Hire developers in Costa Rica for top engineering talent
Hire AI Fluent engineers in Costa Rica to build, debug, and ship faster. Costa Rica is #1 in IT services per capita in LatAm and boasts experienced developers and excellent English proficiency. Hire elite engineers, mobile app developers, QA engineers, and more in Costa Rica 40% faster.
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Amazing time zone alignment
Costa Rica is MST year-round. During daylight savings time, they stay the same and align with CST in the US.
High-powered engineering teams, fully remote
Terminal helps you find fully remote tech talent to build your engineering teams. Then, we go beyond recruiting – as the Employer of Record, we take care of all paperwork and legal red tape, onboarding and ongoing admin services, and offer expert localized HR. As part of their comprehensive benefits packages, engineers receive workspace budgets to enhance their home offices for optimal remote productivity.
Highly qualified Costa Rican engineers, available at scale
25k +
engineers and related technical professionals
44th
globally in English proficiency
7,000
graduates/year in tech, engineering and math
AI has changed engineering. We've changed hiring.
Software engineers are no longer coders. With AI, top-tier engineers are orchestrating agents to build, debug, test, and ship in parallel.
Terminal's hiring platform showcases not just coding skills but how and what our Costa Rican developers build with AI.
Our AI fluency standard validates how candidates leverage AI in daily workflows.
Quickly identify candidates who have shipped AI products and features.
Unlock real AI delivery expertise. Supercharge results.
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Why Terminal?
When you partner with Terminal for hiring, you tap into top talent markets across Costa Rica and throughout Mexico, Latin America, Canada and Europe. Our recruiters are based in the markets they’re hiring in – they understand regional interview and workplace culture, and they maintain local relationships to continue expanding our talent networks. Terminal serves as the employer of record for the professionals you decide to add to your team, taking on all legal risk and administrative burden.
Where Else Do We Hire?
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Canada
A premier global market for hiring top-tier engineers, Canada's innovative tech culture thrives, especially in key talent ecosystems Vancouver, Toronto, and Kitchener-Waterloo.
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Latin America
Software developers in Latin America are perfectly aligned with U.S. time zones, LatAm developers in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Mexico are elite talents ready for U.S. companies.
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Europe
With talented senior engineers, dynamic startups, and strong English proficiency, Poland, Spain, Romania, and Hungary are perfect hiring markets for your tech team.
Terminal has that expertise, and because of that, I haven’t had to spend as much time learning the hard way. I don’t have to learn a new market through trial and error. I can work with Terminal, expand our engineering team, and have more engineering throughput.
Andrew Backes
Head of Engineering at Armory
How much do developers in Costa Rica make?
Knowing what you should pay engineers - and where you can save - is critical.
As the expert in global developer hiring, Terminal has salary data on over 260K engineers to guide your hiring strategies. Learn where you can save with international hiring.
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