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Hire Developers in Brazil: Full-Time, Tested, on Your Hours

Brazilian software engineers who join your team, not an agency’s. Every finalist passes live coding and a take-home task for your stack, works only for you, and starts the day an hour or two before New York.

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$ talentige hire --country brazil --role developer
timezone   UTC−3 all year (no daylight saving since 2019)
overlap    your whole US Eastern day, starting 1–2 h ahead
pay        $1,400–$2,900 / month by seniority and stack
vetting    live coding · take-home · tech interview · English
shortlist  3–5 finalists in about 20 days
guarantee  90-day replacement · pay nothing until you hire

How do I hire a developer in Brazil? Tell Talentige your stack, seniority and hours. We search Brazil’s tech hubs, test every candidate with live coding and a take-home task matched to your stack, and send you 3–5 finalists with their results in about 20 days. You run your own technical interview and choose. Your developer works full-time, only for you, as a contractor with IP assigned to you, and we handle the background check, contract and payment in your currency. No Brazilian entity needed.

Last updated: October 18, 2026 · By the Talentige recruitment team, recruiting international talent since 2015

Why Brazil keeps showing up on engineering shortlists

4×+Brazil more than quadrupled its developers on GitHub between 2020 and 2025 (GitHub Octoverse 2025).

19.6Mdevelopers projected on GitHub in Brazil by 2030, the third-largest community after India and the US (GitHub Octoverse 2025).

551English score of Brazilian IT professionals in the EF EPI 2025, against a 488 global average.

GitHub links much of Latin America’s developer growth to remote hiring by US and European firms, and Brazil to fintech and open-banking investment. For you that means a deep bench of engineers who have already worked on products at scale, in teams that ship in English.

Where we find Brazilian developers

We search nationally, but most senior engineers we meet cluster in a handful of hubs, all on Brasília time.

São Paulo and Campinas: the biggest pool of senior engineers and product people in the country.
Florianópolis, Curitiba and Porto Alegre: compact southern hubs with strong universities and the highest English scores.
Belo Horizonte and Brasília: solid engineering talent and growing product teams.
Recife: home to the Porto Digital technology park and a fast-growing developer community.

More on the country as a whole in our guide to hiring in Brazil.

Schematic map, not to scale. Dot size and colour show each city’s EF EPI 2025 English score.

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Tech hub	EF EPI 2025 English score
Florianópolis	577
Porto Alegre	570
Curitiba	556
Brasília	544
Belo Horizonte	541
Campinas	535
São Paulo	518
Recife	510
Global average	488

Your sprint, live: the hours overlap

Brazil doesn’t change its clocks, so only the US side moves. A Brazilian developer on a normal office day covers all of a US Eastern 9-to-5 and most of a Central one, and can review pull requests before your team logs on.

Bars show a 9 a.m.–5 p.m. US workday converted to Brasília time (UTC−3). Shaded area: a typical Brazilian office day. Your hire works the schedule you agree.

See the data as a table

Your team works 9 a.m.–5 p.m. in…	Brasília time, Nov–Mar	Brasília time, Mar–Nov
US Eastern (New York, Miami)	11:00–19:00	10:00–18:00
US Central (Chicago, Dallas)	12:00–20:00	11:00–19:00
US Pacific (San Francisco, Seattle)	14:00–22:00	13:00–21:00

Stacks we recruit for

Front-end, back-end, full-stack and mobile, junior to senior, plus QA and automation roles.

JavaScript / TypeScript and ReactFront-end and full-stack product work

NODE

Node.jsAPIs, services and integrations

PythonBack-end, data and automation

PHP

PHP / LaravelWeb apps and e-commerce back-ends

JAVA

Java and .NETEnterprise and long-lived systems

APP

MobileNative and cross-platform apps

QA and test automationCypress, Playwright or Selenium suites

AI and automationWorkflow automation and AI integrations

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What a Brazilian developer costs vs a US hire

Talentige figure: typical full-time monthly pay to your hire from our placements, before our fee. US figures: BLS May 2025 annual wage for software developers (25th percentile $105,210; median $135,980) × 1.43 for benefits and payroll costs (BLS ECEC, June 2026), divided by 12.

See the data as a table

Hire	Monthly cost (USD)	Annual (USD)
Developer through Talentige (pay to your hire)	$1,400–$2,900	$16,800–$34,800
US software developer, 25th-percentile wage, with overhead	About $12,538	About $150,450
US software developer, median wage, with overhead	About $16,204	About $194,450

One-time placement

Your employee. One-time fee.

