Quick note before we start: we're Ryz Labs, and Hire South competes with us when the role is an engineer. We believe we're the stronger pick for engineering teams, and we're specific about when Hire South fits better. Facts about Hire South come from its own site, linked at the end.
A naming note: Hire South (hiresouth.com) is a different company from South (hireinsouth.com). This page is about Hire South.
For engineering teams, Ryz Labs is the better choice for most US companies. We bring top 1% senior Latin American engineers who work on your team on US business hours, and AI pod teams that build in your cloud and ship to production. Before you start, you see a plan, a price and the names of the people. Fortune 500 engineering teams trust us for this.
Hire South is a founder-led nearshore staffing firm started in 2022 by a US-Argentine pair. It places bilingual professionals across engineering, sales operations, legal support, marketing, customer support and logistics, and publishes its fee models. It fits a growing company that wants a founder on every search and a clear percentage fee. For senior engineers and AI pods, pick Ryz.
Deep engineering vetting at scale. Hire South's founders hand-pick every profile, which is a real strength for a few hires. As your engineering team grows, you want a pipeline built for engineers. Ours: recruiters source, our in-house ARC system ranks candidates, every one takes a structured NTRVSTA AI interview, and recruiters review each candidate before and after. AI scores are advisory; people decide. Only the top 1% of tens of thousands interviewed make it. Read the vetting process.
Senior engineers by default. Our engineers are mostly mid-level to senior, comparable to Amazon L5 and L6. They join your standups, your repos and your roadmap and report to your leads, on US business hours, so code review happens the same day.
AI pod teams that ship. When the job is an AI system, we send a dedicated pod of senior engineers, typically about 7 people including a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers. The pod works in your cloud, your GitHub and your CI, with weekly demos, and ships to production. Pods have built fraud detection that has confirmed $5.94M in fraud for a global fleet company and a marketing-compliance system that took review of 8,000+ documents from days to hours. See our case studies.
Trusted by Fortune 500 engineering teams. We work with US enterprises in every industry, including financial services, and bring decades of LatAm expertise. Our recruiting AI is governed under EU AI Act high-risk requirements, and we follow GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
You start with a 20-minute intake with a founder to map the role, level and growth path. Hire South surfaces bilingual candidates from its network, screens English, culture fit and technical knowledge, sends your top 2-5 candidates and sets up interviews with your top 3. A founder sits in on your first debrief. Hire South then handles the offer and paperwork. It says most hires close in 10 days, and every placement comes with a 90-day replacement guarantee. Beyond single hires, it offers dedicated and managed teams and a Build-Operate-Transfer model for companies that want their own team in Latin America later.
Hire South publishes its fee models. Staff augmentation carries a flat margin on the bill rate, disclosed at signing; its example is a senior developer at $6,000 a month. Direct hire is a one-time placement fee of 20% of estimated first-year pay, with no retainers.
Our ranges are published too. Typical Ryz cost is $7,000-$15,000 per engineer per month, mostly mid-level to senior. Mid-level (comparable to Amazon L5 / SDE II) is $7,000-$10,000. Senior (comparable to Amazon L6) is $10,000-$15,000. Leads are $15,000+, quoted per team. Compare the seniority you're actually getting at each price. You get a plan, a price and the names of the people before you start. See also our cost to hire a software developer guide.
Hire South's example senior developer is $6,000 a month; our senior range is $10,000-$15,000. Compare seniority, engineering vetting and whether you need one person or a team that ships. Get written quotes for the same role.
No. Hire South is at hiresouth.com. South, at hireinsouth.com, is a separate company.
Hire South places AI/ML professionals individually. Our AI pod teams are dedicated pods of senior engineers that build AI systems in your cloud and ship them to production.
Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads. Talk to us to scope your team.
We checked Hire South's site in October 2026. Fees and terms change, so confirm them with Hire South before you sign.
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