Looking for nearshore backend development? Rad Hires recruits senior backend developers across Latin America for US startups. Instead of handing your APIs and data to an agency, you add dedicated engineers to your team who work your hours and own your systems. Most clients hire in 2–4 weeks for 40–60% less than a comparable US developer.
Nearshore backend agency vs. dedicated backend developers
- A nearshore development company builds backend features as a project. It can suit a fixed scope, but your architecture knowledge lives with the vendor.
- Dedicated backend developers join your team, understand your data and keep your services reliable over time.
- Rad Hires helps you with the second option. We recruit the developers, and they work directly with you, either as your direct hire or through our managed Talent On-Demand service, where we contract and pay them for you.
Why Latin America for backend development?
- Real-time collaboration. Latin American developers are 0–2 hours from US Eastern time, so incidents, deploys and design reviews happen during your day.
- Senior talent at 40–60% less. You can afford engineers who have built and scaled production systems.
- Every major stack. We recruit across the technologies US startups use most.
Backend stacks you can hire for
- Python and Django, including FastAPI.
- Node.js with Express, NestJS or serverless.
- Java with Spring Boot.
- Go for high-performance services.
- Cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
How hiring with Rad Hires works
- Kickoff call. We learn the backend role, your stack, your team and your budget, and agree on what a great hire looks like.
- Sourcing and screening. Our recruiters search our Latin America network and screen candidates for skills, experience, communication and fit, so you only see people worth your time.
- Your shortlist and interviews. You interview the best candidates and choose who to hire. We coordinate scheduling and feedback.
- Offer and onboarding. We help you close the candidate and get them started.
- 90-day replacement guarantee. If the hire doesn’t work out in the first 90 days, we find you a replacement.
Want to hire the developer onto your own team? Use Direct Hire. Prefer a flexible, fully managed arrangement? Use Talent On-Demand.
What does a Latin American backend developer cost?
Cost depends mostly on seniority and the exact skills you need. Our clients typically pay 40–60% less than for a comparable US hire. Two real examples:
- A US startup hired a senior engineer in Argentina for $8.7k a month, about half the cost of a US equivalent, working full time in the client’s time zone.
- A US digital agency staffed several senior roles for about $40 an hour on average.
On a short consultation call, we’ll give you a realistic budget for your backend developer role.
What to look for in a backend developer
- API design: clear, versioned REST or GraphQL APIs with authentication and validation.
- Databases: data modeling, SQL performance, migrations and caching.
- Reliability: logging, monitoring, alerting and handling failures gracefully.
- Security: protecting data, managing secrets and following least-privilege access.
- Testing and deployment: automated tests, CI/CD, Docker and cloud hosting.
- Communication: clear English for design discussions and incident calls.
Interview questions to ask a backend developer
- How would you design an API that mobile and web clients both depend on?
- Tell me about a slow database query you fixed. How did you find it?
- How do you roll out a database change without downtime?
- What do you monitor in production, and how do you get alerted?
- Tell me about an outage you handled. What did you change afterward?
Frequently asked questions
Most clients hire in 2–4 weeks from the kickoff call.
Yes. Latin American developers are 0–2 hours from US Eastern time for most of the year, so working your core hours is normal.
Every hire comes with a 90-day replacement guarantee.
We recruit across Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Costa Rica.
Ready to hire a backend developer?
Tell us about the role, and we’ll show you what’s possible with a Latin American hire, including a realistic budget and timeline.