South helps growing companies find, hire, and pay top Latin American talent. Build high-performing teams in 21 days or less.
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Blockchain hiring splits by protocol. DeFi and consumer crypto teams hire an Ethereum Developer and a Solidity Developer for on-chain logic, plus a Smart Contract Developer to own audits and deployment. Enterprise and supply-chain use cases more often call for a Hyperledger Developer. For the broader decentralized product surface — wallets, dApps, on-chain integrations — a Web3 Developer is the generalist profile most teams start with.
A Blockchain Engineer builds full-stack blockchain systems: protocol-level work, smart contracts, indexers, off-chain services, and the wallets and dApps that connect users. They write Solidity, Rust, or Move, deploy to Ethereum, Solana, or L2s, run nodes, and design systems where bugs cost millions. The role demands deep distributed-systems instinct and obsessive attention to security, since once code ships, it's immutable and adversarial.
Blockchain engineering is one of the highest-paid software niches. Expect an average U.S. salary of $12,000 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $6,000 per month, creating potential savings of up to 50%. LatAm has produced strong Web3 engineers, particularly out of Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, where local crypto adoption pushed deep developer ecosystems.
Yes, Web3 has been remote-native from day one. South contracts the engineer locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They join your GitHub, Discord, and on-chain monitoring tools day one. Time-zone alignment is helpful for incident response and code review, both of which need real-time coordination.
Deep Solidity or Rust fluency, command of EVM mechanics (gas, storage, calldata), and a security-first mindset. Look for someone who has shipped audited contracts to mainnet and can walk through real exploits they've prevented or postmortemed. Run a security review on a sample contract. Top engineers will spot reentrancy, oracle manipulation, and access-control issues without prompting.
Solidity for EVM chains, Rust for Solana and Substrate, Move for Aptos and Sui. Foundry and Hardhat for testing. Slither, Echidna, and Mythril for static analysis. Tenderly and Etherscan for transaction debugging. Hardhat or Anvil for local dev nodes. Subgraph or Goldsky for indexing. TypeScript with ethers.js or viem for the front-end side.
A Smart Contract Developer focuses tightly on on-chain code: contracts, security, gas optimization. A Blockchain Engineer covers the broader stack: contracts plus indexers, off-chain services, node infrastructure, and integration code. On a small team, one engineer plays both. As the protocol scales, you split into smart-contract and infrastructure-focused engineers.
South vets LatAm blockchain engineers through technical interviews, paid security-review exercises, and code reviews of past projects. You see a shortlist in seven to ten days, run your own interviews, and onboard inside two to three weeks. South handles the contract, monthly payments, and a replacement guarantee. Schedule a free call here to get started!
The region has the perfect mix of everything you want in remote employees: English skills, shared time zones, hard-working, and depth of talent. They are already accustomed to working remotely for top US startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The US and Latin America have basically the same time zones. No Latin American city is more than two hours ahead of EST.
Every hire is sourced based on your exact needs. They will arrive ready to support your business right away. They can do basically any tasks done remotely, but we recommend starting them as support so your team has more bandwidth for high-value strategic tasks.
All types of roles - customer service, executive assistant, sales, accounting, email marketing, lead generation, content writers, operations, social media marketing, and more!
You can pay directly through us (most popular) or we can connect you with one of our payroll partners.
You don't have to deal with any American labor laws / taxes when hiring full-time remote contractors. They aren't US-based, so no visas or sponsorships to deal with either.
We recommend market pay which varies for each role. See our salary guide and success stories for some ideas.
Then, we have two different models:
Staffing (most popular) - We charge a small monthly fee for each employee's monthly salary to make the process hassle-free. The fee covers sourcing, recruiting, admin, payroll, compliance, ongoing support, and a free replacement if necessary at any point. There are no cancellation fees or minimum commitments. You only pay if you make a hire.
Headhunting - A one-time simple fee once we've found the perfect candidate. This comes with a 120-day replacement guarantee.
For both options, you only pay something if we find you someone great that you want to hire.
Yes, we only recruit for full-time and we strongly recommend full-time hiring if you can. Stability (full-time & long-term) is highly sought after abroad. The top caliber candidates are only looking for full-time work.
You're also going to spend time training and getting them up to speed on your processes. It would be a waste to do that over and over again with new people all the time.
We recommend training new hires on one thing at a time.
For example, once they get up to speed on lead generation, you can add the next role writing blog posts or whatever you'd like. You can definitely overlap roles until you have enough work for multiple people.
The cost of living is much less in Latin American countries. Many of our employees are able to own homes, raise families, provide for their parents, and have in-home help of their own with their salaries.
If you aren't happy with your hire in the first 120 days, we will work with you to conduct a second round of search for the same role for free.
Just email us at Hello@HireInSouth.com and we will get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
