Hire Full-Stack Developers From Latin America
Engineers who take a feature from database to UI on their own, in React, Node.js, TypeScript, .NET or Java. They overlap your workday, write clear English and cost around 60% less than a US hire. Onboarded in 21 days or less.
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Database to UI
Works US hours
- 4+ yrsaverage full-stack experience
- 10 daysto see vetted candidates
- 21 daysor less to a signed hire
- 1,100+engineers screened per role
Fast-growing AI and SaaS teams that hired through LatamCent
Find the Full-Stack Developer Your Roadmap Needs
Search by stack, language or tool, or start from the outcome you want. Add roles to the cost estimator to see the team's yearly cost in Latin America beside the US.
Nothing here matches that search. We recruit full-stack engineers on many stacks that aren't listed.
Describe the role you needCore full-stack languages 7 roles
Full-Stack Developer
Most requestedA generalist who builds features across the UI, API and database.
JavaScript Engineer
Most requestedUses one language from browser to server to move fast.
TypeScript Engineer
Most requestedBuilds typed apps end to end so refactors stay safe as the code grows.
.NET Full-Stack Engineer
Most requestedBuilds Microsoft-stack products from SQL Server to the browser.
Pairs a Spring Boot back end with a modern React or Angular front end.
Writes fast Go services with a lightweight web front end on top.
Builds high-performance apps in Rust, often with WebAssembly in the browser.
Stack specialists 4 roles
MERN Stack Engineer
Most requestedBuilds JavaScript apps on MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js.
Builds apps with MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node.js.
Builds fast sites on static generation, APIs and a headless CMS.
Ships light, fast apps with Svelte and SvelteKit.
Product & industry focus 6 roles
Full-Stack Mobile Engineer
Most requestedBuilds iOS and Android apps plus the APIs behind them.
Builds storefronts, checkout flows and order systems.
Builds payment, banking and ledger features with security and compliance in mind.
Builds browser and mobile games with the services behind them.
Builds immersive web and mobile experiences in AR and VR.
Connects devices to cloud back ends and dashboards.
Quality, performance & reliability 5 roles
QA Engineer
Most requestedBuilds automated tests across the UI and API to catch bugs before release.
Reviews pull requests to raise code quality and catch issues early.
Adds the logs, metrics and traces that show how your app behaves in production.
Speeds up slow pages, queries and APIs across the stack.
Prepares the app for 10x the users with caching, queues and smarter architecture.
Build, release & infrastructure 5 roles
Automates builds, tests and deploys so every merge can ship.
Keeps builds fast and reliable across large codebases and monorepos.
Plans and runs safe releases with feature flags and rollbacks.
Packages apps in containers so they run the same everywhere.
Sets up the cloud infrastructure your full-stack apps run on.
Integrations, data & docs 3 roles
Connects your product to CRMs, payment providers and partner APIs.
Builds the data pipelines and the dashboards that sit on top of them.
Writes the API references and guides that help developers integrate fast.
Technical leadership 2 roles
Leads a small team, owns architecture decisions and keeps delivery on track.
Prototypes new ideas and technologies before they reach the roadmap.
Your stack isn't on the list?
These are the full-stack profiles we're asked for most often, not the only ones we hire. Tell us the languages, frameworks and level, and a Talent Partner will shape the search with you.
Need a specialist instead? See our front-end and back-end developers.
What Full-Stack Developers Ship for AI and SaaS Teams
The value of a full-stack hire is fewer handoffs. One person can take a ticket from the schema to the screen, and most of their week falls into these four buckets.
Features end to end
Writes the migration, the API endpoint and the React screen for a feature, then ships it behind a flag.
New products & MVPs
Stands up a new app or AI feature quickly, choosing a stack the rest of the team can maintain later.
Integrations & payments
Connects your product to Stripe, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and LLM APIs, with webhooks and retries that don't lose data.
Quality & deploys
Writes unit and end-to-end tests, keeps CI green and watches the release in production after it ships.