Based on annual salary. Pay only when you hire. 90-day free replacement.

Month-to-Month

From $2,000/mo

All-inclusive, with international payroll, contracts and HR admin handled. Cancel anytime.

See pricing, or compare other roles and countries in the overseas hiring cost calculator.

From intake call to first commit

Day 0Intake call Stack, seniority, hours and how your team ships.
Days 1–19Sourcing and testing Live coding, take-home task matched to your stack, technical interview, written and oral English.
≈ Day 203–5 finalists With their test results, ready for your own technical interview.
Your pickOffer and paperwork Background check and a contract with IP assigned to you.
Start dayOnboarding Repo access, payment in your currency, Hubstaff time tracking.
Day 30Check-in We review progress with you and your developer; the 90-day replacement guarantee keeps running.

Every test result travels with the finalist, so your technical interview starts where ours stopped. Our full approach to engineering roles is on hire remote developers.

Your developer vs a Brazilian dev shop

Nearshore dev agency

The agency’s engineer, assigned to your project
Monthly or hourly markup for as long as they work for you
Knowledge leaves when the contract ends
Replacement depends on the contract

Talentige hire

Your developer, full-time, never shared
Pay plus our fee: one-time, or Month-to-Month from $2,000/mo
Stays in your team, your repos, your sprints
90-day replacement guarantee

Weighing freelancers or an employer of record too? Read EOR vs staffing agency vs Upwork. Hiring across the region? See Latin America, Argentina and Mexico.

Send us your stack. We’ll show you who we’d shortlist.

Tell us the role, seniority and hours, and we’ll come back with where we’d search and what Brazilian finalists typically earn.

Book a free hiring call →

Pay nothing until you hire · Live coding + take-home tested · 90-day replacement guarantee

Questions about hiring developers in Brazil

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

Full-time developers typically earn $1,400–$2,900 a month through Talentige, depending on seniority and stack. A US software developer costs about $16,200 a month at the median wage once benefits and payroll costs are added (BLS). With One-time placement you pay a fee based on annual salary, only when you hire; Month-to-Month starts from $2,000 a month, all-inclusive.

What time zone are Brazilian developers in?

The main tech hubs, including São Paulo, Campinas, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte and Brasília, are on Brasília time, UTC−3, all year; Brazil abolished daylight saving time in 2019. That is two hours ahead of New York from November to March and one hour ahead from March to November. Your developer works the hours you set.

Do Brazilian developers speak English?

The ones you'll meet do. Brazilian IT professionals score 551 in the EF English Proficiency Index 2025, against a 488 global average, and Florianópolis (577), Porto Alegre (570) and Curitiba (556) lead the country. Every Talentige candidate also passes our written and oral English tests before reaching your shortlist.

Do I need a Brazilian company to hire a developer there?

No. Your developer joins your team full-time as an independent contractor under a written agreement with IP assigned to you, and Talentige handles the international payment in your currency. If you want us to run payroll and admin every month, choose Month-to-Month.

How do you test developers?

Every candidate does a live coding session in your language and framework, a take-home task matched to your stack and a technical interview, plus written and oral English and a communication assessment. You see the results and run your own technical interview before you choose.

How long does it take to hire a developer in Brazil?

You'll meet 3–5 tested finalists in about 20 days. Once you choose, we run the background check and contract, and every placement is backed by a 90-day replacement guarantee.

Is this the same as outsourcing to a Brazilian dev agency?

No. A development agency assigns its own engineers to your project and keeps the relationship. With Talentige, you pick your developer from 3–5 tested finalists and they work full-time, only for you, in your repos and your sprints.

Sources

GitHub, “Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1” (Octoverse 2025): India, Brazil and Indonesia more than quadrupled developers on the platform 2020–2025; Brazil projected at 19.6M developers by 2030; LATAM growth linked to remote hiring by US/EU firms. github.blog
EF Education First, EF English Proficiency Index 2025, Brazil fact sheet: IT 551; Florianópolis 577, Porto Alegre 570, Curitiba 556, Brasília 544, Belo Horizonte 541, Campinas 535, São Paulo 518, Recife 510; global average 488. ef.com
Time zone: Brasília time UTC−3; daylight saving time abolished by Decree No. 9,772 of April 25, 2019. timeanddate.com
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, software developers (15-1252), via the BLS Public Data API: annual 25th percentile $105,210; annual median $135,980. bls.gov
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026: total compensation $46.89 vs wages $32.82 per hour; multiplier 1.43. bls.gov
Talentige placement data (as of October 2026): developer pay range, timelines and testing process from Talentige placements.