About
A software company started in Kyiv in 2006, with an office in the EU.
The engineering is Ukrainian. That is where the company grew up, where the technical schools are, and where most of the work still gets done. Hiring runs in both directions, Ukraine and the EU. Security and infrastructure are managed centrally, to the standards clients audit us against.
How it started
We started in Kyiv in 2006 as Softheme, a small group of friends from the engineering community writing software for clients abroad. The name stuck for thirteen years.
By 2019 it no longer described us. Most of the team were graduates of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, the stack list was long, and the work was serious. We renamed the company Polytech Software, and a few years later opened a second entity in Budapest for clients and colleagues in the EU.
How we are organised
Management is flat. Several of us hold director titles, with overlapping responsibilities and shared decisions. Vadym Sharko runs the company and client relationships. Iryna Tsulaia handles operations, contracts, and client coordination. Andriy Kedrov leads technology and architecture, with C#/.NET and C++ at the core. Volodymyr Gubanovych heads the Salesforce practice. Marat Nurgudin is responsible for QA and the delivery infrastructure behind every project. Tetiana Borova leads talent operations. Olga Sabokar is dedicated center lead and project lead.
When you write to any of us, you are talking to the company. Contracts are reviewed in days, not weeks, and there is no internal layer between you and the engineers doing the work.
How the work actually runs
Inside the company.
The company came out of a well-equipped office in Kyiv and moved fully remote. It added drive rather than took it away. Equipment, communication tools, and software follow a single standard.
Internally, ideas get traded between teams and new skills get passed on, through presentations, shared learning sessions, and steady knowledge transfer between projects.
What we believe, in practice
Four things that show up in how we actually work, not just on a values page.
01 — Long over loud
We do not chase logos. The clients we are proud of are the ones who came in for a six-month project and stayed for seven years. We optimise for that, sometimes at the cost of quarter-to-quarter growth.
02 — Boring is good
The best compliment a client gives us is that they stopped thinking about whether the team is going to deliver. Predictability is a feature. We work hard to be the unexciting part of your operation.
03 — Pay people well, keep them
Engineers leave when they feel like a line item. We try not to make them feel that way. The result is retention numbers that make our hiring math actually work, year over year.
04 — Tell the truth on the call
If your project would be better done by someone else, we will tell you. If a deadline is unrealistic, we will say so before we sign. This costs us deals occasionally. It also explains the seven-year average.
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