Nearshore software development
Nearshore software development with engineers who use AI every day
Greelow is a nearshore software development company operating from Buenos Aires since 2017, with a US entity in Florida. We embed senior engineers directly into your team - engineers who use Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot in their daily workflow, not as a badge. You get full working-day overlap with US Eastern and one flat monthly rate per engineer.
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Clutch 5.0 RatedWhat is nearshore software development?
Nearshore software development is the practice of hiring an engineering team in a country close to your own time zone, rather than one twelve hours away. For US companies that means Latin America. The difference from offshore is not cost - it is that your engineers are online when you are, so code review, standups and incident response happen in real time instead of overnight.
It also differs from hiring locally and from a marketplace. A US hire takes two to three months of interviews before a single line ships; Greelow's shortlist is ready in three business days and the engineer is productive in seven. A marketplace matches a freelancer per project and rotates; Greelow employs its engineers on one team, and the average client relationship runs over three years.
Prefer a hands-off engagement instead of embedding into your team? See how nearshore staff augmentation works, or go straight to hire nearshore developers, LATAM developers or the full catalog of roles.
What's included with every engineer
Senior engineer, full-time on your team
Averages 8+ years. Owns their work end to end.
AI-tool proficiency, verified before day one
Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot, assessed in vetting - not self-reported.
Contract, payroll, benefits, equipment
One legal entity, one monthly invoice.
IP assignment and NDA
Signed before day one.
Replacement guarantee
If it isn't working, we replace the engineer at no additional cost.
Who we build for
Series B+ startups scaling fast
You need to add senior capacity without lowering your bar, and US hiring timelines don't match your runway.
Teams of 50-500 with a capacity gap
You need specialized seniority for a defined stretch, not a permanent headcount increase.
Technical founders who need engineers now
You need 1-3 senior engineers shipping this month, not a three-month hiring process.
How an engagement starts
Day 1
Discovery call
Stack, scale, and the gap you need to close.
48 hours
Shortlist
2-4 profiles matched to your stack, ready within three business days.
Days 3-4
Your interviews
You run the interview, your rubric, your call.
Day 7
Productive engineer
Onboarded to your repo, tools and standups - shipping by day seven.
What nearshore software development costs
A senior nearshore engineer at Greelow costs between $5,000 and $9,000 per month, all-inclusive, depending on seniority. That single rate covers salary, benefits, equipment, payroll compliance and our management overhead - there are no recruitment fees, setup fees or per-hire minimums. More senior and specialized profiles sit at the top of the band; mid-level profiles at the floor.
Mid-level engineer
$5,000/mo
Floor of the band
Senior engineer
$5,000–$7,000/mo
8+ years typical
Staff / Principal / Specialist
$7,000–$9,000/mo
10+ years or specialized
How our engineers actually use AI
This is the part most nearshore vendors gesture at and few can show. Every Greelow engineer runs Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot as part of their actual production workflow - not a tool they were told to mention in a sales call.
Claude Code, on our own production code
We run it internally before we place engineers who use it on yours - not a claim we haven't tested ourselves.
Cursor in the writing loop
Feature work, refactors and reviews move through Cursor daily, not as a novelty.
Verified in vetting, not self-reported
Every engineer is assessed on a live task using these tools as part of hiring - you don't take our word for it.
Nearshore vs. offshore vs. hiring in-house
Greelow (nearshore) | Offshore (Asia/EE) | In-house US | |
|---|---|---|---|
Overlap with US Eastern | 1-2 hours, full working day | 8-12 hours, mostly async | Full |
Time to productive | 7 business days | 4-8 weeks | 8-14 weeks |
Cost per engineer / month | $5,000-$9,000 all-inclusive | $3,000-$6,000 + management overhead | $14,000-$22,000 loaded |
AI-native workflow | Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, daily | Varies, rarely verified | Depends on hire |
Contract entity | US LLC (Florida) | Foreign entity | Domestic |
Team stability | 3+ years average client relationship | High rotation | Low rotation |
The stack we work in
Frontend
Mobile
Backend
AI/ML
Cloud/DevOps
Data
Work we 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
- Nearshore means your engineering team works in a time zone within a few hours of yours; offshore means a difference of eight hours or more. Greelow engineers work from Buenos Aires, which is 1-2 hours from US Eastern with no daylight saving shift, so a full working day overlaps with US teams. Offshore models typically trade that overlap for a lower headline rate.
- A senior nearshore engineer at Greelow costs $5,000 to $9,000 per month, all-inclusive, by seniority. The rate covers salary, benefits, equipment and payroll compliance, with no recruitment or setup fees.
- Greelow operates from Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a US legal entity registered in Florida. The team is distributed across Latin America, and contracts are signed with the US entity.
- Every engineer is assessed on a live task using Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot as part of vetting, not on a self-reported checklist. Greelow runs the same tooling internally on its own production code.
- Seven business days from signed agreement to a productive engineer, including onboarding to your repo, tooling and standups. Shortlists are typically ready within three business days of the discovery call.
- Greelow is an agency of around 40 engineers and staff, not a marketplace. Engineers are employed and managed by Greelow and stay with one client team - the average client relationship runs over three years.