When you hire LatAm developers through Ryz Labs, you get senior engineers in the top 1% of the tens of thousands we have interviewed. They work on your team, in your repos and at your standups, on US business hours, including New York hours. Trusted by Fortune 500 engineering teams, we match by stack, seniority and time zone, from Mexico City to Buenos Aires.
The short version: real-time overlap with US teams, deep senior talent in the stacks US companies run, and engineers who are used to working directly with US product leaders. For the longer argument, read why hire remote talent from Latin America. This page is about how to hire well.
Most of Latin America does not change clocks, while the US does. So the gap to New York shifts by an hour twice a year. Here are the real offsets for the main tech hubs.
In practice, every city on that list shares most of a New York or Chicago workday. West Coast teams get the most overlap from Mexico and Costa Rica. Regardless of city, Ryz engineers work on US business hours, so standups, pairing and same-day code review happen when your team is online.
Each market has its own profile. Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey have established enterprise and product engineering scenes. Bogotá and Medellín grew on startups and US product teams. Buenos Aires and Córdoba have a long track record in product engineering. São Paulo anchors Brazil's tech scene, with Florianópolis and Belo Horizonte close behind. Santiago, Lima, Montevideo and San José round out the map. We test spoken and written English during vetting, so the people you meet can lead a design review, not just follow one.
Our recruiters source engineers across the region who have built and owned production systems, and they check what each person actually shipped. ARC, our in-house system, ranks the pipeline so recruiters spend their time on the strongest candidates. Each candidate then completes a structured NTRVSTA AI interview built around your stack and role. Recruiters review every candidate before and after that interview and send you a curated shortlist. AI scores are advisory. People make the decisions. Read the full vetting process.
We place across Latin America. If the best person for your role is in Uruguay rather than Mexico, we will tell you so.
Comparing staffing firms? Our list of LatAm staff augmentation companies is honest about where others fit better. Ryz is not the right fit if you want to book hourly work from a marketplace without a conversation, or if you need follow-the-sun coverage on European or Asian hours.
Typical Ryz cost is $7,000–$15,000 per engineer per month, mostly mid-level to senior. Mid-level engineers (comparable to Amazon L5) are $7,000–$10,000 per month. Senior engineers (comparable to Amazon L6) are $10,000–$15,000. Leads are $15,000+, quoted per team. We price on seniority and the value of the work, not on where someone lives. For market context, see LatAm developer salaries.
There is no single answer. Mexico and Costa Rica give West Coast teams the most overlap, Colombia and Peru line up closely with New York, and Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil sit one or two hours ahead. The specific engineer matters more than the country, so we shortlist across the region.
Typically $7,000–$15,000 per engineer per month, mostly mid-level to senior, with leads at $15,000+ quoted per team. Project cost is team size × duration × monthly rate: three senior engineers for six months at $12,000 is $216,000. You get a plan, a price and the names of the people before you start.
Yes. Ryz engineers work on US business hours, including New York hours, and join your standups, planning and reviews live.
Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads, in your tools and repos. Talk to us to scope your team.
Yes. A dedicated development team or an AI pod, typically about seven senior engineers including a tech lead, can own a product area or AI system while working alongside your engineers.
Questions we didn't answer? Email info@ryzlabs.com.