outsourcing
Outsourcing
Embedded senior engineering capacity from Buenos Aires — timezone-overlapped with North America, priced for the mid-market.
The problem we solve
Hiring in North America is taking nine months. Offshore options save money but lose four hours of overlap and two quarters of context. Nearshore is the right shape — the question is finding a partner who writes code you'd have written yourself.
What you get
- Embedded senior engineers (3–15 year experience, Rust / TypeScript / Go / Python)
- Full UTC-3 overlap with NA Eastern; 4 hours with PST, 5 with EU
- Direct Slack/Github access to engineers — no layer of account managers
- Code review, PRs, standups inside your process (not ours)
- Month-to-month, 60-day notice; no lock-in
Stack we bring
- Rust (systems, cryptography, embedded, backend)
- TypeScript / React / Next.js / Node
- Python (data, ML, scripting)
- Go, Elixir (selective)
- Postgres, Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse
Sample engagement
- Scope
- Two senior Rust engineers embedded into a US fintech's cryptography team.
- Duration
- Ongoing, 14 months in.
- Outcome
- Co-owners of two production services; shipped FIPS-readiness work and a migration off a deprecated HSM.
Pricing
USD 8k–14k / month per engineer, fully loaded.
Typically 45–60% below the NA salary + benefits equivalent at the same seniority level.
Frequently asked
- Are these W-2-style employees of Craton or subcontractors?
- Direct employees. We don't operate a body-shop marketplace. Low attrition is a contractual promise.
- What happens if we want to hire them directly?
- After 12 months, there's no conversion fee. Before that, a capped buy-out. We prefer the engagement to work for everyone.