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Fernando is a Go backend engineer who builds payment and credit microservices on GCP. He led a payment service used across 30+ countries, adding idempotency and OAuth-secured webhooks, and earlier sped up service-to-service calls with gRPC and Protobuf, cutting response times by 40% and development cycles by 30%.
Darlon is a full-stack engineer working in React, Next.js, TypeScript and Node.js who has led two real estate products from the ground up, including a React Native and NestJS app with CI/CD to both app stores. He also handled a 100k+ image migration from a legacy CMS and built a GraphQL schema generator that cut runtime errors.
Thosan is a data engineer working in Python, Spark, Airflow, and BigQuery who builds lakehouses and analytics platforms from scratch. Recently he designed an event-driven lakehouse for a conversational commerce platform with hundreds of streaming sources, and earlier set up data quality, lineage tracing, and DBT-based warehouse modeling for an agritech product used by thousands of farmers.
Roberto is a QA automation engineer who builds and fixes test frameworks in Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and C#. Recently he migrated a warranty and repairs platform from Cypress to Playwright and added API coverage; earlier he set up a QA process and Playwright framework from scratch for a compliance tracking product.
Björn is a DevOps and platform engineer working across AWS, Kubernetes, FastAPI, and serverless systems. As founder of a healthcare payments platform, he led a team of 3, built the billing API and invoice extraction pipeline, and earlier designed an AWS platform that scaled to 1,000 Kubernetes nodes while cutting infra spend by about $30K a month.
Fernando is a Ruby on Rails and Node.js backend engineer who recently rebuilt a recommendation algorithm from a monolith into a Go microservice and now works on discovery and search services using NestJS, Elasticsearch, OpenAI, and Claude. Earlier he shipped backend APIs for an online bank on AWS and Terraform.
Luis is a platform SRE and DevOps engineer who works across Kubernetes, Linux, AWS and PostgreSQL, recently leading data operations and building 24/7 low-downtime platforms. He has also delivered telecom infrastructure on cloud and on-prem, from HA databases and failover to automated provisioning for ISP environments.
Gerson is a frontend engineer working mainly in Vue, TypeScript, and Angular who has led architecture-heavy UI work, from owning an internal SSO app to building a design system for financial portals. He also led a Next.js education platform that used OpenAI for personalized learning and classroom insights.
João is a Python AI engineer who builds production LLM systems and full-stack SaaS products with FastAPI, Django, React, and Docker. He shipped a multi-tenant report generator for about 30 enterprise clients using schema-validated OpenAI outputs, and separately built a containerized news pipeline with swappable OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and local llama.cpp models.
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US hours, US clients, US dollars: we vet Salvadoran developers who already live that routine.
San Salvador
Most of El Salvador's tech companies and developers are based in and around San Salvador, so the scene is tight-knit.
UES, UCA and Don Bosco
UCA and Don Bosco University pair engineering with English, while the public University of El Salvador trains the most students.
Nearshore and blockchain
Salvadoran developers do nearshore work for US companies, plus blockchain, cloud and AI projects.
Why El Salvador
Dollars, no conversion
El Salvador uses the US dollar, so rates, invoices and budgets stay in one currency.
US Central hours
El Salvador keeps one clock all year, matching Chicago in winter and an hour behind it in summer.
English for nearshore
Salvadoran developers who work nearshore use English daily with US teams.
Home-grown nearshore firms
Salvadoran companies like Applaudo built engineering teams that serve US clients full time.
The experience with Lemon.io has been fantastic. The interview process has been good, the caliber of people – excellent and integration has been very smooth.
We needed extra developers to clean off all these bugs so the company could skyrocket.
We needed extra AI engineers to keep our ambitious project running.
Hiring developers in El Salvador provides access to skilled professionals at competitive rates. El Salvador has a growing tech sector, with developers proficient in web, mobile, and software development, making it an attractive outsourcing destination.
The cost to hire developers in El Salvador is lower compared to North America and Europe. Developers typically charge around $12K-$48K annually according to Glassdoor.
Developers in El Salvador can be found through local job platforms, recruitment agencies, and outsourcing services. Lemon.io helps connect clients with pre-vetted developers in El Salvador, streamlining the hiring process.
Yes, El Salvador offers a growing pool of developers skilled in various programming languages and development frameworks. The country is becoming an increasingly popular choice for outsourcing, thanks to its skilled labor and cost-effective rates.
The hiring process for developers in El Salvador typically takes a few weeks, depending on the recruitment method. With Lemon.io, you can be matched with pre-vetted developers within 48 hours.
Hiring developers in El Salvador offers significant cost savings while providing access to a skilled workforce. Additionally, the country’s proximity to the US ensures easier communication and collaboration in similar time zones.
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