DevEngine provides its clients - Canadian companies – with an opportunity to find and hire talented software engineers in Latin America, both remote and on-site. As an HR technology company, our goal is to facilitate long-term relationships between companies and software engineers that benefit both parties and guarantee professional growth and job satisfaction. If you are a 5-150 employee company in Vancouver or Toronto, it’s likely that your recent LinkedIn job posts for, say, Ruby on Rails engineers have not been fetching the resumes you were hoping for… if any at all. A promising Node developer you would have loved to join your product team turned down your offer and took the one from Amazon or a Silicon Valley startup you’ve never heard of… (and very likely at $50K above your max budget)? This is what the reality of hiring good engineers in Canada is like these days. Will the hype pass and hiring get easier in a couple of months again? Nobody knows the future, obviously, but such a scenario is unlikely at best. At DevEngine we’ve pivoted from helping local engineers find remote work in the US to assisting Canadian companies hire developers in Latin America. This would have been a crazy idea even 2 years ago, but like in many other areas of our lives, 2020 changed everything. No modern tech company is any longer concerned about remote work, especially when the team is in the same time zone. Our network is built mostly around full-stack and back-end engineers, working predominantly with Ruby on Rails, Node, and Java. We keep a bare-bones presence on LinkedIn, it’s an amazing tool, but the level of competition for engineering talent is such that it now makes more sense for DevEngine to operate in a stealth mode to protect our talent pool and clients from poaching.