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Hire offshore developers, or nearshore engineers on your hours

If you are looking to hire offshore developers, compare time-zone overlap and total cost first. Nearshore engineers on your hours often ship faster.

Ryz places senior, top 1% nearshore developers on your team for $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, and you meet named candidates before you sign. It is the answer to "hire offshore developers" without the overnight gap: our engineers work US business hours, including New York hours, so reviews and decisions happen the same day.

What our nearshore developers work on

Teams looking for offshore developers usually have more backlog than headcount. Our engineers take on the same work, with your leads setting priorities in real time:

Offshore vs nearshore: what changes for your team

The biggest difference is not geography. It is how many hours a day your engineers and your leads are online together. Here is how a 9 to 5 New York day lines up with common locations. New York is UTC-5 in winter and UTC-4 in summer.

Where the engineer isDifference from New YorkOverlap with a 9 to 5 New York day
Colombia (Bogota, UTC-5, no daylight saving)Same time in winter, 1 hour behind in summerAll or nearly all of it, on local hours
Mexico City (UTC-6, no daylight saving since 2022)1 to 2 hours behind6 to 7 hours
Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil (UTC-3, no daylight saving)1 to 2 hours ahead6 to 7 hours
Central and Eastern Europe (e.g. Poland, Romania)Usually 6 hours ahead (7 for Romania), briefly 5 when daylight saving dates differAbout 1 to 2 hours
India (UTC+5:30, no daylight saving)9.5 to 10.5 hours aheadNone, unless someone works nights
Philippines (UTC+8)12 to 13 hours aheadNone, unless someone works nights
Ryz engineersWork US business hours, including New York hoursThe full day

With little or no overlap, every question becomes a handoff: a pull request waits overnight for review, and a blocked engineer waits a day for an answer. For a deeper comparison, read our nearshore vs offshore guide, or check your own team with the time zone overlap calculator.

Engineers on your team, not a vendor queue

Many offshore development teams work as a separate unit, with a vendor manager in between. Ours work the other way:

Offshore development rates and total cost

Offshore vendors often quote lower hourly rates than nearshore or US teams. The hourly rate is only part of the cost, though. Total cost also depends on handoff delays between time zones, rework when a requirement is misread overnight, and the hours your leads spend writing specs and checking output. None of that shows up on a rate card.

Ryz pricing is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, depending on seniority and the role. For broader benchmarks, see the cost to hire a software developer and our page on developer salaries across Latin America.

What happens after you ask for developers

Talk: your stack, the work and what did not work with past vendors. Match: a price, a written scope and the engineers' names. Join: your repos, CI and standups. Grow: more engineers, a tech lead or a dedicated team. If an engineer is not the right fit, we replace them free.

Skills we vet for

How we vet developers

Recruiters source senior engineers and check what they built, with weight on teams that replaced or absorbed offshore work. ARC, our in-house system, ranks the pipeline. Structured NTRVSTA AI interviews test design and debugging in your stack. Recruiters review each candidate before and after, then send a curated shortlist. AI scores are advisory. People decide.

Sample interview topics

Ways to hire developers

OptionBest forTrade-offs
Freelance marketplaceShort, well-defined tasksVetting, continuity and time zones are on you
Offshore development vendorWell-specified work that can run asynchronouslyLittle overlap with US hours; work often runs through a vendor manager
Staffing or recruiting agencyPermanent hiresTechnical depth of screening varies; long searches
In-house recruitingCore long-term rolesSlow and costly for senior engineers
Ryz Labs staff augmentationAdding senior engineers to your existing teamYour leads direct the work; best with a clear roadmap
Ryz Labs dedicated teamA product or workstream that needs its own tech leadScoped as a team, so it starts with a plan

Ryz is not the right fit if you want follow-the-sun coverage from engineers in Europe or Asia, or hourly gigs booked from a self-serve marketplace.

Offshore developers for hire, or a remote team on your hours

You can hire a single developer to fill one gap, or hire an offshore development team's worth of engineers who work as a group. Either way, the engineers who join you work remotely on US hours. If you want to hire remote developers one at a time, see our remote developers page. If you want to hire an offshore development team and would rather have one that shares your working day, see development teams or our nearshore software development overview.

Why hire nearshore developers from Latin America

Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil have deep senior talent, and many engineers there have years on US product teams. As the table shows, the region overlaps most or all of a New York workday. Europe overlaps a couple of hours, and South and Southeast Asia none.

Production work our engineers deliver

Our engineers built a fraud detection platform for a global fleet company: 244K+ invoices scored, under 30 seconds per decision, and $5.94M in fraud confirmed and validated by the client's fraud team. Wiring a real-time scoring API into the client's maintenance systems took close back-and-forth, which is far easier on shared hours.

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FAQ

Are your developers offshore or nearshore?

Nearshore. Our engineers are based in Latin America and work US business hours, so you get remote engineers without the overnight gap.

How much does it cost to hire developers through Ryz?

$7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, scoped per team. Before you sign, you get a plan, a price and the names of the people who would do the work.

What hours do your engineers work?

US business hours, including New York hours. Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads. Talk to us to scope your team.

Can I hire an offshore development team instead of individuals?

Yes. We build dedicated teams with a tech lead and the engineers the work needs, on your hours.

Questions we didn't answer? Email info@ryzlabs.com.

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