Hire .NET developers in Brazil

How much does it cost to hire a .NET developer in Brazil?

A senior .NET engineer from Brazil costs $4,900 per month, full time. .NET is a quiet advantage in this market: U.S. demand is steady and heavily enterprise, U.S. supply is tight, and Brazil has a large C# population working in ERP, logistics and industrial software.

What you compareU.S. hireThrough HireBrazilDevs
Monthly cost, senior $14,150 loaded $4,900
Recruiting fee15–25% of first-year salaryNone
Time to first candidates3–6 weeks5–15 business days
Notice periodAt-will, plus severance in practice30 days
Payroll and benefitsYours to runOne invoice

U.S. figure: BLS median for software developers ($133,080, May 2024) adjusted by our estimated multiplier for .NET (1.02×), plus 25% for payroll tax and benefits. The BLS figure is official; the multiplier is our estimate. Full methodology.

Why Brazil for .NET

Brazilian ERP, tax and logistics software is overwhelmingly .NET — the compliance burden of Brazilian tax law created an entire industry of C# systems that cannot be wrong. Engineers from that background bring an instinct for data integrity and audit trails that transfers directly to U.S. finance, healthcare and supply-chain work.

What a .NET engineer will own

  • ASP.NET Core APIs and services, including the migration off .NET Framework
  • Entity Framework performance and the queries it silently makes terrible
  • Azure deployment, Functions and the CI/CD around them
  • Integration with SQL Server, message queues and the legacy system you cannot replace yet

How we screen .NET developers

Every candidate goes through the same three checks before you see the profile.

  1. Async/await misuse — find the deadlock in code they have not seen
  2. Translate a slow LINQ query into what SQL it actually generates
  3. Plan a .NET Framework to .NET 8 migration for a system that cannot stop

Stack they typically work with

C#ASP.NET CoreEntity FrameworkSQL ServerAzurexUnitBlazor

Related skills

Teams that hire .NET developers usually pair them with one of these. The rate is the same for all of them.

Pricing

Mid-level engineer

3–5 years of experience

$3,500 /month

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%.

Tech lead / staff engineer

10+ years of experience

$6,400 /month

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%.

Frequently asked questions

We are on .NET Framework 4.8. Is that a problem?

No — it is common and we staff for it specifically. Be aware that the migration and the feature work compete for the same engineer, so decide which one you are actually buying before the contract starts.

Tell us the role. We come back with candidates.

A 20-minute call to scope the role, then vetted profiles within five business days. No fee to talk, no retainer, no exclusivity.

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