HIRE LATAM ENGINEERS
Senior LatAm engineers, vetted by the founders. Three candidates, not thirty.
We're a Caracas-based studio that places senior engineers — Frontend, Backend, Full-stack, DevOps, Mobile, AI — into US tech teams. We run the technical interviews ourselves rather than handing you a catalog, which is why we place few engineers and why the ones we send are worth the hour. You manage the engineer, we manage the contract.
WHY LATAM
The math is hard to argue with.
A senior engineer in San Francisco runs you $245K loaded ($175K base + 40% benefits/tax/recruiting). The same skill set through us: about $84K loaded — fully on a US-Delaware invoice, with a Master Services Agreement that covers IP, NDAs and your exit terms. The bar for anyone we put in front of you: 5+ years of production experience, native or near-native English, and working hours adapted to your team — whether that's PST, EST, CET or anywhere in between. They join your standup, ship in your repo, write in your Slack — exactly like a remote employee, minus the H-1B paperwork.
WHO WE PLACE
Roles we cover.
We focus on roles where senior judgment compounds: backend systems, distributed infra, ML/AI, and product engineering. We don't source juniors and we don't place "10× rockstars" without proof. Every candidate has shipped meaningful production code in the last 12 months.
HOW WE VET
A 3-stage screen. The founders run it.
No leetcode, and no recruiter in between. Real work in your stack, interviewed by the people whose name is on the contract — which is exactly why we place few engineers instead of many.
- 01
Live coding in your stack
90-minute paired session solving a representative problem from your domain. We watch debugging instinct, not memorized patterns.
- 02
Systems-design conversation
A 60-minute architecture discussion: trade-offs, failure modes, scale considerations. We listen for hands-on production experience.
- 03
Communication & ownership
45-minute non-technical interview to assess written English clarity, async communication habits, and how they handle ambiguity.
WHAT YOU GET
Beyond the engineer.
- Engineer integrated into your team within 14 days from kickoff
- Master Services Agreement with clean IP assignment to your entity
- Single monthly invoice in USD against US Delaware entity
- Payroll, taxes, and labor compliance fully handled by us
- Exit on 30 days notice if the fit is wrong — no claw-back
- Direct Slack with our leadership — no account managers in between
- Quarterly review of how the engagement is actually going — cost, utilization, what to change
FAQ
Common questions. Honest answers.
How is this different from Toptal or Andela?
Toptal's vetting is broad — they place from 100+ countries with English as a second hurdle. Andela has scaled into a marketplace model where you mostly source yourself. We're a focused boutique: founders interview every senior we place, we work primarily with LatAm talent we know personally or have referrals for, and our pricing reflects no public-company overhead. Lower cost, higher signal per candidate.
What happens if the engineer doesn't work out?
You give us 30 days notice and you're out — no claw-back, and we don't bill the transition. We'll look for a replacement, but we won't promise you a candidate inside a week: we're a boutique and there is no bench of idle engineers sitting here. A vendor who guarantees you a 7-day replacement either pays people to wait or plans to improvise. What we do guarantee is that ending it costs us the contract, which is exactly why we don't push a marginal candidate to close one.
Can the engineer work directly in our codebase?
Yes. They're integrated like any remote employee: your repos, your CI/CD, your Slack, your standups. We don't insert ourselves between you and the engineer. You evaluate their commits, you decide their roadmap, you give them direct feedback.
What about IP and NDA?
Every contract includes a clean IP assignment clause: anything the engineer produces while engaged with you is yours, fully and exclusively. NDAs available before the first technical conversation. We never reuse code, designs, or proprietary data from one client on another.
Do you offer team placements (squads)?
Not yet, and we'd rather say so than take the deal. Sourcing a coordinated squad — a tech lead plus two seniors plus DevOps — takes a bench we don't keep at this size. We place one engineer at a time and do it properly. If you need four people next month, a larger firm genuinely serves you better and we'll say so on the call.
How do you handle taxes and compliance for the engineers?
Our Venezuelan entity holds the engineer contracts, runs payroll in USD, and handles all local labor and tax compliance. You receive a single monthly invoice from our US Delaware entity — clean for your accounting and audit.
Need more senior hands? See the math.
When a build needs to scale, we place vetted senior engineers on your team — same time zone, your repo, your standups. Compare a fully-loaded US hire against our flat monthly rate.
Estimated annual savings
$171,000
Estimates use US fully-loaded cost (salary × 1.4 + recruiting amortization). Talk to us for a precise quote.
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