Software development company · London

A London company.
Engineers who own the outcome.

Core70 is a software development company with an office in London. In the UK, Core70 services are provided by Shinetech Europe Ltd, a London company since 2010. You contract under English law and are invoiced in GBP. A named engineer works full-time on your system, talks to you directly, and receives 70% of the engineering fee. If you want to talk to someone in London, call the office.

Who you deal with in the UK

An office in London.
A phone that rings there.

Buying engineering from a company you can't visit is a reasonable worry. Ours has an address in the City of London, a UK phone number, and a managing director you can speak to.

Shinetech Europe Ltd

8 Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4PL

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 1166
Email: hello@core70.com

  • Frank Zhang, Managing Director
  • Meetings in London by appointment
  • Registered in England and Wales, company number 07141834
  • VAT GB 993 0254 10 · ICO registration Z2923370
How it works for UK clients

English law. GBP. Fees you can see.

  • Your contract is with Shinetech Europe Ltd, under the laws of England and Wales
  • Typically £32–£40 per hour (about £5,100–£6,400 per engineer per month) plus VAT. Rates are set in GBP and reviewed once a year
  • Invoices in GBP, with the 70/10/20 split shown on every invoice
  • Personal data handled under UK GDPR, with a data processing agreement before any processing
  • Cyber Essentials Plus, held by Shinetech Europe Ltd
  • No minimum term; thirty days' notice either way
How we handle your data →
UK clients

Measured in decades,
not contracts.

Two of our longest relationships are with UK organisations, and both are still running.

Barts Health NHS Trust · 10+ years, ongoing

25,000 staff. Three eras of the NHS. One team throughout.

A paper training register in one of the largest trusts in England, replaced with a system that still had to be right ten years later. During the pandemic the same system supported evacuation planning and infection tracing at NHS Nightingale, because the people who built it were still looking after it.

Read the case study →
Formpak · 18 years, ongoing

Eighteen years. One team. Still going.

The same core team has modernised Formpak's platform for the fragrance and flavour industry across three technology generations, while Formpak grew from a handful of clients to more than 100 worldwide.

Read the case study →
Where the work is done

Engineers at our engineering centre.
Live with you every UK morning.

The engineers who write your code work from our engineering centre in Asia, with several hours of live overlap every UK working morning — conversation time, not a handover window — and the rest asynchronously, so work moves overnight. Your contract, invoices, data protection terms and the people you can meet are in London. More on our engineers →

Ways to work with us

A developer, a team that runs production,
or a first look at your code.

Dedicated Developer

You run production.

You have a CTO or product owner who keeps the keys. A named engineer builds and ships into the environments you give them.

Dedicated Team

We run production.

No technical leader of your own? The team holds your production environment, handles incidents, and one full-time Account Owner is accountable for it.

Start here

A free code health check.

We read your system and tell you, in writing, what we would do with it — before anyone talks about price. Then, if it makes sense, a small fixed-price first project.

Before you get in touch

What we ask of you.

Pay for judgement, not the cheapest hour. Give the engineers a direct line and room to decide. Treat them as your team, not as interchangeable resource. Everything else — contract form, service levels, where your data lives — we set with you.

Ready to talk?

Tell us what you're building.
Or call London: +44 (0)20 7862 1166.

One business day for a written reply. A named engineer, a plain answer on price in GBP, and a meeting in London if you'd like one.

Get Started Call the London office