Hire LATAM developers
Hire LATAM developers with a full working-day overlap
LATAM developers are software engineers based in Latin America who work US business hours. Greelow has been placing them with US teams since 2017 from its Buenos Aires operation, with contracts signed through a Florida LLC. Buenos Aires is 1-2 hours from US Eastern year-round, because Argentina does not observe daylight saving time.
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The argument is timezone overlap, not just cost. Buenos Aires is 1-2 hours from US Eastern, and Argentina's UTC-3 offset does not shift with daylight saving - so the overlap is the same in January and July, unlike a Europe-based team whose gap to the US widens and narrows with the clock change.
That overlap is what makes standups, code review and incident response happen in real time instead of overnight. A LATAM developer working alongside your team feels closer to a local hire than to an offshore one - without the US hiring timeline or the US loaded cost.
Looking for the fuller nearshore picture, or want to skip straight to a role? See how nearshore software development works at Greelow, or go directly to hire nearshore developers.
What LATAM countries the team works from
Argentina
Buenos Aires - the core of the team, UTC-3 year-round, 1-2 hours from US Eastern.
Colombia
UTC-5, on US Eastern time for most of the year.
Mexico
UTC-6, aligned with US Central.
Chile
UTC-3 to UTC-4 depending on season, close to US Eastern.
How Greelow vets LATAM engineers
Technical filter
Real project history and architecture decisions, reviewed before a profile reaches your shortlist - not a resume of tools.
AI-native filter
Every engineer is assessed on a live task using Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot as part of vetting, not a self-reported checklist.
English and overlap filter
Spoken English and full working-day availability against US Eastern are verified before you ever see the profile.
What LATAM developers cost compared to US hires
A senior LATAM developer at Greelow costs $5,000 to $9,000 per month, all-inclusive by seniority - versus roughly $14,000 to $22,000 per month loaded for an equivalent senior hire in the US. The rate includes salary, benefits, equipment and payroll compliance.
Senior LATAM developer
$5,000–$9,000/mo
All-inclusive, by seniority
Equivalent US senior hire
$14,000–$22,000/mo
Loaded cost: salary, benefits, equity, taxes, equipment
Work LATAM engineers at Greelow have shipped
Chopra Foundation
Meditation & Wellbeing App
Built the Chopra mobile app end-to-end - meditation library, self-care tools, and expert-led content - with a multi-disciplinary squad over 18 months.
OneReach.ai
Enterprise Conversational AI Platform
Embedded a dedicated team inside a conversational-AI platform that shipped NLP pipelines, IVR systems, and LLM integrations end to end.
Greenpeace
Mobile App for Supporter Engagement
Shipped the Greenpeace supporter app that lifted engagement 25% and boosted donor acquisition - MERN stack, 15 months, four-person squad.
Bineo
How we shipped the Bineo neobank app for Banorte
Designed, built, and delivered Bineo's mobile banking app for Grupo Financiero Banorte - full retail scope, first-party design system, and delivery discipline built for scale.
Common questions
- Buenos Aires is 1-2 hours ahead of US Eastern: one hour during US daylight saving time and two hours in winter, because Argentina stays on UTC-3 all year. That leaves a full working day of overlap with teams anywhere in the continental US.
- Greelow engineers are assessed on spoken English as part of vetting and work day-to-day in English with US teams. Standups, code review and written documentation all happen in English.
- Between $5,000 and $9,000 per month, all-inclusive, depending on seniority - versus roughly $14,000 to $22,000 per month loaded for an equivalent senior hire in the US. The rate includes salary, benefits, equipment and payroll compliance.
- Greelow does. You sign a monthly services agreement with Greelow LLC in Florida and receive a single US invoice; there is no foreign payroll, contractor classification risk or local entity to set up on your side.
- You do. IP assignment is part of the standard agreement with the US entity, and engineers sign corresponding assignment terms.
- Greelow employs its engineers and assigns them to one client team, rather than matching freelancers per project. That is why the average client relationship runs over three years, and why the same engineer stays on your codebase.