Deel and Remote give you the tools. Teros runs the playbook — sourcing, payroll, compliance, and day-to-day ops — so you get a team that works the way your US team does.
Platforms like Deel and Remote hand you a dashboard. You still pick the country, entity model, contractor-vs-employee split, comp band, and benefits. You still source. You still operate.
Agencies do the opposite — they own the team, the model, and the relationship. You get output, not a team.
Neither fits a startup that wants its own engineering team without running the back office.
Most platforms give you knobs and dashboards. We come with opinions.
Entity vs contractor. Comp benchmarks. Equity treatment. Holidays. Ramp-up. Performance cycles. Decisions already made — refined across our portfolio, applied to your team on day one.
A Series B customer scoped a senior backend role on Monday. By Friday, comp was benchmarked against their US band, the contracting structure was decided, and onboarding was scheduled. They reviewed two candidates, not five frameworks.
Sourcing, vetting, and matching are part of the service — not a separate hire.
Engagement model is shaped to fit your team: full-time, fractional, or embedded directly into your squads. The default is full-time engineers who stay. Average tenure with us: 3–5 years.
Engineers we placed in 2021 are still on those teams. They sit in the same standups, ship to the same repos, and review code alongside US colleagues. The fact that they're on Teros payroll is operational plumbing, not a wall.
We're physically present in the Río de la Plata — Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
US business-hour overlap, a deep engineering talent pool, and a local team that handles onboarding, retention, and issues in person. Remote-only platforms route those things through a ticket queue.
When a senior engineer in Buenos Aires had a visa question, our local ops lead met with them that afternoon. When a Montevideo hire needed equipment on day one, it was at their door. These are not edge cases — they're the model.
We sit with your eng leadership, map the role into your team, and align on level, comp, and engagement model.
We source from our regional network, vet against your bar, and present a short list. You interview the ones you want.
We handle contracts, payroll, equity treatment, equipment, and compliance.
Offer confirmed, contracts signed, equipment in hand. Your first engineer is ready to hit the ground running.
Argentina and Uruguay share US business hours, produce engineers trained in the same stacks your team uses, and — critically — let us show up in person when something matters.
Onboarding, retention, performance issues, equipment, payroll edge cases: these resolve faster when someone is in the same city, not the same ticketing system.
“As we scaled engineering, we needed experienced contributors who could operate with autonomy and sound judgment. Teros delivered exactly that. Their team is senior, reliable, and aligned with outcomes. They think long-term while still moving fast.”
“Teros helped us add senior engineering capacity quickly and responsibly. The team ramped fast, operated with ownership, and raised the technical bar. Highly recommend.”
“We started working with Teros during a critical phase of growth and they've consistently delivered. The engineers are thoughtful, pragmatic, and operate with real ownership. They ramp fast and contribute meaningfully. Teros is not a vendor for us — they are a core part of Honeyjar.”
We'll tell you whether Teros is a fit — and if it isn't, we'll tell you that too.
