Software development company for New York teams

Ryz Labs gives New York engineering teams senior software developers who work New York hours, remotely from Latin America. Our engineers, the top 1% of the tens of thousands we interview, build in your repos and cloud alongside your team, with real-time overlap for standups, code review and incidents. We are not a local agency with a Manhattan office; we are the nearshore option for New York teams that want senior people on their own clock.

What we build for New York teams

New York's software work clusters around a few industries, each with its own constraints. These are the systems our teams most often build for companies based there.

• Financial services platforms: trading and portfolio tools, client reporting, KYC and onboarding flows, and risk dashboards for asset managers, brokers and other financial institutions. See financial services.
• Fintech and payments products: ledgers, card and ACH flows, reconciliation jobs and partner APIs, built with idempotency and double-entry accounting in mind. See fintech.
• Media and publishing systems: content management back ends, paywalls and subscriptions, ad-tech integrations and video pipelines. See media and entertainment.
• Enterprise SaaS: multi-tenant B2B products with SSO, SCIM provisioning, granular permissions and the audit logs enterprise security reviews ask for.
• Internal tools for regulated teams: compliance review queues, approval workflows and data-access portals that need change history and least-privilege access.
• Data platforms: market, customer and event data pipelines into Snowflake or Databricks, with tested dbt models feeding the reports executives read.
• AI features: when the roadmap includes LLM features or agents, our AI pod teams build them in the same cloud and repos.

How an engagement works

1. Talk. A call with your engineering lead during your working day: the system, the stack, security requirements and how your team runs.
2. Match. We propose a team with names, seniority and a monthly price. You meet the engineers before anything starts.
3. Join. The team gets repo, CI and cloud access through your normal onboarding, joins your standups on Eastern time and starts shipping pull requests.
4. Grow. Add engineers as the roadmap grows, add a QA or DevOps engineer, or hand the system to your in-house team when it is done.

Week 1 usually means vendor onboarding, laptops or VDI, VPN and access requests, plus reading the codebase and getting it running. In New York financial firms, security onboarding is often the longest step, so we start the paperwork the day you choose the team. Month 1 typically ends with the first changes in production and a shared view of the technical risks. By month 3, the team owns part of the roadmap and participates in on-call and release planning. Actual pace depends on scope and your onboarding.

The stack our teams work in

How we work with New York teams day to day

Most complaints New York engineering leaders have about remote vendors come down to a few failure modes. Here is how our teams handle each.

• Overnight review queues. Offshore teams on the other side of the world leave pull requests waiting until the next morning. Our engineers work New York hours, so code review is same-day and a blocked question gets answered in minutes.
• Releasing during market hours. For trading and client-facing financial systems, our teams follow your deploy windows and change freezes, use feature flags to decouple deploy from release, and keep rollbacks rehearsed.
• Regulatory and security expectations. Our engineers have experience working within SOC 2, PCI DSS and the controls financial firms apply for NYDFS cybersecurity rules and SEC or FINRA recordkeeping: least-privilege access, audit trails, no production data on laptops, and documented change management.
• Vendor risk reviews. Expect a security questionnaire and background checks. We answer them before work starts so the team is not idle in week 2 waiting for access.
• Incidents at 4 p.m. Eastern. Because the team works your hours, the people who wrote the code are online when it breaks, not asleep.
• Communication gaps. Our engineers communicate clearly in English, write design docs and pull request descriptions, and demo weekly so stakeholders outside engineering see progress.

Our engineers work remotely. If you want people on site for a planning week, tell us during scoping and we will discuss what is possible; we don't promise in-person presence.

Team shapes and cost

Typical Ryz cost is $7,000–$15,000 per engineer per month, mostly mid-level to senior: mid-level (comparable to Amazon L5) $7,000–$10,000, senior (comparable to Amazon L6) $10,000–$15,000, leads $15,000+, quoted per team.

• Two senior engineers on your team: 2 × $10,000–$15,000 = $20,000–$30,000 per month.
• Feature team: a tech lead plus 3 senior engineers. 3 × $10,000–$15,000 = $30,000–$45,000, plus the lead at $15,000+, so $45,000+ per month.
• Platform team: a tech lead, 4 senior engineers, a QA engineer and a DevOps engineer. 6 × $7,000–$15,000 = $42,000–$90,000, plus the lead, so roughly $57,000–$105,000+ per month depending on seniority mix.

You get a scoped plan, a price and the names of the people who would do the work before you start.

Dedicated team or staff augmentation?

Choose a dedicated development team for a new product, a rebuild or a migration you want one accountable team to own. Choose staff augmentation when your architecture and managers are in place and you need senior software engineers on your team, taking tickets from your backlog. For a broader view of the options, read our guide to nearshore developers for New York companies.

When Ryz isn't the right fit

If you need engineers in your office every day, hire locally. If you want a self-serve freelance marketplace or short hourly gigs, or need follow-the-sun coverage across European and Asian hours, other providers fit better. A board-level transformation program belongs with a large consultancy.

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FAQ

Do you have an office in New York?

No. Our engineers work remotely from Latin America on New York business hours. You get real-time collaboration on Eastern time without paying for local office overhead.

How much does a software development team for a New York company cost?

Typical cost is $7,000–$15,000 per engineer per month, mostly mid-level to senior, with leads at $15,000+ quoted per team. A team of three senior engineers is 3 × $10,000–$15,000 = $30,000–$45,000 per month. You get a plan, a price and names before you start.

How quickly can a team start?

After the scoping call we propose a team. Most of the timeline depends on scope and your onboarding; at regulated New York firms, security and vendor onboarding is usually the longest step.

Can your engineers meet our compliance requirements?

Our engineers have experience working within SOC 2, PCI DSS and financial-services controls, and they follow your access, change-management and data-handling policies. Ryz does not claim those certifications for itself.

Do you only work with financial companies?

No. Financial services is one of many industries we serve. Our teams also build for media, SaaS, healthcare, retail and other sectors.

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