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Your branch
in Colombo.

Twixia hires your team in Sri Lanka, employs them, and gives them an office under your name. You run the work.

You run the team. We do everything else.

Your meetings, your tools, your standards. The team is yours to direct.

Twixia hires your team in Colombo, employs them, pays them and gives them a desk in our office. Since 2022.

Where are you?

5.5 hours ahead of London

London

Colombo

When you start at 9am in London, it is 2:30pm in Colombo.

Your working day
Colombo's working day

Not only engineers.

If the job is done at a desk, we can hire for it in Colombo.

  • Software engineers
  • Embedded developers
  • QA engineers
  • Tech leads
  • Data analysts
  • Accountants
  • Market analysts
  • Bookkeepers
  • Financial analysts
  • Mining analysts
  • Project managers
  • Customer support
  • Back-office teams
  • Administrators

Something else?

Tell us the role. The hiring, the employment and the office work the same way for every one of them.

Four ways to work with us. Each one moves the line.

No presence in Sri Lanka yet. Twixia hires, employs, pays and manages the engineers, and houses them in our Colombo office. You run the work. Transfer the team to your own entity later if you want.

  1. Find, screen and shortlist
  2. Interview and choose
  3. Be the legal employer
  4. Run payroll, EPF and ETF
  5. Provide the office
  6. HR admin and reviews
  7. Direct the daily work

On your side: 2

On Twixia's side: 5

The managed team, line by line.

Your side is short on purpose.

Hiring

Tell us the role. Interview three to five people. Choose.

We scope the role with you: seniority, stack, reporting line, overlap hours and budget.

We search, not just advertise. Most people we place were not looking when we found them.

We screen before you see anyone: a CV check, an English and communication call, and a technical check against your stack.

Salaries benchmarked. We know what engineers, analysts and accountants are paid in Colombo, role by role, so your offer lands the person without overpaying the market.

A hiring manager reading the top CV from a short list of three

Employment

Nothing to set up. No entity, no lawyer, no payroll provider.

The right paperwork. Employment contracts written for Sri Lankan labour law. EPF, ETF, gratuity, leave and notice periods handled correctly from day one.

A contract that holds. We enforce it locally on your behalf: notice periods, confidentiality, IP assignment and the return of equipment. You are not chasing anyone from another time zone.

An employment contract being signed, with a company seal beside the signature

The working day

Run your standups and sprints as usual. Your Jira, your Slack.

Colombo is 4.5 to 5.5 hours ahead of the UK, so your team has done half a day before London logs on.

A fixed daily overlap window is written into the agreement, and the team hands over in writing at the end of every day.

A Colombo team at a standup, talking to a colleague on the wall screen

The office

Send us your logo, your laptop spec and your policies.

A desk in our office. Second floor, Oceanica Tower, Galle Road, Colombo 03. Fibre broadband, a standby generator, biometric access, CCTV, team rooms and a meeting room.

Your brand. Your name at the floor entrance and on your office door, and your branding on company assets and stationery. An offshore branch, not a rented desk.

Your setup, your rules. IT assets to your requirements, physical security, and your company policies enforced locally by people in the same room as your team.

The Twixia name mounted on the corridor wall of the Colombo office

The bill

Pay one invoice a month.

One invoice. No hidden costs. Salary, office, equipment, HR and compliance for your Colombo team, on a single monthly invoice.

Do it yourself and that is a payroll provider, an accountant, an employment lawyer, a landlord, an IT supplier and a security firm to find, contract and pay. Ask us for the number.

Later

Keep going, or take the team into your own entity.

We hand the team over, intact. When Benchmark Mineral Intelligence's contract concluded, their analysts moved into Benchmark's own Sri Lankan entity. Same people, same work, now employed directly.

Five things that go wrong with offshore teams.

And the boring fix we build in for each.

The time zone becomes an excuse.
A fixed daily overlap window written into the agreement, and a short written handover at the end of every day.
Your best person leaves at month nine.
A real office, a career path, and a direct relationship with your team. Retention is a management job, not a hiring job.
Status is green until the day it is red.
Your team sits in your meetings and your tools. No vendor layer between you and the people doing the work.
Nobody can say who owns the work.
IP assignment and an NDA in every employment contract, managed laptops, and access controls you can audit.
You hear about problems from the invoice.
A named Twixia manager, a monthly review, and a replacement guarantee if a hire does not work out.

Two offices.
One team.

Tell us the role. We will come back with how we would find them, and what it costs.

Tell us the role

Tell us what you need.

Send the role. We reply within one working day, and if we can help, we send you times for a call.

Teams we have built.

  1. We built Xunison an engineering team in Colombo, under its own name.

    The Xunison-branded wall in the team's Colombo office

    Tech leads, embedded software developers and project managers for home automation products.

    XunisonIrelandManaged offshore team

  2. Then they flew in to cut the ribbon on it.

    Cutting the ribbon to open the Xunison office in Colombo

    A dedicated office, branded as Xunison, so the team worked as part of the company.

    XunisonIrelandBranded office

  3. We built Benchmark a team of analysts. Then we handed it over, intact.

    Same people, same work. At the end of the contract the team joined Benchmark's own Sri Lankan entity.

    Benchmark Mineral IntelligenceUnited KingdomBuild, operate, transfer

  4. Two Qatar firms. Their recruitment, delivered from Colombo.

    The delivery arm for their headhunting and remote recruitment: sourcing, screening and shortlisting.

    DataVoiz and EntelystQatarHeadhunting and recruitment

Why we never say cheap. Sri Lanka is value.

The Colombo skyline over Beira Lake, with the Lotus Tower
  • HCL put 5,000 seats in Sri Lanka. EY put 1,000. The talent is here. Twixia helps you reach it without opening an office.
  • USD 1.65 billion in IT and BPM exports in 2025.
  • The second-largest pool of CIMA accountants in the world. Colombo builds finance, analytics and reporting teams too.
  • Taught in English. Moratuwa and Peradeniya for engineering, Colombo for computing, SLIIT for software and IT.
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