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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A MERN Stack Developer builds full web applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js. They own the entire JavaScript pipeline: REST or GraphQL APIs on Node, document modeling in Mongo, React components on the front, and the deploy and monitoring around it. The advantage of MERN is one language across the stack, which speeds up onboarding and code reuse on small teams.
Hiring a MERN Stack Developer in the U.S. is significantly more expensive than in Latin America, with an average U.S. salary of $10,300 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $3,200 per month, creating potential savings of up to 69%. Working with South gives you access to a vetted pool of LatAm MERN Stack Developers on contracts that handle compliance and payroll, with same-time-zone collaboration.
Yes. MERN is one of the most common JavaScript stacks in remote-first engineering teams, and LatAm has a deep pool of senior MERN engineers from agencies that built SaaS for U.S. clients. South contracts the developer locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. Same time zone means real-time PR review, pair sessions, and same-day deploys.
Look for strong JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals, comfort with React hooks and state management, schema design in MongoDB, REST and GraphQL API design in Express, and familiarity with auth patterns like JWT and OAuth. Senior candidates should have shipped at least one production app to AWS or a similar cloud and explain trade-offs between SQL and document stores out loud.
React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, MongoDB and Mongoose, Redux or Zustand, TypeScript, Jest or Vitest, Webpack or Vite, Docker, GitHub Actions, and AWS or Vercel for deploys. Mongo Atlas is the standard managed database. Sentry or Datadog for monitoring.
A Full-Stack Developer is stack-agnostic, while a MERN Stack Developer is opinionated about the JavaScript end-to-end approach. If your team is already running React on the front and Node on the back, a MERN specialist will move faster. If you need polyglot work across Python, Go, or PHP, hire a generalist.
South vets LatAm MERN engineers with technical interviews, take-home tasks, and live pair-coding sessions on real React and Node code. You see a shortlist in seven to ten days, run your own interviews, and onboard in two to three weeks. South handles the contract, compliance, and monthly payment, plus 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.
