IT STAFFING FROM ARGENTINA · FOUNDED DECEMBER 2006
Senior engineers from Argentina, working your hours and under your direction.
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2 founded: "December 2006",
3 firstClient: "still with us",
4 longestTenure: "15 years, one account",
5 overlapNYC: "8 hours a day"
6};
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8blackbox.hire("your-next-engineer");We started working with Alvaro and BlackBox in 2005! He put together a team that built hundreds of projects for impressM, and still works with us to this day. Our team at BlackBox grew from one developer to over 10 fulltime resources and our hope is to continue our long term partnership with great success.
Who we are
BlackBox has been placing engineers with US companies since December 2006. In that time our clients have been through funding rounds, pivots, acquisitions and a crisis or two. The teams stayed.
That is the only claim on this page we would ask you to weigh heavily. Everything else about a staffing partner can be fixed. People leaving cannot.
Who this is for
You need senior engineers faster than your market can produce them. Every open role has been open too long and the good candidates are already taken.
You need one person, not a team. Someone senior who joins your standup, uses your tools and reports to your lead. Not an agency, not a project, a colleague.
You have work that needs to still be maintained in three years. Which rules out most of the ways of buying engineering quickly.
What we do
A team that works only for you, under your direction, in your repo, on your standup. You decide what they build. We handle everything about employing them.
ImpressM has run BlackBox teams since 2006, across custom software, web and AI.
One or two senior people inside the team you already have. Same hours, same rituals, same Slack. They answer to your lead, not to us.
Warehousing1 in Berlin added a senior full stack engineer to an engineering group split between Germany and India, and got round the clock coverage out of it.
The teams we place build AI too.
ImpressM has had a BlackBox AI team inside their product since 2024, alongside their custom software and web teams.
That is as much as we will say about it, and that is rather the point. What our clients build with us stays theirs to talk about.
Process
Twenty minutes. You tell us the role. If the right person is already on our team, you meet them. If not, we go and recruit them for you.
Two or three people, chosen for the role, when they come from our own team. Longer when we are recruiting for you, and we tell you which it is on the call rather than after.
There is no trial period. If someone is not right in the first month we replace them at no cost, which we think is the better version of the same promise.
Three month minimum, then thirty days notice whenever you want. You own the code, all of it, from the first commit.
Time zones
We work 9am to 6pm, Argentina time. Argentina does not observe daylight saving, so we never move. You do.
That is 8am to 5pm for most of the year and 7am to 4pm in the winter. Seven or eight hours of your working day with our whole team live on it. You ask at 11am, you get an answer at 11am.
That is 5am to 2pm in your summer, 4am to 1pm in your winter, and it is the arrangement our West Coast clients like most. The first half of our day runs before you are online: no meetings, no interruptions, the part of the week where the hard problems actually get solved. The second half is your entire morning, which is when standups, reviews and decisions happen anyway. You wake up to progress and then you have the team live until lunch.
Case studies
Real partnerships, real results. Explore how we’ve helped companies scale their development capabilities across the globe.
ImpressM has partnered with BlackBox since 2006, maintaining one of the longest-running collaborations in our company’s history. Over nearly two decades, we have built and maintained three dedicated teams across web, software, and AI development.
Gorilion, a digital agency serving over 500 wineries and beverage brands, required a development partner capable of rapid WordPress delivery integrated with Commerce7. BlackBox deployed an experienced team of 2 developers who quickly embedded within their workflow, leading to an expanded engagement.
Warehousing1 needed reliable, around-the-clock development coverage to support global operations across Germany and India. BlackBox provided a senior full-stack developer integrated into their distributed engineering team, ensuring 24-hour development continuity.
Testimonials
“I was working with family to help me with my overflow programming needs and there came a point where I asked that family member to step up and go full time so we could continue to grow our business. Unfortunately he turned me down so I had to look at other options. I then reached out to Blackbox, extremely nervous about hiring a developer in a foreign country to help support our growing business and programming needs. Alvaro worked with me to prequalify several developers, make me comfortable about the process and we found a perfect match. So far Mariano and German have been invaluable to our team and I am hoping to add another team member from Blackbox soon.”
Companies we’ve worked with
Meet the founder
I am Alvaro Diaz, founder of BlackBox.
Since 2006 I have built engineering teams for companies in the United States. Along the way those teams have delivered more than a thousand web projects, but the projects are not the part I am proud of. The teams are. Four of our developers have been on the same client’s account for over ten years, two of them for more than fifteen.
Finding someone who can code is the easy part. Finding someone who will still be there in three years, who knows why the system was built the way it was, and who the client trusts enough to stop checking on, is the whole business. That is what I have spent twenty years learning how to do.
Contact
Tell us how your business runs and we will tell you honestly where AI would move the needle and where it would not. Forty five minutes, no charge, no obligation. Most of the value is in the second half of that sentence.
Hiring instead? Same form. Tell us the role and we will tell you within one business day whether we have that person.