Silver.dev is a technical recruiting firm founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, with a strong presence in Buenos Aires. It specialises in placing senior engineers from Latin America with startups worldwide, operating on the premise that quality and long-term retention matter more than speed and volume. The firm was founded by Gabriel Benmergui, a career Staff Engineer with hiring manager experience, and positions itself as a recruiting partner built from within engineering rather than from the outside looking in.
The firm works exclusively at the senior level, focusing on building durable engineering teams rather than filling seats on a short-term basis. Alongside placement, Silver.dev offers advisory services for founders and engineering leaders navigating technical hiring and team-building, as well as English coaching for developers seeking to compete for global roles. It also runs a Slack community for seasoned engineers across Argentina.
Silver.dev's client base is technology startups worldwide. Its commercial approach emphasises transparent pricing from the outset and optimises for retention rather than transactional throughput - a deliberate contrast to what its founder describes as the volume-driven, speed-over-quality norm across much of the recruiting industry.