We'll say this up front: Ryz Labs wrote this page, and we think we're the better choice here. We've kept every fact about other companies to what they publish themselves or what public listings show, with sources at the end.
If you're hiring senior software engineers or need an AI system built, pick Ryz Labs. Engineering is our whole business: top 1% senior engineers who work on your team on US business hours, and AI pod teams that build in your cloud and ship to production. You see a plan, a price and the names of the people before you start, and Fortune 500 engineering teams trust us with this work.
Somewhere, formerly Support Shepherd, is a remote hiring service that says it has served 5,000+ companies and hired 11,000+ candidates. Its most popular category is executive and virtual assistants, and it also places operations, sales, finance and some engineering roles from the Philippines, Latin America and South Africa. It fits a business owner adding a first remote assistant or operator. For engineering teams, pick Ryz.
Engineering specialists vetting engineers. Somewhere hires across assistants, sales, finance and support, and engineering is one category. Our pipeline is built for engineers: recruiters source, our in-house ARC system ranks candidates, and every one goes through a structured NTRVSTA AI interview with recruiter review before and after. Only the top 1% of the tens of thousands of engineers we've interviewed make it. Read the vetting process.
Senior engineers, priced as senior engineers. Somewhere's software engineer page shows Latin America salaries of about $2,300 to $3,600 a month, a range built for cost savings. Ryz engineers are mostly mid-level to senior, comparable to Amazon L5 and L6, and work on your team from week one: your standups, your repos, your roadmap. If the job is owning a production system, seniority is the whole point.
AI pod teams that ship. When you need an AI system built, not one more hire, we bring a dedicated pod: about seven senior engineers, including a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers, working in your cloud and CI with weekly demos. Pods have shipped fraud detection that has confirmed $5.94M in fraud for a global fleet company and an AI voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls. See our case studies.
One time zone. Our engineers work US business hours, including New York hours, so code review and incidents get handled the same day. Somewhere spreads hires across Asia, Africa and Latin America, which is fine for many roles and harder for a team that ships every day.
Somewhere offers two services. With Direct Hire, you pay a one-time, fully refundable deposit to start the search, interview candidates, and then pay a one-time fee based on the new hire's first-year salary; after that your company manages pay, compliance and day-to-day work. With Talent On-Demand, Somewhere quotes a monthly price after scoping. Its pricing pages describe a 6-month guarantee with a free replacement, and its ads say vetted candidates arrive in about 5 to 7 days with no fee if you don't hire.
Somewhere publishes its fee structure but not a single price: a refundable deposit, then a one-time fee tied to first-year salary for Direct Hire, or a monthly quote for On-Demand. Its role pages show salary ranges by region before its fee.
Ours is published as an all-in range. 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. See our developer rates by role.
Yes. Support Shepherd rebranded as Somewhere, at somewhere.com.
For the monthly salary of the hire, usually yes, because Somewhere is built around cost savings and many of its roles are assistant and operations roles. Compare like for like: the seniority of the engineer, the hours they work, and who vets and supports them. For senior engineers and AI teams, we think the total cost of a missed roadmap matters more than the monthly rate.
Somewhere places individual hires. If you need a team that builds and ships an AI system in your cloud, that's what our AI pod teams do.
No. We place engineers, plus data, product and design people, and we build AI pod teams. For assistants, Somewhere is a reasonable choice.
Last checked October 2026. Pricing, guarantees and services move fast in this market, so verify the details with each company.
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