHub start?
Most engagements move from first call to working team in about two weeks.
- Discovery callWe map goals, constraints, timeline and budget, then recommend a model — including telling you when a smaller engagement is the right answer.
- Role profiles & shortlistAgreed profiles turn into shortlists of pre-vetted candidates within 48 hours.
- Interviews & selectionYou assess and select every person. We handle scheduling and feedback.
- Contracting & onboardingEmployment, compliance, security and tooling are set up so the team is productive in about a week.
- Delivery & reviewRegular reporting, retention management and scope adjustment as your roadmap changes.
Process
What happens in the first 30 days?
Speed only matters if the engineer becomes productive. This is the ramp plan we run on every engagement.
- Days 1–2 — access and contextAccounts, repositories, environments and security briefing. The engineer reads your architecture notes and meets the people they will work with.
- Days 3–5 — first contributionA small, real ticket goes through your full review and release process, so integration problems surface immediately rather than in week four.
- Week 2 — full sprint participationThe engineer takes normal sprint load, joins ceremonies and starts contributing to estimates and technical discussion.
- Week 3–4 — ownershipThey own a feature area end to end. We hold a 30-day review with you covering delivery, communication and fit — with a free replacement if anything is off.
Quality
How do you vet engineers before we see them?
Roughly three per cent of applicants join the TechHub pool. The screen is deliberately expensive to pass, because the cost of a wrong hire lands on your roadmap rather than ours.
- CV and experience verificationReal project history, references and employment checks — not keyword matching.
- Live technical assessmentWorking code under observation, in the stack the role actually requires.
- System design discussionTrade-off reasoning, not memorised patterns.
- English and communication interviewB2–C1 level so the engineer works with your team, not through a translator.
- Reliability and reference checkDelivery track record, ownership and how they behave when something goes wrong.
Which industries have you delivered in?
Domain familiarity shortens ramp-up: engineers who have already handled payment reconciliation, clinical data or logistics tracking do not need six weeks to understand your constraints. Across 300+ projects we have worked in:
Commercials
How is pricing structured, and what is included?
Pricing is quoted per engagement rather than published as a single rate, because seniority, stack and duration move the number significantly. What matters commercially is that our quotes are all-in: sourcing, five-step vetting, employment contracts, payroll, personal income tax, statutory insurance, workspace, equipment and delivery management are already included. There is no separate recruitment fee and no hidden employer-cost surprise.
For budgeting, most clients compare our all-in monthly cost against the fully loaded cost of a local hire — salary plus employer contributions, recruitment fees, equipment, workspace, management overhead and the two-to-three-month vacancy before anyone starts. On that basis, senior engineering capacity in Vietnam is consistently the more efficient option, which is why clients keep teams with us for years rather than months.
Contracts run monthly with an agreed notice period, so you can scale down without a redundancy process. You receive a written quote against your specific role profile before committing to anything.
Security & compliance
How do you protect our code, data and IP?
Every engagement runs under an information-security management system aligned to ISO/IEC 27001, with quality processes certified to ISO 9001. In practice that means role-based access to repositories and environments, device and password policy, segregated networks in our Hanoi centre, logged access to production data and a documented offboarding checklist so credentials do not outlive an engagement.
Contractually, intellectual property in everything we build is assigned to your company, NDAs cover every individual on the engagement, and we can sign your own security addendum or data-processing agreement. Clients in fintech, healthcare and insurance have taken our teams through their own vendor security reviews.
If your compliance team needs evidence, we provide certification documentation, policy summaries and named points of contact rather than generic assurances.
Why it works
Why do companies outsource engineering?
Recruiting a senior engineer in the US or Western Europe typically takes two to three months and commits you to fixed cost long after the project that justified it. Outsourcing to a vetted partner converts that into flexible capacity: you add proven engineers in days, scale down without a redundancy process, and keep your own team focused on product and customers.
Outsourcing (Wikipedia) and Offshoring (Wikipedia) are now standard operating models for software companies rather than cost-cutting measures of last resort. The decisive factor is not the hourly rate but whether the partner stays accountable for quality and retention once the contract is signed.
