Hire a data scientist who can anticipate and prevent churn

Senior Latin American data scientists who frame the question, run the analysis, and defend the result, working your hours.

  • Frames the business question before opening the data
  • Tells you when the data cannot answer the question
  • Walks through real analyses, not a timed test
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Placing Latin American talent since 2020
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The questions your
data scientist takes off your desk

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Companies hire a data scientist from Deverr when the reporting is already fine and the decisions are still guesses. We place senior Latin American data scientists who own question framing, analysis, experiment design, and the models that come out of it.

They join your team directly, in your warehouse and your notebooks, and we employ them in their own country, so payroll, taxes, and compliance are handled without you opening a local entity.

Someone who has had their analysis challenged in a board meeting knows where this breaks. They catch the A/B test stopped early on a good week, the target that leaked into the training data and made the model look excellent offline, and the average that hides two segments moving in opposite directions.

What we check before a
data scientist reaches your shortlist

Quality control is the first question almost every team asks. Here is the filter a candidate passes before you see a profile.

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The soft skills bar

Problem-solving, written and verbal communication, planning and self-management, collaboration across multifunctional teams, attention to detail, running several projects at once, and a continuous learning mindset, held to the same standard at every seniority level.

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Where the screening energy goes

Most of it goes here rather than into the technical round, because even at mid-level we are looking for staff-level habits in how someone plans work and communicates it. For this role that bar does double duty, since an analysis nobody can follow does not get used.

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Technical grounding, in their own words

We ask what tools, languages, and methods a candidate uses day to day and how, because a resume listing pandas and scikit-learn tells you nothing without the how.

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The interview format

Technical match is scored from the CV and a verbal walkthrough of real work rather than a whiteboard score, so you hear how someone reasoned through an actual analysis and what they decided to leave out.

The requirements we screen against

Area
What we require
Experience
5+ years in applied data science, on work that shipped into decisions or products
Core languages
Strong Python plus SQL
Statistics
Hypothesis testing, regression, confidence intervals, and causal methods where randomization is not possible
Experimentation
A/B test design, power analysis, guardrail metrics, and reading a result that came back flat
Modeling
scikit-learn, gradient boosting, forecasting, classification and regression on tabular data
Data handling
pandas, feature engineering, and working inside dbt models rather than around them
Warehouse
Snowflake or BigQuery, plus enough SQL to find their way around someone else's schema
Reporting
Looker, Power BI, or Tableau, and written analysis a non-technical stakeholder can act on
Education
No specific degree requirement. Demonstrated skill over credentials
Certifications
None required for this role

“Deverr built our ingestion and data modeling engine for Shopify data. They built rock-solid infrastructure, were professional, and responsive.”

Mubeen Ibrahim, Head of Data, Superbalist. Five-star review.

Deverr has done a great job of meeting and exceeding our expectations. What stands out about Deverr is their engineering team's ability to work efficiently without compromising quality.

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Christo Brown
Christo Brown
Head of Product, Connect Financial

Deverr built our ingestion and data modeling engine for Shopify data. They built rock-solid infrastructure, were professional, and responsive. True partners in every sense.

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Mubeen Ibrahim
Mubeen Ibrahim
Head of Data, Superbalist

We needed a senior full-stack developer fast. Deverr placed someone in under two weeks who was shipping code by day three. Six months later he's one of our core team members.

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Andrew Love
Andrew Love
Founder, SOVRUN

We couldn't be happier with the full-stack, AI, and WordPress developers Deverr found for us. They saved us a ton of time recruiting and brought in highly experienced developers who fit our culture perfectly, at a fraction of what we'd pay for U.S. developers of the same skill level. 5 stars, I can't recommend them enough.

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Cam Fulton
Cam Fulton
CEO, SearchActions

Alvis.Care started as my garage project, built on Lovable, held together by vision and duct tape. Within a month of bringing on Deverr, they placed Allan as our lead engineer and our code was professionalized and stabilized. Allan took ownership of the team and gave me back time to sell the vision. If you built something real and need it to become a company, this is how you do it.

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Srdjan Stakić
Srdjan Stakić
Founder, Alvis.Care

Deverr is officially the gold standard for scaling a team without the usual headaches. We will never go back to traditional recruiting after seeing how effortless this was.

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Brandon Sheiner
Brandon Sheiner
Founder, Promethean Innovations, Inc

What you get when you hire a
data scientist from Deverr

Six things that hold on every data science placement we make.

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30 to 50% less than the same hire in the US

The same seniority costs 30 to 50% less than a US equivalent hire, and one hourly rate covers their salary, benefits, payroll, and local compliance.

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No juniors on this bench

Every data scientist we place has done this work somewhere it counted, so you are not funding someone's training.

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Matched to the warehouse you already run

Candidates are assessed against your actual warehouse, tooling, and role requirements rather than a generic rubric applied to everyone.

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In your standups, not a time zone away

A nearshore hire works US hours, so a question gets asked and answered inside the same working day instead of waiting overnight.

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One person owns the number end to end

The same data scientist frames the question, pulls the data, runs the analysis, and presents the result to whoever has to act on it.

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Scale the role as the work changes

Move the engagement up or down as priorities shift, without renegotiating from scratch each time.

From your first call to your first answer

Four steps, and you run your own interviews in the middle of them.

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  1. 1

    Share the questions you cannot answer

    Tell us what the business keeps asking, what data you already hold, and what the role has to own.

  2. 2

    See a scored shortlist

    You see a short list of vetted candidates, each scored and briefed against your requirements.

  3. 3

    Run your own interviews

    You run your own interviews. We coordinate scheduling and answer anything the scorecard raised.

  4. 4

    Onboard into your warehouse

    Your data scientist starts in your warehouse, your notebooks, and your Slack, with payroll and compliance already handled.

Other software development
roles we place for

If the gap on your team is upstream or downstream of the analysis, these are the roles we fill next to it.

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Nearshore hiring advice from our team

Read more nearshore hiring advice

Frequently Asked Questions

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How fast can you place a data scientist?

Most placements run one to two weeks from first call to first day, covering sourcing, vetting, interviews, and onboarding. Flag an urgent role on the call and we prioritize it.

What is the difference between a data scientist and a data engineer?

A data engineer builds and maintains the pipelines that land your data. A data scientist works on what that data means, running the analysis and the experiments the business decides on. Teams with unreliable data usually need the engineer first.

Can I hire a remote data scientist without a local entity?

Yes. We handle payroll, taxes, benefits, and compliance in every LatAm country we place in, so you do not need an entity of your own.

Can a data scientist take on our AI work?

Some of it, yes. A data scientist can build and validate the models behind a feature, including scoring, recommendation, and forecasting work. If you need LLM or generative features shipped, that is an AI engineer, and if you need an existing model served and retrained reliably, that is a machine learning engineer. Describe the outcome on the call and we will tell you which of the three to hire.

Which tools do your data scientists work in?

Common ground includes Python, SQL, pandas, scikit-learn, dbt, Snowflake, and Looker. We match against your real stack.

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Hire your next LATAM developer

Fill in the form below and you will go straight to our calendar to pick a time that suits you. Here is what happens next:

  1. 1
    You choose a consultation time on the next screen
  2. 2
    We scope the role, seniority and timing on the call
  3. 3
    You meet 2 to 3 vetted candidates
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