Hire a tech support who diagnoses and resolves complex issues

Senior Latin American technical support engineers who work inside your helpdesk, on your hours, so your developers stay on the roadmap.

  • Reproduces the issue and writes the steps before escalating
  • Works your queue end to end, from triage to macros to SLAs
  • Costs 30 to 50% less than an equivalent US hire
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What a tech support engineer actually does

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Companies hire a technical support engineer to sit between their customers and their engineering team. The role picks up the ticket a general agent cannot close, works out whether the fault sits in the product, in an integration, or in the customer's own setup, and either resolves it or escalates it with the detail engineering actually needs.

It normally comes with the help center, the macros, and the pattern spotting that stops one bug generating forty tickets.

Deverr fills that seat with senior Latin American support engineers. We screen against the product they will answer for and the helpdesk you already run, and we match on the voice your customers already hear, so the first reply does not read like it came from a different company.

How we vet technical support engineers

Every technical support engineer we place clears the same screen before their profile reaches you.

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Reproduces before escalating

They can walk through a bug they reproduced themselves and the report they handed to engineering.

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Comfortable across tiered support

They take what tier 1 escalates, resolve what they can, and know which tickets genuinely belong with a developer.

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Real helpdesk experience

Ticket triage, macros, SLA targets, and queue hygiene inside Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, or Jira Service Management.

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Writes for two audiences

The same person explains a workaround to a frustrated customer and files a ticket a developer can pick up without a follow-up call.

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Remote communication

English is tested in live conversation, because a remote technical support engineer is the voice your customers hear all day.

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Signals we watch for

Repeated reschedules, thin interest in the call, or unprompted bluntness about pay all end a process. A distant time zone with no overlap plan means we dig a layer deeper.

The requirements we screen against

Area
What we require
Experience
4+ years in technical support for a software or SaaS product
Support tiers
Handling tier 2 escalations, with judgement on what moves to tier 3
Ticketing
Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, or Jira Service Management
Troubleshooting
Reading logs, error traces, and API responses to isolate a fault
Integrations
Diagnosing failures across webhooks, third-party apps, and SSO
Queries
SQL or admin-console querying to check a customer's actual data
Reproduction
Rebuilding a reported issue in a test account before escalating
Escalation
Writing bug reports with steps, environment, and expected behaviour
Documentation
Help center articles, internal runbooks, and macro upkeep
Metrics
Working to first response, resolution, and CSAT targets
Tooling
Comfortable in Slack, Jira, and Notion alongside the helpdesk
English
Written and spoken at a level customers read without friction
Security
Handling customer data, access requests, and PII appropriately
Soft skills
Problem solving, communication, planning and self management, collaboration, attention to detail, managing several projects, continuous learning
Degree
Not required, we evaluate demonstrated skill over credentials
Certifications
None required for this role

“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.”

Brandon Sheiner, Founder, Promethean Innovations, Inc. 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

Why support teams pick Deverr

Five things that hold on every technical support placement we make.

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We stay on after the placement

Technical support staffing does not end on day one. You keep a dedicated contact after the placement, so a coverage or process problem in month three still has someone attached to it.

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Matched to your helpdesk and product

Candidates are screened against the tools you run and the product they will answer for, so nobody learns your integrations on live tickets.

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Senior only, no juniors placed

Every support engineer has owned the technical side of support for a real product. You are not funding someone's first year in software support.

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Your business hours, your queue

LatAm support engineers work US hours, so the ticket that arrives at 10am gets answered at 10am and escalations reach engineering the same day.

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Payroll and compliance handled

We cover payroll, taxes, benefits, hardware, and compliance in every LatAm country we place in.

How hiring a technical support engineer works

Four steps from first call to first shift on your queue.

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  1. 1

    Share your support setup

    Tell us your product, your helpdesk, your ticket volume, and what the role has to absorb.

  2. 2

    Meet matched support engineers

    You get a short list, each candidate scored and briefed against your requirements.

  3. 3

    Interview your shortlist

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

  4. 4

    Onboard into your queue

    Your support engineer starts in your helpdesk, your Slack, and your docs, with payroll already handled.

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Nearshore hiring advice from our team

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Frequently Asked Questions

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How fast can you place a technical support engineer?

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 technical support engineer and a support rep?

A support rep owns the customer conversation. A technical support engineer owns the diagnosis behind it, reproducing faults and escalating to engineering with detail.

Can I hire IT support 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.

Which IT help desk tools do your support engineers work in?

Common ground includes Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, and Jira Service Management. We match against the help desk tool you already run, so nobody has to spend weeks learning it.

What if the support engineer is not working out?

Raise it with your dedicated contact. They stay attached to the account after placement, so the problem gets worked through with you instead of turning into a new search on your side.

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Hire a technical support engineer for your queue

Tell us what your support queue needs and we will get back to you within one business day. Here is what happens next:

  1. 1
    We review your role, your product, and your helpdesk
  2. 2
    We call you to scope what the engineer needs to absorb
  3. 3
    You meet scored candidates instead of a resume pile
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