Location
Why Vietnam, and why Hanoi specifically?
Vietnam is one of Asia’s fastest-growing technology economies (World Bank — Vietnam), producing a large annual cohort of STEM graduates with strong engineering fundamentals and improving English. Senior engineering costs run substantially below US and Western European levels for comparable seniority.
Working hours overlap with both APAC business hours and European mornings, so you get real-time collaboration rather than overnight hand-offs. Hanoi in particular concentrates universities, technology parks and a mature IT services sector, which is why our 200+ engineers are based there.
Why us
Why choose TechHub as your engineering partner?
We have spent 10+ years building software and technical teams from Hanoi, delivering 300+ projects for clients in 12 countries with a 90% client satisfaction rate. Every engineer passes a five-step screen with a 3% acceptance rate.
Delivery runs under ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certified processes, with NDAs and full intellectual-property assignment as standard. Crucially, we stay accountable after the placement: we manage retention, replace poor fits at our cost during the trial period, and report on delivery rather than disappearing once an engineer starts.
That combination — senior talent, compliant employment and ongoing delivery ownership — is what separates a long-term engineering partner from a CV-forwarding agency.
Track record
What results have clients seen?
“The team used React Native to build iOS and Android apps for a real-estate platform, integrating our backend and property search. Proactive communication, flexibility and technical expertise stood out.”
“They followed a structured Agile approach with clearly defined milestones, integrating our logistics platform with third-party providers and building a real-time tracking dashboard.”
“They were not just executing tasks but were genuinely invested in the product’s success — UI/UX, front-end, back-end and payment integration for a marketplace MVP.”
Outcomes are drawn from verified client engagements; average rating 4.9/5 across independent B2B review platforms.
Our people
Who will actually be working on your product?
Engineers stay with us for years, and that continuity is what protects your institutional knowledge. Our teams run internal workshops, speak at developer events such as Vietnam Mobile Day, and have hosted community meetups in Hanoi — the same people you interview are the ones who ship your product.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What are IT staffing and workforce solutions?
IT staffing and workforce solutions cover every way of putting technical people to work for you in a country where you may have no legal presence: temporary augmentation, permanent recruitment, compliant employment, payroll and HR administration, and building a centre you eventually own.
What is the difference between staff augmentation and an Employer of Record?
Staff augmentation adds engineers to your team for a defined period, usually billed monthly per engineer. An Employer of record (Wikipedia) is a legal employment arrangement: TechHub becomes the legal employer of people you select and direct, so you can employ staff in Vietnam without your own entity. Many clients use both — augmentation for flexible capacity, EOR for permanent hires.
Do we need a legal entity in Vietnam?
No. Under an Employer of Record arrangement TechHub is the legal employer, which removes the need to incorporate. If you later want your own entity, a Build-Operate-Transfer programme can move the team across on agreed terms.
How fast can we hire in Vietnam?
Shortlists within 48 hours, onboarding in about a week. Compliance setup runs in parallel rather than sequentially, which is what makes that timeline realistic.
How do you handle payroll, tax and insurance?
We process monthly payroll, withhold and file personal income tax, and administer social, health and unemployment insurance contributions on the statutory calendar, keeping audit-ready records.
What is Build-Operate-Transfer?
Build–operate–transfer (Wikipedia) is a phased model: we build a team or centre, operate it to agreed KPIs, then transfer people, processes and assets into your ownership at a pre-agreed point — giving you speed now and ownership later.
How is our intellectual property protected?
IP is assigned to your company contractually, NDAs cover every person on the engagement, and access is controlled under our ISO/IEC 27001-aligned information-security management system.
Why choose TechHub?
10+ years operating from Hanoi with 200+ engineers, 300+ projects delivered across 12 countries, 90% client satisfaction, and ISO 9001:2015 / ISO 27001:2013 certification. One partner covers sourcing, employment, payroll, HR and delivery, so responsibilities do not fall between vendors.
Ready to build your team?
Tell us the roles you need. We shortlist pre-vetted candidates within 48 hours and your engineers can start within about a week. No commitment, reply within 24 hours, NDA on request.