Guadalajara · Mexico City · Same working day

Nearshore IT staffing and staff augmentation, in your standup at 9am.

Engineers, mobile developers, QA, DevOps and technical support, recruited from the Guadalajara and Mexico City markets and employed legally under our own REPSE registration. They work inside your process, your repository and your roadmap, on Central time, and the employment, payroll and compliance sit with us.

10-15dTo an evaluated shortlist
UTC−6Central time, same working day
REPSEEmployed legally, not contracted
Direct question, direct answer

What is nearshore staff augmentation?

Staff augmentation means adding engineers to your existing team rather than handing a project to an agency. The people report into your leads, join your standups and work in your repository; the provider handles finding them, employing them, paying them and keeping the arrangement legal. Nearshore means they sit in a nearby country on a compatible time zone, which for companies in the United States and Canada generally means Mexico. The practical test of whether it is working is simple: if your engineering manager treats them differently from anyone else on the team, it is not augmentation, it is an outsourced project with extra steps.

Profiles we recruit

The technical roles that move nearshore well.

Not every role does. The ones that need constant hallway context with a founder tend to struggle anywhere remote, nearshore included.

Software engineers

Backend, frontend and full stack across the mainstream stacks. Evaluated on a practical exercise relevant to your codebase rather than on a generic algorithm screen.

Mid to senior, individual contributors

Mobile developers

iOS, Android and cross-platform. A well-supplied profile in the Guadalajara market, where a long-established mobile industry has produced a genuine talent pool rather than a handful of candidates.

Native and cross-platform

QA and test engineering

Manual and automation. One of the roles where the time zone overlap pays off most obviously, because a failed build at 4pm gets triaged the same afternoon instead of the next morning.

Manual, automation, SDET

DevOps and infrastructure

CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability and platform work. Scarcer and more expensive than application engineering here, as everywhere, and we will say so before you budget for it.

Scarce profile, plan lead time

Technical support

Tier 1 and 2 support covering North American business hours from a compatible time zone, which removes the night shift premium and the retention problem that comes with it.

Business hours, no night shift

Data and back office

Data engineering and analysis, plus finance and administrative support functions that companies increasingly move nearshore alongside the engineering team rather than separately.

Often the second wave
Direct question, direct answer

Staff augmentation or outsource the project?

Project outsourcing transfers the outcome: you describe what you want, an agency builds it with its own process, and hands it back. Staff augmentation transfers capacity: the engineers work inside your process, your repo and your roadmap. Augmentation gives you more control and demands more management attention. Project outsourcing gives you less of both. Teams with a clear roadmap but no engineering management bandwidth usually want the project route. Teams with strong leads and a hiring bottleneck want augmentation. Choosing augmentation without the leads to direct it is the single most common way these engagements disappoint.

Dimension Project outsourcing Staff augmentation
Who sets priorities The agency, against a spec. Your leads, week to week.
Management load on you Low. Real. They are your team.
Knowledge retention Leaves with the agency. Stays, if you retain the people.
Best when Defined scope, no bandwidth to manage. Ongoing roadmap, strong leads, hiring is the bottleneck.
What we provide Not our service. Recruiting, employment, payroll, compliance.

We do augmentation, not project delivery. If what you actually need is someone to own an outcome end to end, we are not the right supplier and would rather say so now.

Frequently asked

Questions from engineering leaders.

Do the engineers actually speak English?
Commonly yes at professional and technical levels, but it varies enough by individual that we screen it explicitly and report the real working level per candidate. We will not describe a team as bilingual to win a deal. Overstating this is one of the more common ways a nearshore engagement starts badly and it is entirely avoidable.
How long to get someone started?
Ten to fifteen business days to an evaluated shortlist for most profiles, longer for DevOps and specialized infrastructure work, which is a scarce profile here as it is everywhere. Onboarding and employment paperwork run in parallel once you select.
Who owns the code they write?
You do, provided the assignment is written explicitly in the contract chain. Because the engineers are legally employed by us, the intellectual property assignment has to flow from the employee to us to you, and it needs to be drafted rather than assumed. Mexican law treats work product created in an employment relationship on its own terms and a ported home-country template is not sufficient.
Can we hire them directly later?
Yes. Conversion is normal and we would rather structure it up front than have it happen awkwardly. Terms are defined in the proposal so nobody is renegotiating at the moment someone wants to make an offer.
What does it cost compared to hiring in the United States?
Meaningfully less, though we quote a fully loaded cost including contributions, statutory benefits and the fee so you compare a real number against your real number rather than a base salary against a total. The honest framing is that the reason to do this is the time zone overlap and the talent depth; the cost difference is what makes it easy to approve.
Next step

Tell us the stack, the seniority and how many.

You get a realistic salary band for that profile in that market, the fully loaded cost, a time to shortlist and the screening plan. A consultant replies within two business hours.