Howdy.com is a nearshore staffing company based in Austin, Texas, that helps US companies hire full-time software engineers and other professionals from Latin America. Founded in 2018, it combines recruitment with the payroll, compliance, logistics and support needed to employ international staff, and describes itself as an on-the-ground operational partner rather than a payroll platform or traditional staffing agency.
The company’s core service is recruiting and vetting engineering talent. It reports reviewing more than 100,000 candidates a year and running technical, cultural and English-language assessments, with a team of full-time psychologists trained as recruiters. Beyond software engineers, it places professionals in areas such as product management, finance, HR and marketing, and it has expanded into AI-enabled engineering and AI training for client teams.
Once a hire is made, Howdy.com handles international payroll, compliance and benefits, and provides ongoing support aimed at retention. Its performance coaches, who the company says have more than ten years of experience as engineering managers, work with placed employees on professional development.
A distinctive part of its model is a network of physical community spaces called Howdy Houses. The company lists locations in Austin, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Florianópolis, Guadalajara, Lima, Medellín, Mexico City, Montevideo, Santiago and São Paulo, giving remote employees a place to work, meet and take part in in-person events.
Pricing is transparent, with clients paying a Howdy fee on top of each employee’s salary, taxes and benefits. The company says clients that hire through it see a 98% retention rate, and it emphasises time-zone alignment and cultural fit between US teams and Latin American hires. Its website lists more than 20 client case studies.
Howdy.com is suited to US technology companies, from startups to larger firms, that want to build long-term engineering or product teams in Latin America working in overlapping hours, without setting up their own entities in the region.