What a Claude Code Developer does
A Claude Code developer is a senior backend or platform engineer whose day is built around delegating work to an agent in the terminal instead of typing every line. The skill you are hiring is not prompting. It is cutting a migration into units an agent can finish unattended, writing the CLAUDE.md and subagents that make it produce your team's code instead of generic code, setting permissions so it can run tests but never touch production, and reviewing a forty-file diff fast enough that the leverage survives review. Teams that already standardized on the tool hire for this because that workflow takes months to build and their own engineers are learning it on payroll.
Monthly rate
$5,500–$8,500/mo
All-in: contract, benefits, equipment, IP
Experience
10+ years engineering
2+ delegating to coding agents
Location
Latin America
Argentina · Colombia · Mexico
Timezone
Full US overlap
Fluent English, onboarded in one week
Core stack
AI tools, daily
Verticals seen
What a Claude Code Developer owns - and what they don't
What they own
- Run large multi-file changes through Claude Code: framework upgrades, dependency migrations, API version cutovers, dead-code removal
- Write and maintain the CLAUDE.md, subagents and slash commands that keep agent output inside your conventions
- Set permission scopes and hooks so the agent runs tests and linters unattended and stops before anything irreversible
- Backfill test coverage on the parts of the codebase everyone has been avoiding for years
- Review a forty-file agent diff at the pace the leverage depends on, and throw out the parts that are wrong
What they don't - and who does instead
- Build LLM features into your product. That's an AI Engineer
- Design the multi-agent system your product runs on. That's an AI Agent Architect
- Implement the MCP servers that expose your systems to agents. That's an MCP Developer
- Pair line by line in the IDE for fast UI iteration. That's what a Cursor Developer optimizes for
Who hires a Claude Code Developer, and for what
Teams that bought Claude Code licenses and hit a ceiling. The tool is deployed and usage stops at autocomplete-grade tasks. One engineer who delegates entire workstreams changes what the rest of the team believes is possible with it.
Platform teams with a migration nobody has started. A framework two majors behind, an untyped service layer, a dependency with a CVE in 300 files. Work that never justified a headcount justifies one when a senior supervises an agent through the mechanical part.
CTOs who want the productivity claim audited on their own repo. They have heard the multipliers. What they want is the diff, the test run and the review load measured on their codebase before they change how the team works.
- 01
Framework and language migrations. Angular to React, .NET Framework to .NET 8, a Rails major upgrade. Breadth an agent handles module by module under a senior's supervision, with the suite green at every step.
- 02
Test coverage on code nobody wants to touch. Characterization tests first over the untested core, then the refactor that was too risky before the safety net existed.
- 03
Automated review and codebase hygiene. Subagents that check every PR against your conventions, so human review goes to design decisions instead of naming, null checks and missing tests.
- 04
Standing up the workflow itself. CLAUDE.md, subagents, hooks and a permission policy for your repos, plus the working sessions where your engineers learn to delegate and verify rather than watch.
Work our engineers at this role have shipped
Greelow has shipped production software since 2017 for clients including OneReach.ai, Banorte and Deepak Chopra, rated 5.0 on Clutch and ISO 9001 certified. That record is the seniority bar we hire against. It is not a claim about which tools those projects used: the agent workflow on this page is how our engineers work now.
- Rails 5-to-7 upgrade on a revenue-critical SaaS, cut into agent-sized units so every merge was small enough to reject without losing a week
- .NET Framework to .NET 8 cutover where the repetitive file-by-file work was delegated to an agent and reviewed by the client's in-house team
- Monolith-to-services extraction (NestJS + Redis + PostgreSQL) scoped so each service moved as one supervised agent run, with no feature freeze
- Background-job overhaul that took a nightly batch from hours to minutes, job rewrites handed to an agent and reviewed one small PR at a time
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Copilot: what each one is for
Most production teams run more than one. The question is which tool owns which kind of work.
| Claude Code | Cursor | GitHub Copilot | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Terminal, outside the editor | Inside the editor | Inside the editor, as you type |
| Unit of work | A whole task: migration, refactor, test backfill | The file or component in front of you | The next few lines |
| Your job while it runs | Scope the task, then review the diff | Steer the model line by line | Accept or reject the suggestion |
| Best fit | Wide mechanical change nobody has scheduled | Feature work that needs fast iteration | Baseline speed on code you know well |
| Fails when | Someone approves a diff they cannot explain | Pull requests grow past what review holds | The team expects it to plan the work |
Do you actually need a Claude Code Developer?
You do, if:
- Your team pays for Claude Code and uses it as a faster autocomplete
- There is a refactor or migration everyone agrees on and nobody has started
- The mechanical half of every review (conventions, null checks, missing tests) eats the hours your seniors should spend on design decisions
- You want the productivity claim measured on your repo, not on a vendor benchmark
You probably don't, if:
- You want AI inside your product rather than inside your delivery. Hire an AI Engineer
- Your constraint is UI iteration speed in the editor. A Cursor Developer fits better
- You need your internal systems exposed to agents through a protocol. That's an MCP Developer
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