Hire Senior Latin American Developers in 3 Weeks

You can hire pre-vetted developers in Latin America through Hire With Near, which recruits full-time software engineers for US companies, whether you need a generalist who can work across a small team’s whole stack, a specialist for one part of it, or an engineer to help move a legacy system to a modern one.

Hiring a developer in Latin America through Hire With Near costs the developer’s salary, $2,500 to $9,000 a month depending on seniority, plus our fee, which depends on how you hire.

According to Hire With Near’s salary data, developers in Latin America earn:

• Junior: $2,500 to $3,800 a month (about $14 to $22 an hour), against $80,000 to $144,000 a year in the US
• Mid-level: $4,000 to $6,000 a month (about $23 to $35 an hour), against $87,000 to $157,000
• Senior: $6,000 to $9,000 a month (about $35 to $52 an hour), against $106,000 to $189,000

Those ranges are salary only. Our fee is separate: a monthly fee under our staffing model, or a one-time fee if you hire directly, and you pay nothing until you hire.

Where a developer lands in the range depends on seniority, how specialized the stack is, and their location.

Most companies hire a developer through Hire With Near in under three weeks, and on 84% of our engineering searches, the first shortlist arrives within five days of the kick-off call.

From there, it depends on how many interview and technical rounds you run. A search for a strong generalist usually moves faster than one for an exact combination of frameworks, and your feedback on the first candidates sharpens the next batch (if needed).

Hire With Near vets developers against what your role needs, starting with a kick-off call that goes past the job description: what the developer will own, what success looks like in the first months, and which parts of the stack they’ll work across.

We ask each candidate about the systems they’ve built and shipped recently, which languages and tools they used, and what they personally owned, because a long list of skills on a resume says little on its own. We also ask how they use AI coding tools in their day-to-day work. A sourcer and a recruiter both interview candidates on most searches, and the recruiter makes the final call on who reaches you.

You get a shortlist in 3 to 5 days, with a video introduction of each candidate, then you meet them and run your technical round. We check references on your finalist before the offer.

Yes you can run your own technical round, and we recommend it. Your engineers are the best judges of whether a developer can work in your codebase. A standard coding test can’t tell you how someone will handle your system, especially a legacy codebase you’re moving to a modern stack. Your engineers can test that against the problems your team works on.

We screen for experience, communication, and fit against your criteria, and your engineers test the technical depth your codebase needs. Many teams now run a system design conversation or a practical scenario instead of a puzzle-style coding test, which senior engineers tend to avoid and AI tools have made harder to read.

Yes, developers in Latin America work US business hours, because most of the region is zero to three hours from US time zones.

Need overlap with a specific time zone, like a daily standup at 10 a.m. Eastern? Tell us at kick-off, and we’ll screen for it

Yes, Hire With Near screens every developer for English that holds up in code review and standups, interviewing each candidate in English about their own projects before you meet them. You also hear it for yourself in each candidate’s video introduction.

Clients often tell us an accent doesn’t bother them. What matters is that the developer explains their work clearly, speaks up early on a remote team, and is comfortable jumping on a quick call. If your team is writing-heavy, or the developer will talk to customers, tell us at kick-off and we’ll screen for it.

Latin American developers know the languages and frameworks US teams run: JavaScript and TypeScript (React, Angular, Vue.js, and Node.js), Python, Java, C# and .NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Go, plus Swift, Kotlin, and Flutter on mobile.

JavaScript, Python, and React each appear in about a third of the engineering job descriptions US companies send us, with TypeScript, SQL, AWS, and PostgreSQL close behind.

At kick-off, we sort out which parts of your stack are must-haves and which a strong engineer can pick up on the job. Many teams care more about range than an exact match, as long as the developer has used their core language in recent, shipped work. If a strong candidate is one framework away from yours, we’ll tell you.

Yes, Latin American developers handle AI, machine learning, and data work, from LLM features and retrieval to models in production and the data pipelines behind them.

An AI engineer and an engineer who uses AI are different hires, so we ask which one you need at kick-off. Some teams need someone to build AI into the product. Others want a generalist who codes faster with AI tools and still understands every line those tools produce.

For roles focused on AI or data, see our AI developer, machine learning engineer, and data engineer pages.

If a developer you hire through Hire With Near doesn’t work out, we find a replacement: within 180 days at no extra cost on direct hire, and with no time limit under our staffing model.

We also check in 3 days before the start date, after the first week, at 30, 60, and 90 days, and then once a quarter, so problems come up early instead of months in. Most placements last: 80% of the people we place stay two years or more.

Yes, Hire With Near helps you hire compliantly in Latin America. Every company's situation is different, so before you hire, we walk you through your options and help you choose the one that fits.

That can mean Hire With Near handling payroll, contracts and compliance for you through our EOR services, or hiring directly and managing the arrangement on your own. We'll answer any questions you have along the way.

Hire a dedicated developer when the work is your product, and outsource only a one-off project with a clear end.

A developer on your team builds up context about your codebase, your users, and why past decisions were made, context an outsourced team tends to lose when the contract changes. Some companies replacing an outsourced team tell us the problem was how little that team took part in the product. 15% of the US companies hiring engineers through Hire With Near are leaving a development outsourcing firm to build their own team.

No, Hire With Near doesn’t place developers hourly or for a single project: your developer joins your team full time and works on your product for the long term, and our placements stay an average of three years.

We recruit full-time team members rather than matching you with freelancers, so for a few weeks of help on a one-off project, a freelance marketplace fits better.

Hire With Near takes on more of the process for you than most firms: one recruiter owns your search from the kick-off call to the signed offer, and stays your contact after your developer starts.

You set your developer’s salary instead of paying an all-inclusive rate someone else sets, and you can hire directly or through our staffing model. Our replacement terms run longer than what most firms offer: 180 days on direct hire and no time limit under our staffing model. And if you’re hiring beyond engineering, you don’t need to find another partner. We can cover any role that can be done remotely, from QA and product to finance and operations.

Clients who’ve worked with other firms often tell us the biggest difference is how working with us feels: closer to having your own in-house recruiter than an outside agency. Your recruiter gets to know your team and how you hire, keeps you updated at every step, adapts the process to what works for you, and is easy to reach when something comes up. More than half of our G2 reviews call out our communication and responsiveness. To see more of what clients say, read our reviews.