Full-Stack vs Front-End vs Back-End vs Tech Lead
A quick way to decide whether you need one generalist, a specialist, or someone to lead them.
| Compare | Full-stack developer | Front-end developer | Back-end developer | Technical lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main job | Ships whole features across UI, API and database | Builds the screens and client-side logic | Builds APIs, data models and services | Sets direction, reviews code and unblocks the team |
| Strongest when | The team is small and speed matters | The UI is complex or design-heavy | Data, scale or integrations are hard | Several engineers need one technical owner |
| Typical stack | React or Vue, Node.js or .NET, Postgres | React, TypeScript, CSS, testing tools | Node.js, Python, Java or Go, cloud | Whatever your team runs, plus architecture |
| Hire first when | You need one person to own a roadmap area | Designs are piling up unbuilt | The back end is the bottleneck | You have 3 or more engineers and no senior owner |
Why US Teams Hire Full-Stack Developers in Latin America
Full-stack engineers touch everything, so they're in more conversations than anyone: product, design, support and the rest of engineering. That only works when they're online when everyone else is.
- Questions answered the same dayA product question at 10am gets an answer by lunch, not after a 12-hour round trip.
- Support escalations handled liveWhen a customer reports a bug, the developer who built the feature can reproduce and fix it during your business day.
- Generalists with startup experienceThe region has a deep pool of engineers used to wearing several hats on small product teams.
Picking a country? See our country-by-country hiring guides.
- Mexico City8 of 9 hrs
- Bogotá9 of 9 hrs
- Santiago7 of 9 hrs
- Buenos Aires7 of 9 hrs
- São Paulo7 of 9 hrs
Each city works a regular 9am to 6pm local day here. When US daylight saving time is on, the overlap moves by about an hour.
Full-Stack Developer Salaries: Latin America vs the US
The average full-stack developer in Latin America earns about $54K a year. In the US, a similar engineer averages roughly $135K.
For a lean product team
Three full-stack developers run about $405K a year in US salaries and close to $162K in Latin America. Model your own team in the cost estimator.
These averages come from the top half of salaries for generalist, stack-specialist and DevOps-leaning full-stack roles in the region. Cloud architects and staff engineers earn more. Considering an H-1B hire too? Compare both in our H-1B vs nearshore ROI calculator.
How to Hire a Full-Stack Developer: What Matters
Plenty of developers call themselves full-stack. Here's how to tell who can really own a feature, whether you hire with us or not.
What to test
Breadth is the point, but each layer needs real depth.
- Data modeling. Designs tables and relationships that won't need a rewrite in six months.
- API design. Clean endpoints, validation, auth and sensible error handling.
- Front-end craft. Accessible, responsive components and sane state management.
- Testing. A mix of unit, integration and end-to-end tests that run in CI.
- Shipping. Has deployed their own work and handled what broke afterwards.
- Product sense. Asks why a feature matters and suggests a simpler version when it helps.
Signs they're not really full-stack
We filter these out before you see a profile.
- Strong on one side, but goes vague on the other as soon as you ask a follow-up.
- Every project starts from a template and never reaches production.
- Has never written a database migration by hand.
- Treats testing and deployment as someone else's job.
- Picks the newest framework for every problem.
Six questions that test both ends of the stack
Plus what to listen for in each answer.
- Pick a feature you built alone. Walk me from the database to the UI.Listen for: schema choices, API shape, front-end state, tests and how it was released.
- A page is slow. How do you tell if it's the front end or the back end?Listen for: network waterfall, server timing, query logs and profiling before guessing.
- How would you add Stripe subscriptions to an existing app?Listen for: webhooks, idempotency, syncing plan state and handling failed payments.
- Where do you put business rules: client, server or database?Listen for: server as the source of truth, validation on both sides, and why.
- You have two weeks to ship an MVP. What do you cut?Listen for: clear priorities, boring proven tools and a plan to clean up later.
