You get engineers, analysts and support people who are awake when your team is awake, employed on real local contracts, and screened against your rubric — not ours.
Here is the Monday we keep hearing about: the backend role has been reposted three times, CVs get read at 11pm, and the one finalist you actually liked lives in São Paulo and can't be paid because there is no entity there. We take that whole mess off your desk. Intake call on Tuesday, calibrated shortlist by the end of the week, contracts and payroll handled out of our office in Mexico City.
The region graduates far more engineers, accountants and bilingual support specialists than its own employers absorb. Nobody in Guadalajara is short of Ruby developers. What stops US managers is everything that happens after "we'd like to make an offer".
RFC and IMSS registration in Mexico. Contrato a término indefinido or fijo in Colombia. Monotributo versus relación de dependencia in Argentina. CLT versus PJ in Brazil. Pick the wrong one after the shortlist and roughly a third of candidates walk.
How we decide itCFDI 4.0 stamping, INFONAVIT filings, aguinaldo in December, PTU in May, prima vacacional, the Colombian prima and cesantías calendar. Your finance team should never have to learn any of this. Ours already did.
Payroll and contractsA candidate can pass a written test and still stall in a live standup. We run a spoken calibration — a 20-minute unscripted call about their last incident or their last close — and grade it against how your team actually talks.
What we screen forWe don't sell "LatAm" as one blob. Notice periods, currencies, severance and time zones differ enough that the country choice usually decides your hire date. Start where the overlap and the band match your role.
CST/CDT most of the year. Payroll seats via our Mexico City entity. Notice is short — most people leave in two weeks.
Mexico detail ColombiaBogotá and Medellín track US Eastern in winter and Central in summer. Indefinite contracts, 15-day notice by custom.
Colombia detail BrazilSão Paulo, Florianópolis, Recife. CLT or PJ, 30-day aviso prévio, the largest senior pool in the region.
Brazil detail ArgentinaBuenos Aires and Córdoba. Mostly monotributo contractors paid in USD, with the FX rules that come with it.
Argentina detailIn that order, every time. Deciding the payment vehicle after you have a favourite candidate is the most expensive mistake in this business.
Your hiring manager, one of our recruiters, and a screen share of the job description. We rewrite the requirements that will not survive the market, agree a band in local currency, and pick the country and contract type before anyone is sourced.
Sourcing, English calibration, and a technical screen run against your own rubric. You get four to six people with written screen notes, salary expectations and notice periods, not a stack of CVs.
We work in Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby — your instance, your stages, your scorecards. Offer letters go out in the local language with the gross-to-net breakdown attached, so nobody is surprised on payday.
Contract signature, social security registration, equipment logistics, first-day access. Then monthly payroll, statutory benefits and the compliance calendar for as long as the person is on the team.
The most common "we can't find senior engineers" conversation is a salary conversation wearing a costume. A Ruby engineer with nine years in Guadalajara is not scarce; one who will accept a band set four years ago is. We put current numbers in front of you before the search, not after the third declined offer.
Four hours covers the standup and nothing else. It does not cover the pairing session at 3pm or the incident at 4:30. Mexico and Colombia give you a full shared working day, and that is the whole reason to hire in this hemisphere instead of across the Atlantic.
We closed a search last quarter by deleting a line instead of adding a candidate. The role ran one Kubernetes cluster and the description asked for five years of it. We showed the manager the four finalists that line had filtered out. He hired the second one.
Send the job description and the band you have approved. Within two business days you get a written read: which of the four countries fits, what that profile actually costs there right now, what contract type it needs, and how long the notice period will delay your start date.