Kulturo is a tech recruitment agency founded in Barcelona, Spain, and one of its two cofounders is Argentine, so Latin America has been part of our story since the first day.
Today, with that cofounder and a team on the ground in Buenos Aires, we help US companies hire senior LatAm developers in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Chile: as direct hires on a one-time success fee, or through monthly staff augmentation where we handle the contract and payroll.
Kulturo was born in Barcelona, but it was never only a Spanish story. One of the agency's two cofounders, Damián Legasa, is Argentine. For Kulturo, Latin America is not a new market spotted on a map: the connection has been there since the first conversation about building the agency.
Pol Guasch and Damián Legasa started Kulturo to build the recruitment agency they would have wanted to find themselves: close to the people involved, specialised in technical roles, and honest about what it can and cannot do. More than 75 tech companies have hired through Kulturo since then, and our clients come from more than 8 countries, the United States among them.
Several US companies already hire engineers through Kulturo fully remote, as contractors working from Spain. What a US team wants from a remote engineer rarely changes: real seniority, clear English and a working day that overlaps with its own. Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Chile offer all three, and Argentina is a country Kulturo knows from the inside.
US companies hire LatAm developers through Kulturo in one of two ways: a direct hire, where the engineer joins your team and you pay a one-time success fee, or staff augmentation, where the engineer works full time on your team and Kulturo handles the contract and payroll for a monthly rate. For a role that matters for years, Kulturo recommends a direct hire.
The engineer works for your company. Across LatAm, most US companies hire engineers as contractors on a fixed monthly fee; an employer of record (EOR) or your own local entity are the alternatives. Kulturo charges on a success-fee basis only: you pay once, when you hire.
The engineer works full time inside your team, in your tools and your rituals, while Kulturo takes care of the contract and payroll. Nearshore staff augmentation is the faster route when you need someone in the seat soon, or want to work together before making it permanent.
Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Chile give a US engineering team real-time collaboration: all four sit within two hours of New York, so a team can mix engineers from Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Bogotá and Santiago without changing its working day.
All four countries sit between UTC−5 and UTC−3. Bogotá is level with New York or 1 hour behind it; Buenos Aires and Montevideo are 1 to 2 hours ahead; Santiago is level with New York or up to 2 hours ahead, depending on the season. Standups, code reviews and incidents happen inside the same working day.
Argentina ranks 26th worldwide in the EF English Proficiency Index 2025. English still varies across the region and from one engineer to the next, so Kulturo tests it in a live conversation with every candidate, because a ranking is not a person.
With an Argentine cofounder and a team on the ground in Buenos Aires, Kulturo knows what senior engineers across LatAm expect from a US employer, and what makes them stay once they have joined.
Kulturo runs the same process in LatAm as in Spain: a technical kick-off, direct search by our own team, a technical interview, a short shortlist and support until the offer is signed. It works because we are technicians and recruiters, and we still don't know which we like best.
One meeting to understand the role, the stack, the culture and what a great hire looks like for your team.
Kulturo's own recruiters search actively, not only through job ads, combining the network Kulturo has built since Barcelona with direct outreach to engineers across Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Chile.
Every candidate goes through a technical conversation about real projects, plus a live conversation in English.
You meet a short list of engineers who match the role and the team. Kulturo's published target is a first batch of validated candidates in under 7 days.
Kulturo helps with the offer, the counteroffer and the hiring route that fits you: a contractor agreement, your EOR, your own entity or staff augmentation. Kulturo's published target is 30 days from kick-off to signed offer, before the candidate's notice period.
Kulturo only recruits technical and digital profiles, with the same specialisms in Latin America as in Spain. AI engineering gets the deepest technical screen, because it is where similar job titles hide the biggest differences in real experience. That includes forward deployed engineers (FDEs): engineers who embed with customers to deploy and adapt the product, often an AI product, to how each customer works. These are the roles and stacks we recruit; the full list is on every role we recruit.
Kulturo searches across Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Chile, with its team working from Buenos Aires. All four countries sit between UTC−5 and UTC−3, within two hours of New York.
Home to Kulturo's team in Buenos Aires.
A compact market centred on Montevideo.
Several engineering hubs, close to US Eastern time.
Engineering talent concentrated in Santiago.
Senior ranges are what senior software engineers are typically paid per month, based on published rate data from LatAm hiring platforms (2026). They assume conversational English; if the role works with more limited English, pay can be up to 20% lower.
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