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with a product decision.Listen for: a respectful pushback, data or user reasoning, and committing once decided.
From Brief to Full-Stack Hire in 3 Weeks
Talent Partners who fill full-stack roles every week run your search, so they test both ends of the stack instead of matching keywords.
Kickoff & sourcing
With the agreement and retainer done, we agree on your stack, level and hours, then approach 1,100 to 1,700 full-stack engineers who fit the brief.
Front-to-back vetting
Candidates take a technical screen, a live coding exercise across front end and back end, an English test and reference checks. Expect the first 3 to 5 profiles around day 10.
Decision & first commit
You interview the finalists and choose. We handle the contract, payroll and IP assignment, so your developer can pick up a ticket in their first week.
Two Ways to Bring On Full-Stack Developers
The only difference is who employs your developer. Sourcing, vetting and the 21-day timeline are identical.
| Option | Talent as a Service | Direct Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Legal employer | LatamCent, as contractor of record | Your company |
| Local contracts, payroll, compliance | Run by LatamCent | Run by your team |
| When a hire doesn't work out | Unlimited replacements | Replacement guarantee |
| Ideal for | Adding engineers without setting up abroad | Teams that already employ in Latin America |
LatamCent makes nearshoring feel like an
extension of your AI team
I was blown away because LatamCent was able to find more than one qualified candidate who met all of it. It turned out it wasn’t a unicorn, at least not for you.
As our engineering team in Brazil grew, finding developers with the right experience became difficult.
We had reached a point where contractors were slowing us down instead of helping us scale.
I always say there’s no Steve Jobs without Steve Wozniak, and that’s what this hire became for us.
LatamCent made hiring engineers simple.
We needed to scale our engineering and delivery teams fast without sacrificing quality.
Hiring Full-Stack Developers From Latin America
Have something specific to ask? Message our team and a Talent Partner will reply.
Send us your stack, the seniority you need and what the developer will own. Talent Partners source candidates across the region, and each one completes a technical screen, a live coding exercise that covers front end and back end, an English test and reference checks. You interview a vetted shortlist and typically sign your hire within 21 days.
Expect an average salary near $54K a year in Latin America versus about $135K in the US, a difference of roughly $81K per developer each year. Tech leads and cloud-heavy profiles cost more; generalists sit near the average.
Often, yes. Early teams usually need one person who can ship a whole feature without waiting on someone else. As the product grows, many companies add front-end and back-end specialists around their first full-stack engineers.
The most common are MERN and MEAN, Next.js with Node.js, TypeScript end to end, .NET with React or Angular, and Java with Spring Boot. We also recruit for Go, Rust, Svelte and Jamstack, plus React Native and Flutter for mobile.
Plan on about three weeks. You'll usually see the first 3 to 5 vetted profiles around day 10, then interviews and your decision take another one to two weeks.
Yes. They work from Latin American time zones that cover most or all of the US workday, so they join standups, product discussions and support escalations live.
Juniors with 1 to 2 years take on scoped tasks, mid-level engineers with 3 to 5 years can run a feature solo, seniors with 6 to 8 years shape architecture and mentor, and tech leads with 9+ years run a team and its technical direction.
A full-stack developer works across the interface, the API, the database and deployment, so one person can own a feature. A front-end developer goes deeper on the UI, and a back-end developer goes deeper on data and services. Specialists make sense once a single layer becomes the bottleneck.
Freelancers fit a short project with a fixed scope. When the work is your core product, a full-time developer who knows your codebase, customers and roadmap moves faster over time and owns the results. LatamCent places full-time developers who join your team.
Yes. A common setup is three full-stack developers, or a technical lead with two full-stack engineers and a QA engineer. Sketch it in the cost estimator on this page and send it over with the request form.
The role finder shows the full-stack profiles we're asked for most, not the full list of what we hire. Share the languages, frameworks and level you need and we'll build the search around them.
We restart the search and replace them. You get unlimited replacements on Talent as a Service and a replacement guarantee on Direct Hire.
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