Our Story

From a Brazilian banking floor to American boardrooms.

NearSmarter exists because of a simple observation: the best engineers we'd ever hired weren't in San Francisco. They were in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Buenos Aires.

How it started

Luby Software was founded in 2003 to build core banking systems for Brazil's largest financial institutions. Twenty years later, we'd shipped trading platforms, payment gateways, AML systems — and trained generations of engineers in the process.

Around 2018, US clients started asking the same question: 'Can your team join ours?' The answer was always yes — and the experience was always positive. NearSmarter formalized that pattern.

Why we exist

American companies need senior engineering capacity. They struggle to hire it locally — slow timelines, exploding salaries, intense competition.

Latin America has world-class engineers shipping for the world's best companies. Our job is to make that match — at the bar of an in-house hire, with the velocity of a startup, at the price of a sensible budget.

What we're building

A nearshore engineering partner where 'partner' actually means something — equity-aligned with your outcomes, embedded in your team, accountable to your roadmap.

Not a marketplace. Not a body shop. A team you can call yours.

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