Software & Mobile App Development Company in Israel
Extra engineering capacity for Israeli startups and scale-ups: mobile, SaaS and AI development with Hebrew RTL support, privacy-law awareness and a Sunday-to-Thursday rhythm.
- NDA & full IP ownership
- Senior engineers
- Working hours that overlap with Israel
Israel does not lack engineering talent; it lacks enough of it. Startups in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa compete with multinational R&D centres for the same developers, and senior salaries reflect that. Sigmato is a software development company that works with Israel’s product teams as an extension of their own engineers. We take on mobile apps, front-end work, integrations, QA automation and MVPs so your core team can stay focused on the deep technology that makes your company valuable.
Where an External Team Adds Most Value
The short answer: on work that is important but not your core IP. Israeli companies usually keep algorithms, security research and architecture decisions in-house, and hand a partner the surrounding product surface. Typical engagements look like this:
- Customer-facing apps for a B2B platform: React Native or native iOS and Android apps that sit on top of your existing APIs.
- Dashboards and admin consoles for cyber, fintech or health-tech products, built with React, TypeScript and a design system your team can maintain.
- Integration layers: connectors to Salesforce, HubSpot, ERP systems and cloud marketplaces, usually in NestJS or Python.
- AI product features: retrieval-augmented assistants, document extraction and evaluation pipelines through our AI development team.
- Staff augmentation: one to five dedicated engineers who join your stand-ups and code review, billed monthly.
Not sure which model fits? Our comparison of staff augmentation versus outsourcing sets out the trade-offs.
Israeli Privacy Law and Security Expectations
Israel’s Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981, was substantially strengthened by Amendment 13, which took effect in August 2025 and gave the Privacy Protection Authority wider enforcement powers and larger penalties. Alongside it, the Privacy Protection (Data Security) Regulations of 2017 require organisations to classify databases by security level and apply matching controls. We take these into account in design and delivery:
- Role-based access, logging and encryption suited to the security level of each database you hold.
- Development and staging environments that use synthetic or masked data, so our engineers never need production records.
- Because Israel is recognised by the European Commission as providing adequate protection, many Israeli SaaS firms also serve EU customers; we design consent and data-subject request flows that satisfy GDPR at the same time.
- Web accessibility aligned with Israeli Standard SI 5568, which is based on the W3C WCAG guidelines; Israeli law requires many public-facing services to meet it.
Hebrew, Arabic and Russian: Localising for Israeli Users
Most consumer products in Israel need Hebrew right-to-left support as a minimum, and many also need Arabic, Russian and English. Bidirectional text is the hard part: a Hebrew sentence that contains an English product name, a phone number or a price in shekels (ILS) must render correctly in both directions. We test these mixed strings explicitly, mirror layouts with logical CSS properties, and keep translations in a format your localisation team can update without a release.
Some details are distinctly local. Calendar features often need Hebrew dates and Jewish holidays, and booking or delivery apps may need to respect Shabbat. Checkout flows should support paying in instalments (tashlumim), which Israeli card holders expect on larger purchases. For peer-to-peer and small-merchant payments, Bit and PayBox are household names, and Israeli-issued cards run through local acquirers alongside Apple Pay and Google Pay. Where payments are regulated, the Bank of Israel and the Israel Securities Authority set the rules your licensed provider follows.
A Sunday-to-Thursday Working Week
Israel Standard Time is UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer, so Bengaluru is three and a half or two and a half hours ahead. That gives a long shared window from your morning until mid-afternoon. Many Israeli teams work Sunday to Thursday, while our engineers work Monday to Friday; we cover Sundays with an on-call contact for urgent issues and schedule planning on the four overlapping days. Our UK branch, one to two hours behind Tel Aviv, can host workshops for stakeholders in Europe.
Sectors We Know
We work best with Israeli companies in B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech and insurtech, digital health, agritech and mobility. The Israel Innovation Authority funds R&D in many of these areas; if your grant terms restrict where know-how is developed, we structure the engagement so that funded core R&D stays with your Israeli team. For health products, our guide to AI in healthcare apps covers the technical side of compliance.
Indicative Costs
As a guide, a dedicated mid-to-senior engineer with us costs a fraction of a comparable hire in Tel Aviv. A focused mobile app MVP typically lands between $30,000 and $75,000, and a SaaS module or admin console between $15,000 and $50,000. These are indicative USD ranges; the final quote depends on scope, and we can show a shekel equivalent for your budget planning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why would an Israeli startup outsource development?
Mainly for speed and capacity. Hiring senior engineers locally can take months, while an external team can start within weeks on well-defined work such as apps, front-end and integrations.
Who owns the code and IP?
You do. We sign NDAs before technical discussions, assign all IP to your company in the contract and commit code to your repositories from day one. Our article on protecting IP when outsourcing explains the safeguards.
Can your developers handle Hebrew right-to-left interfaces?
Yes. We build RTL layouts natively rather than flipping an English design, and we test bidirectional text, number formatting and icons on real devices.
How do you handle Israel’s Sunday working day?
We agree a support arrangement for Sundays, usually an on-call contact plus asynchronous updates, and keep sprint ceremonies on Monday to Thursday.
Can you work alongside our reserve-duty absences?
Yes. When team members are called up for reserve duty, we can temporarily increase our share of the sprint, take over code reviews for agreed modules and keep releases on schedule until your people return.
Add Capacity to Your Israeli Team
Tell us what is on your roadmap and where you are short of hands. We will propose a team shape, a start date and a budget.