Get a full-time, senior front-end developer from Latin America, embedded in your team at $3,500 to $4,500 per month, all-in. Working your hours, month-to-month, nothing owed until you hire.
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Most teams that set out to hire a front-end developer are not short on ideas. They are short on shipped pages. Next month's landing page is still a Figma file, the site has a Core Web Vitals problem nobody has time for, and the one developer who knows the codebase is booked on product work. Get a full-time, senior front-end developer from Latin America, embedded in your team at $3,500 to $4,500 per month, all-in. They work your hours, month-to-month, and nothing is owed until you hire.
When we ran our agency, front-end velocity was the constraint on almost every campaign. Paid media was ready, creative was ready, and the launch slipped a week because the page was not. A senior front-end developer who sits with the marketing team turns that week into a day, every campaign.
Everything the visitor sees, and how fast it appears. A senior front-end developer builds and maintains the marketing site and landing pages in whatever your stack is: React and Next.js, Webflow, a WordPress front end on a custom theme, or a mix. They turn Figma designs into production code that matches at every breakpoint, and they push back when a layout will cost 400 milliseconds of load time. They own a component library so the twentieth landing page takes hours instead of days. They own Core Web Vitals, meaning Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, and layout shift, and they know the difference between a green score and a fast page. They own the front-end analytics layer: tag implementation, event tracking, form handling, and the lead routing that decides whether a submission reaches your CRM. They handle accessibility, cross-browser bugs, animation, and the CMS setup that lets marketers publish without a ticket.
Senior shows up as restraint. A junior developer ships the page. A senior developer ships the page, makes it reusable, and leaves the codebase so the next campaign is faster to build than this one.
These titles blur, and hiring the wrong one wastes a quarter. A front-end developer owns the presentation layer and its performance. A full-stack developer also owns APIs, databases, authentication, and the server side, and is the right hire if you are building a customer portal, an internal tool, or anything with logins and stored data. A web designer owns the design itself and, on Webflow, often the build too. If your marketing site lives entirely in Webflow and your needs are design-led, a web designer may be the cheaper and better fit, and we will tell you so. If you need forty landing pages a quarter, a React component library, or a site that finally passes Core Web Vitals on mobile, you need the front-end seat.
| Option | What you get | Typical cost |
|---|---|---|
| Embedded nearshore hire (Talent Scout) | Full-time senior front-end developer, dedicated to you, US hours | $3,500 to $4,500/mo, all-in |
| Full-time US hire | Dedicated employee; slow to hire, permanent | Not yet sourced in our 2026 report |
| Agency or freelancer | Shared attention or per-page pricing, variable availability | Typically a retainer or per-project fee; varies widely |
| Generalist already on your team | Landing pages as a side task for a product engineer or designer | Free, and usually the most expensive option |
Our 2026 Latin American Marketing Salary Report sources the fully loaded US cost for nine roles, and front-end developer is not one of them. Borrowing a figure from an adjacent role like UI/UX design would be a guess dressed up as data, which we will not do. For scale only, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the median annual wage for web developers at $92,650 as of May 2025 (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/web-developers.htm). That is base salary, not the fully loaded cost with benefits, taxes, equipment, and recruiting, and we will not stretch it into one. Across the nine roles the report does cover, the embedded model comes in at up to 70% below the fully loaded US cost, and we will add a sourced front-end developer line and update this page once we have one.
Design-to-code is a conversation, not a handoff. The developer needs the designer in the same working hours to ask why the hero stacks that way on mobile, and the marketer needs the developer online when the campaign goes live at 9am Eastern and the form is not firing. A senior front-end developer in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, or Mexico shares your day, joins the standup, and reviews the Figma file live rather than overnight. Offshore teams can build the page; they cannot be in the room while it changes. More in nearshore vs offshore staffing. We screen for 8+/10 English so they can talk to your designer and your CMO directly.
Tell us your stack and what the role needs to own, whether that is landing page velocity, a marketing site rebuild, a component library, or a Core Web Vitals recovery. We source and vet from our Latin American network, screening for roughly five-plus years of hands-on experience in front-end development and 8+/10 English fluency, and we present the first round of candidates in 10 days. You interview and choose. We handle employment, compliance, contracts, and cross-border payments, so you manage the developer like any other member of your team. It is month-to-month, nothing is owed until you hire, and every placement includes free replacements at any time. It is the same embedded model behind marketing staff augmentation and outsourced marketing.
Hire when campaign launches slip because the page is not ready. Hire when your product engineers are building landing pages and resenting it. Hire when Core Web Vitals have been red for two quarters and your paid traffic is paying for it. Hire when you are moving between Webflow, WordPress, and Next.js and need someone who stays after the migration. If you are an agency, hire when your build freelancer starts quoting three weeks for a two-day page.
How much does it cost to hire a front-end developer?
Through Talent Scout, $3,500 to $4,500 per month, all-in, for a full-time senior developer working your hours. Our 2026 report does not yet source a fully loaded US figure for this role, and we will add it rather than estimate it.
React, Next.js, Webflow, or WordPress: which do I need?
Whichever your site already runs on, unless you are planning a migration. Tell us the stack and we screen for it specifically. Most senior candidates are strong in React and Next.js and comfortable in Webflow and WordPress, but we test for it rather than assume it.
What is the difference between a front-end and a full-stack developer?
Front-end owns what the visitor sees and how fast it renders. Full-stack also owns the server, database, and APIs. Marketing sites and landing pages need the first; portals and products need the second.
Can they work directly with my designer?
Yes, and they should. Our placements work from Figma, join design reviews, and flag feasibility and performance issues before a design is final.
How fast can I hire one?
Candidates to you in 10 days. Placements are month-to-month with no fee until you hire.
Explore related roles: web designer, UX designer, full-stack developer, and WordPress developer. You can also see every marketing role we place, or start at our hire Latin American talent hub.
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