Hire senior Brazilian developers for your U.S. team
Full-time, dedicated engineers who work your hours — not a night shift, not a ticket queue. Flat monthly rate, month-to-month, vetted candidates in five business days.
Brazil is UTC−3 all year — one to two hours ahead of New York, four to five ahead of Los Angeles. Engineers work your business hours.
// domain/timezone.js — real source of this page export function overlapHours({ zone, brStart = 9, brEnd = 18 }) { const brStartUtc = brStart - BRAZIL_UTC_OFFSET; const brEndUtc = brEnd - BRAZIL_UTC_OFFSET; const usStartUtc = 9 - zone.offset; const usEndUtc = 17 - zone.offset; return Math.max(0, Math.min(brEndUtc, usEndUtc) - Math.max(brStartUtc, usStartUtc));} overlapHours({ zone: SAO_PAULO_TO_NYC }) // 7 hours sharedoverlapHours({ zone: BANGALORE_TO_NYC }) // 0HireBrazilDevs places senior Brazilian software engineers on North American product teams as full-time dedicated contractors. Pricing is a flat monthly rate per engineer — $3,500 mid-level, $4,900 senior, $6,400 tech lead — with no recruiting fee. Brazil is UTC−3, one to two hours ahead of New York, so engineers work your business hours.
Senior engineer, per month, full time
Daily overlap with U.S. Eastern time
To first vetted candidates
Notice period, both directions
What you are actually buying
- Engineers work U.S. business hours, not overnight shifts.
- Brazil is UTC−3: one to two hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time, year round.
- Pricing is a flat monthly rate per engineer, published on the site.
- Contracts are month to month with 30 days notice and no recruiting fee.
- Engineers are contractors of HireBrazilDevs, not of the client — no Brazilian entity needed.
- First vetted candidates are presented within 5 business days for common stacks — scarcer ones such as Go, iOS or Vue take ten to fifteen, and we tell you which yours is before you send the brief. Each candidate records a short video (2–3 minutes, in English) answering it.
- Everything happens in writing, with a reply within one business day; there are no sales calls, and the only calls in the process are the client's own interviews with the engineers.
Engineers in our network
Real people who passed our screening or worked with us, shown with their permission. Scroll sideways to see each profile.
Pricing, published
One flat monthly rate per engineer. No recruiting fee, no placement fee, no percentage of salary, no annual minimum. The comparison column is a U.S. hire’s loaded cost — base salary plus 25% for payroll tax and benefits — because comparing against base salary alone would flatter us unfairly.
Mid-level engineer
3–5 years of experience
Full time · about $22/hour equivalent
Ships well-scoped features independently. Needs a defined backlog.
U.S. equivalent costs about $12,604/month loaded — you save 72%.
Senior engineer
6–10 years of experience
Full time · about $31/hour equivalent
Owns a service or product area end to end. Reviews others’ code.
U.S. equivalent costs about $16,458/month loaded — you save 70%.
Tech lead / staff engineer
10+ years of experience
Full time · about $40/hour equivalent
Sets architecture, leads a squad, interfaces with your stakeholders.
U.S. equivalent costs about $19,896/month loaded — you save 68%.
The same numbers, drawn
Grey is what a U.S. hire costs you each month. Teal is us.
The time zone, in one picture
This is the whole argument. A team on U.S. Eastern time, an engineer in Brazil, and an engineer in India — all three on ordinary local working hours, nobody asked to change anything.
Every zone, in numbers
Brazil dropped daylight saving in 2019 and sits at UTC−3 all year, so the gap moves only when the U.S. changes clocks. The third column is what you get by default. The fourth is what you get if the engineer agrees to work later — which is a favour to ask, not a feature to assume.
| Your time zone | Brazil is ahead by | Overlap on normal hours 9 AM – 6 PM in Brazil | Overlap if they shift |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Eastern | 1–2 hours | 7–8 hours | 8 hours
10 AM – 7 PM in Brazil |
| U.S. Central | 2–3 hours | 6–7 hours | 8 hours
11 AM – 8 PM in Brazil |
| U.S. Mountain | 3–4 hours | 5–6 hours | 7–8 hours
11 AM – 8 PM in Brazil |
| U.S. Pacific | 4–5 hours | 4–5 hours | 6–7 hours
11 AM – 8 PM in Brazil |
Read the third column, not the fourth. On ordinary hours a Pacific-time team shares 4–5 hours, not a full day. Getting to 6–7 means the engineer works until 8 PM their time — which is a real thing to ask of someone, so it should be a decision you make on purpose rather than a number we quote you. How to schedule around it →
Hire by skill
Every stack below has a page with rates, what the engineer will own, and how we screen for it.
Front-end
Quality
Platforms
Work out the numbers yourself
Both calculators run in your browser, print the full data underneath, and never ask for an email.
Deciding between options?
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Guides
How to hire Brazilian developers
How do I hire a software developer in Brazil?
How to pay Brazilian developers from a U.S. company
How do U.S. companies pay developers in Brazil?
Brazil time zone for U.S. teams
What is the time difference between Brazil and the United States?
How good is the English of Brazilian developers, really?
Do Brazilian software developers speak English?
IP ownership and NDAs when working with Brazilian developers
Who owns the code a Brazilian contractor writes for my company?
Onboarding a nearshore engineer
How do I onboard a remote engineer in another country?
From the blog
Written from the studio floor: costs, contracts, time zones and the paperwork.
Vetting
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Every vendor calls its screening rigorous. Five questions, sent in one email, that separate a real funnel from a resume forwarding service.
Contracts
Switching Nearshore Vendors Without Losing Engineers
Keep the engineer, change the supplier. The five clauses to read, the order that makes the notice period your overlap, and when staying is cheaper.
Contracts
When a 90-Day Guarantee Is Worse Than 30
A ninety-day replacement window can be worth less than thirty. What decides it: which day the clock starts, what the term locks you into, and what it never covers.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to hire a Brazilian developer?
Through HireBrazilDevs, $3,500 per month for a mid-level engineer, $4,900 for a senior and $6,400 for a tech lead — full time, dedicated, billed monthly. There is no recruiting fee and no minimum term beyond 30 days notice.
What is the time difference between Brazil and the United States?
Brazil’s business time zone is UTC−3 and does not observe daylight saving. São Paulo is one hour ahead of New York in U.S. summer and two hours ahead in U.S. winter, and four to five hours ahead of Los Angeles.
Do I need a legal entity in Brazil?
No. The engineers are contracted by HireBrazilDevs, and you receive a single monthly invoice for services, the same as from any other vendor. No Brazilian entity, no payroll, no benefits administration.
How fast can you present candidates?
Five business days for common stacks — React, Node, Python, Java, .NET, mobile. Ten to fifteen for scarcer ones such as Go, Elixir or specialized machine learning. We tell you which category your role is in with our first written reply.
What happens if the engineer is not a good fit?
Tell us within the first 30 days and we replace them, and you are not billed for the overlap. After that, standard 30 days notice applies in both directions.
Do the engineers work only for us?
Yes. Every engineer is full time and dedicated to one client. We do not split people across accounts, which is the practice that makes a "dedicated team" quietly stop being dedicated.
Tell us the role. We come back with candidates.
Send the role in writing, get a written scope back within one business day, then vetted profiles within five. No sales call, no fee to ask, no retainer, no exclusivity.