Software Development Company for Australia
Serious engineering for Australian businesses — at rates that leave budget for marketing the thing.
Australia’s tech boom outran its talent supply years ago: agencies in Sydney and Melbourne quote A$120–220 per hour, senior developers command A$150,000+ packages, and hiring timelines stretch past six months. StellarCode offers Australian startups and SMEs the pragmatic route: senior engineers at A$40–75 per hour equivalent, starting within two weeks, with your morning overlapping our working day for live collaboration.
We build for Australian business reality — Privacy Act and APP-aware data handling, Stripe and local payment flows with GST-correct invoicing, and products designed to serve customers across Australian time zones from Perth to Brisbane. The engagement style is direct and low-ceremony: fixed quotes, weekly demos, and engineers you talk to without an account-manager firewall.
Why businesses in Australia choose StellarCode
Sydney quality, not Sydney prices
A$40–75/hour against A$120–220/hour locally — typically a 55–70% saving on identical scope, delivered on fixed quotes so the budget conversation happens once.
Your morning is our workday
Sri Lanka runs 4.5–5.5 hours behind eastern Australia: your 9 AM–2 PM is our live morning. Standups and demos in your hours, then a second half-day of progress lands while you are offline.
Privacy Act-aware engineering
Australian Privacy Principles shape our data architecture for AU clients — collection minimisation, notifiable-breach-ready logging, and sensible data-residency choices in Australian cloud regions.
Built for the whole continent
Multi-time-zone scheduling, GST-compliant billing flows, Australian address and phone conventions, and integrations with the local rails your customers use — small details that make products feel domestic.
What the same project costs
| Senior development rate | Hourly range |
|---|---|
| Typical Australian agency rate | A$120 – A$220 / hour |
| StellarCode | A$40 – A$75 / hour |
Senior engineers with Australian-morning overlap and fixed quotes — typically 55–70% below Sydney/Melbourne agency pricing for the same scope.
Working hours that work
Sri Lanka is UTC+5:30 — 4.5 to 5.5 hours behind eastern Australia
Your 9 AM in Sydney is our early-to-mid morning: the entire Australian morning through early afternoon is live overlap for standups, demos and workshops, and our remaining day delivers work into your next morning.
Compliance & data protection
We engineer to the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles: data minimisation, consent and disclosure flows, notifiable data breach readiness, and hosting in Australian cloud regions where residency matters. Billing and checkout flows handle GST correctly, and for health-adjacent products we design with My Health Records-era sensitivity expectations in mind.
Industries we build for in Australia
- SaaS & startups
- Construction & trades tech
- Health & allied services
- Real estate & property management
- Mining services & logistics
- Tourism & hospitality
Working with clients around Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide — fully remote, in your hours.
Working with StellarCode from Australia — FAQ
How does the time zone work between Australia and Sri Lanka?
Better than most Australians expect. Sri Lanka is only 4.5–5.5 hours behind the east coast, so your whole morning — 9 AM to early afternoon — is live overlap with our team, ideal for standups and demos. After your day ends, ours continues, which means the fix you asked for at 4 PM Sydney time is usually deployed before your next morning coffee.
What do Australian businesses typically save?
For identical scope and seniority, usually 55–70%: A$40–75 per hour equivalent against the A$120–220 per hour common in Sydney and Melbourne, with fixed quotes rather than open-ended time-and-materials. A A$150,000 local proposal typically lands at A$45,000–A$65,000 with us — the difference funds the launch marketing most projects starve.
Can you host our data in Australia?
Yes — AWS and other providers run Sydney and Melbourne regions, and we host Australian clients’ production data there whenever residency or latency matters. Combined with Privacy Act-aligned architecture (APP-conscious collection, breach-ready logging, retention rules), your data story stays clean for enterprise customers and regulators alike.
Do you work with Australian startups or established businesses?
Both, in roughly equal measure. Startups come to us for MVPs and SaaS builds that stretch seed rounds further; established businesses — trades, logistics, health, property — come for custom systems and customer portals their local quotes made unaffordable. The process is the same: free consultation, fixed quote, weekly demos, code you own outright.
What we can build for you
Other markets we serve
Build with a team Australia can afford to iterate with
Free consultation in your business hours, a fixed transparent quote within days, and development starting within one to two weeks.
Free consultation · Fixed quote within days · Development starts in 1–2 weeks