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Hire remote developers anywhere and ship faster

Build your engineering and AI team in 150+ countries, no entities needed. Contractor agreements and USD payouts, from $49 per contractor a month.

This sprint
Release 4.2, built in four cities
Shipped
BE
Backend developer
Bogotá · 9h overlap with New York
$5,200
FE
Frontend developer
Mexico City · 8h overlap
$4,600
MO
Mobile developer
Buenos Aires · 7h overlap
$4,300
QA
QA engineer
Lima · 9h overlap
$3,100
One payout in USD
$17,200.00
Release shipped icon
Release shipped
Whole squad paid in one run
Teams that hire and pay with Ontop
Why tech teams choose Ontop

Grow your engineering team, not your admin

Pull request approved
Bogotá · 10:42 your time
Release shipped
Lisbon · 11:05 your time
Ship faster

Hire in time zones that overlap with yours, so reviews happen live.

Payment received
USD in your Global Account
$4,800.00
Visa card
USD balance
Reserve
Keep your best engineers

Paid in USD to a Global Account, with a Visa card.

$49
per contractor a month
Run lean global ops

One payment run, a public price and an API.

Your product team

From a local dev team to a global product team

Your next senior engineer can live anywhere and still join your standup.

Engineers, designers and product managers, hired where the talent is.

Frontend
Backend
Full stack
Mobile
QA
DevOps
Data
Product design
Product management
And whoever is next on your roadmap
Contractor of record

You run the team. Ontop carries the paperwork.

Your team decides
Who to hire
Stack, seniority and scope
The rate you agree on
How they fit your sprints and rituals
Ontop handles
✓
Contractor agreements for each country
✓
Signed agreements and payment records on file
✓
Onboarding and ID checks in the app
✓
One USD payment run for the team
✓
From $49 per contractor a month

Contractor of record, not employer of record. Your developers stay independent.

What to get right

Three things software teams get wrong abroad

01
Who owns the code

Without a signed agreement, ownership of code and models gets murky the day someone leaves.

Ontop
Every contractor signs a compliant contract in Ontop before day one.
02
Contractor or employee

Fixed hours and day-to-day direction can turn a contractor into an employee.

Ontop
Ontop's agreements are written for independent work in their country. Agree on deliverables, not office hours.
03
Paying across borders

Wires, fees and currencies slow every payday down.

Ontop
One payment run in USD, wherever your engineers live.

“Ontop allowed us to give our employees guarantees, organize ourselves better internally, and hire people from anywhere quickly and legally.”

Sylvana Rojas · Head of People at Trii
The result
2x
contracts in three months
Read the Trii story →
Why your developers stay

Pay that keeps senior engineers around

Good engineers have options. Dollars on time, every time, is one less reason to take a recruiter's call.

Paid in USD icon
Paid in USD

Their pay lands in an Ontop Global Account, in dollars.

A Visa card to spend it icon
A Visa card to spend it

For tools, travel and subscriptions, with no foreign transaction fees on card spend.

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One run for the whole team

Backend, frontend and QA get paid together, every time.

Before you post the job

Know what a developer costs

Compare rates by country. Ontop adds $49 per contractor a month.

Cómo funciona

How to hire remote developers in four steps

Step 1: define the role icon
01
Define the role and budget

Pick the stack, seniority and country. Compare rates in the cost calculator.

Step 2: find your developer icon
02
Find your developer

Use your network, job boards or recruiters.

Step 3: agreement icon
03
Send a compliant agreement

Ontop sends a contractor agreement for their country.

Step 4: payday icon
04
Onboard and pay in USD

They onboard in the app. You pay everyone in one run.

FAQ

Questions about hiring remote developers

How do I hire remote developers in another country?
As independent contractors. Ontop sends the agreement, they onboard in the app and you pay them in one run. No local entity needed.
How do I pay remote developers abroad?
Pay everyone in one run. They get USD in an Ontop Global Account, and most payouts land in about 15 minutes.
Where should I hire developers to work US hours?
Latin America. Bogotá, Mexico City and Buenos Aires overlap 7 to 9 hours with New York on standard time.
How much does it cost to hire a remote developer?
It depends on country, seniority and stack. Compare rates in the cost calculator; Ontop adds $49 per contractor a month.
Can we connect Ontop to our own tools?
Yes. The Ontop API covers workers, paylists, batch payments and webhooks.
Does Ontop employ the developers for us?
No. Ontop is a contractor of record, not an employer of record. Your developers stay independent contractors.
Do I need a local entity to hire developers abroad?
No, not to work with contractors. You only need a local entity or an employer of record to hire employees.
Should I hire developers abroad as contractors or employees?
It depends on how they work. Contractors run their own work under an agreement; employees need a local entity or an employer of record. Ontop supports contractors.
What is a contractor of record?
A company that engages independent contractors for you: it prepares their agreements and pays them. Ontop is a contractor of record, not an employer of record.
Do you work with fintech and regulated teams?
Yes. Every contractor verifies their identity in the app, and agreements and payment history stay in one place when auditors or partners ask. Trii, a fintech, doubled its contracts in three months with Ontop.
Agenda una demo

Your next standup, with the whole team awake

See how Ontop fits your hiring plan.

Daily standup
10:00 to 10:15 · New York time
Engineering lead
New York · 10:00
Backend developer
Lisbon · 15:00
Frontend developer
Mexico City · 9:00
QA engineer
Buenos Aires · 12:00
Illustrative schedule on standard time