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Hire Node.js developers who keep your APIs fast under load
APIs, background workers and the service layer your front end and integrations depend on. A dedicated Node.js developer from Latin America who works your hours, owns what they ship and keeps the event loop free.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire a Node.js developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One Node.js developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
Node.js version, framework, database and cloud provider come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The Node.js stack we screen for
Runtime and language
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Node.js with TypeScript
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Async and await, streams and events
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npm, pnpm and Yarn workspaces
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Worker threads for CPU-heavy work
Frameworks and APIs
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Express and Fastify
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NestJS
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REST and GraphQL APIs
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WebSockets and real-time services
Data and messaging
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PostgreSQL and MongoDB
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Prisma and TypeORM
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Redis for caching and queues
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BullMQ and message brokers
Quality and operations
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Jest, Vitest and Supertest
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Docker and CI pipelines
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Structured logging and tracing
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Serverless functions
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
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| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in a Node.js developer
Writing JavaScript on a server is the entry ticket. These are the skills that decide whether your services stay fast, correct and easy to change.
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Respect for the event loop
Knows that one blocking call slows every request, and moves heavy CPU work to workers or queues instead of the request path.
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Async code that fails cleanly
Handles rejected promises, timeouts and retries on purpose, so one failing dependency does not take the process down.
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API design
Clear contracts, input validation, versioning and error responses that front end and mobile developers can rely on.
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Data access that scales
Connection pooling, indexed queries and transactions where they matter, not an ORM call inside a loop.
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Dependency hygiene
Keeps packages current, reads what a new dependency pulls in, and treats a lockfile and audit warnings as part of the job.
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TypeScript on the server
Typed request and response shapes, shared types with the front end, and strict settings that catch mistakes before production.
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Observability
Structured logs, metrics and traces that show which request was slow and why, so incidents take minutes to diagnose.
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AI output, reviewed
Uses coding assistants for boilerplate and tests, and reviews every line that touches data, auth or error handling.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire Node.js developers
A Node.js hire lives or dies on how they handle concurrency, failure and data, none of which shows on a resume. This guide covers what a Node.js developer does, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated Node.js developer is the wrong hire.
What does a Node.js developer do?
Builds and runs the server side of your product in JavaScript or TypeScript: the APIs your apps call, background jobs, integrations with third-party services and real-time features such as notifications or chat.
Day to day that means writing and reviewing code, designing endpoints and data access, keeping deployments safe and responding when a service slows down or fails in production.
Node.js or another backend language?
Node.js fits well when your product is I/O heavy, with many API calls, real-time connections and integrations, and when your front end team already works in TypeScript and can share types and tooling.
It is a weaker fit for long CPU-bound computation. If most of the work is heavy number crunching or data processing, check that the candidate knows how to move it off the main thread, or consider a different stack for that part.
Frameworks: Express, Fastify or NestJS
Express is minimal and everywhere. Fastify focuses on speed and schema validation. NestJS adds structure with modules and dependency injection, which helps larger teams keep a codebase consistent.
Hire for the framework you run today. If you are starting fresh, choose the one your team can maintain, and put it in the brief so every profile is checked against it.
Concurrency and the event loop
Node.js runs your JavaScript on a single thread. A synchronous file read, a large JSON parse or a heavy loop inside a request blocks every other user until it finishes.
Ask the candidate how they would find a request that blocks the event loop and what they would do about it. You want to hear about profiling, streaming, worker threads or a queue.
What to test in a Node.js developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: an endpoint that reads and writes to a database, validates input and calls one external API that sometimes fails. Read how they handle the failure path, the timeout and the test.
Then ask about a production incident they handled. You want to hear how they found the cause, what they changed and what they did so it would not happen again.
Red flags in Node.js developer candidates
Unhandled promises. If rejected promises and timeouts never come up in the interview task, expect crashed processes and requests that hang.
Heavy work in the request path. A candidate who parses large files or runs long loops inside a handler, with no plan for workers or queues, will slow every user at once.
A new package for every problem. Adding dependencies without checking what they pull in or who maintains them turns your supply chain into someone else's decision.
Queries inside loops. Fetching one row at a time in a loop works in development and fails at production volume.
Generated code they cannot explain. Ask them to walk through code they wrote with an AI assistant. If they cannot say how it handles errors, nobody has reviewed it.
When should you not hire a dedicated Node.js developer?
When your backend is a thin layer over a managed platform or a backend as a service, and a few serverless functions cover what you need. A full-time developer will not have enough to do.
It is also the wrong hire when nobody on your side can review code or set priorities. A single developer with no technical lead and no product owner tends to build what is interesting instead of what the business needs.
How much does it cost to hire a Node.js developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire a Node.js developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the Node.js version and framework you run, your database and cloud provider, the kind of work and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
What is the difference between a Node.js developer and a backend developer?
Can a Node.js developer also work on our front end?
Can they work on our existing codebase?
How fast can a Node.js developer start?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.