The maritime industry is building its digital layer. Maritime technology developers who can join a shipping line, a port technology vendor, or a maritime SaaS company and contribute from day one are not easy to find. We place senior engineers for maritime tech companies from a pre-vetted European network - your tools, your sprint, your process. Most engagements start within 2-4 weeks.
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We work with companies building and scaling maritime technology products: fleet management platforms, port operations software, vessel tracking and AIS systems, maritime compliance tools, and data intelligence products built on top of the shipping industry's operational data. Our clients include maritime SaaS companies scaling their maritime software development team past the founding team, shipping lines building in-house digital capability for the first time, port technology vendors adding port technology developers mid-roadmap, and maritime startups that need senior developers for maritime startups without a six-month hiring process. The engineering challenges we see repeatedly: legacy systems that weren't built to connect, maritime compliance software engineers who understand IMO, CII, and MARPOL at a systems level, data pipelines sitting unused on vessels generating petabytes of operational data that no one has turned into revenue yet, and product organisations that need maritime technology developers before the market window closes. We don't consult on your product strategy. We place the senior engineers who build it.
$2T+
Global maritime industry [VERIFY]
90%
of physical goods pass through maritime
500+
Pre-vetted engineers in our EU network
2-4 weeks
Median time to first engineer placed
Across fleet operations, port logistics, and maritime compliance, AI is moving from pilot to production. The constraint is no longer budget or intent - it's finding maritime technology developers with hands-on AI experience who understand the operational context well enough to build systems that work in real maritime environments. Devspace places maritime data platform engineers and AI-capable senior engineers into maritime teams - embedded in your process, not running a separate workstream.
AI-driven route optimisation, predictive maintenance from onboard sensor data, and fuel consumption forecasting are the three highest-ROI applications currently entering production across the maritime fleet. The common bottleneck is data pipeline quality - the models exist; the engineering to feed them reliably does not.
Where Devspace fits: We source data engineers and backend engineers with IoT and time-series data experience who can build the pipelines that make these systems reliable in production.
Tell us what you're building. We'll match you with senior maritime software engineers who've shipped in this space - typically within 2-4 weeks of your first call.
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Location
Norway
Industry
Healthcare
When Optimarin needed to leave their IoT platform vendor and build their own solution, Devspace built it. What started as a platform replacement became a multi-year embedded partnership spanning product development, strategic advisory, and a customer portal rebuild - with the same team present across every chapter.
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Stack-agnostic. From fleet management software developers and vessel tracking software engineers to maritime IoT software engineers and maritime data platform engineers - we match engineers to the stack and operational domain you already work in, not to a fixed bench. Senior by default. Every engineer is sourced specifically for your engagement, not assigned from a roster of available headcount. Role types we source most frequently for maritime clients: Backend engineers (Python, Go, Java, Node.js), Data and ML engineers, Cloud and DevOps engineers (AWS, GCP), IoT and embedded systems engineers, Frontend engineers (React, TypeScript), Full-stack engineers, QA and test automation engineers.
Your tools, your standups, your sprint. Our engineers join your team as a colleague who started last week - not a vendor running a parallel workstream. You stay in full control of how the work gets done.
Oslo sits at the centre of the world's densest maritime tech cluster. DNV, Kongsberg Digital, Wilhelmsen, and hundreds of Oslo maritime tech engineers and companies are within an hour of our office. That proximity is not a coincidence - it is why our network has the maritime domain depth it does.
9.3 years average experience [VERIFY]. 14:1 screening ratio. We turn down roughly 1 in 4 requests because the fit isn't right. Maritime companies building software for the first time are particularly exposed to junior-developer risk. We are not the cheapest option - we are the senior option.
We source for domain knowledge, not just technical seniority. Engineers in our network have shipped inside vessel monitoring systems, ballast water compliance platforms, fleet management tools, and port operations software. They understand the constraints before you brief them.
Tell us what you're building. We'll match you with senior engineers for maritime tech companies who've shipped in this space. Whether you need to scale your engineering team or add one specialist to a specific domain, most engagements start within 2-4 weeks of your first call.
Or email us directly at post@devspace.no to get a free consultation.