Your Mexico engineering hub: we build it, we operate it, you own it when you're ready.

MESHubs (Mexico Engineering Shared Hub) is CodersLink's Build → Operate → Own model: we build and operate a dedicated Mexico engineering hub for you — recruitment, payroll, HR, and compliance included — with no legal entity required on your side. You direct the work and the roadmap, and you can take full ownership of the team when it's ready. Designed for companies scaling 15 to 100+ engineers.

No. CodersLink's Mexican entity employs your hub's engineers, so there's no incorporation, tax registration, or local HR build on your side. NetProtect built a 40-person Guadalajara team this way over 18 months, then took it onto its own payroll through the Own phase. If you later want your own entity, the Own phase handles the transfer.

During Build and Operate, engineers are employed by CodersLink in Mexico, with compliant local contracts and full benefits. They work exclusively on your roadmap, in your tools, reporting to your managers — you run the work; we run the employment. If you choose the Own phase, employment transfers to your own Mexican entity.

You do. Under the engagement agreement, work product, code, and inventions created by your hub's engineers are assigned to your company — not to CodersLink and not to the individual engineer. That assignment is designed to survive an Own transfer, so ownership stays continuous whether the team sits under our entity or yours.

The Own phase is built into the MESHubs model: when you're ready, the team can move to your own Mexican entity with tenure, compensation, and team structure intact, and CodersLink hands over payroll, benefits, and HR records in an orderly transition. Transfer terms are set out in your master services agreement (MSA) — we'll walk through them on the discovery call.

Weeks, not quarters. Hub design happens in week 0, the first batch of vetted engineer profiles is ready for your review within 5 business days of kickoff, and seats fill in parallel, each reaching a signed offer at roughly 21 days, then one to two weeks to day one. NetProtect grew its Guadalajara team from 6 to 40 people this way over 18 months.

MESHubs is designed for teams scaling from 15 to 100+ full-time engineers. Below that, a dedicated hub usually isn't the right economics — start with Staff Augmentation instead: senior engineers embedded in your team on per-engineer contracts, then graduate to MESHubs when you're ready to scale. Same partner, same model, same standard.

MESHubs is priced as a markup on each engineer's compensation, plus a transfer fee when the team moves onto your entity. The standard markup is 15% with recruiting included; larger expansions run as low as 12%. Compensation is benchmarked to CodersLink's Tech Salaries Report, the employment layer sits inside the model rather than stacked on top, and we never take a cut of the engineer's pay. Your rate card within one business day.

Clients report the outcome directly: TradeTech's CTO says CodersLink developers cost "around 30% less," and BetterRX reports "30%–40% off our operating costs."

Your hub works your hours. Mexico's tech hubs — Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexico City — run on Central Time and have not observed daylight saving since 2022, so you get 7–8 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern, Central and Pacific that never moves. Standups, pairing and incident response happen live, not asynchronously — a structural difference from offshore teams several time zones away.

Yes — banking and financial services is CodersLink's third-largest placement vertical. Q2 Banking built its Mexico engineering team through MESHubs, hiring 57 engineers across development, QA, architecture, and product. Hubs run with IP assignment, NDAs, access controls, and documented device and security policies built to pass vendor risk review — audit-ready practices, stated plainly, not third-party certifications.

Every engineer is vetted to the Top 1% Standard, our six-skill framework benchmarked to Silicon Valley: target-environment experience, an AI-augmented workflow (Cursor, Copilot, and Claude in daily use is baseline, not a premium tier), quality standards, the ability to explain complex systems simply, measurable impact, and English fluent enough to debate a pull request. Vetting includes a live technical screen and reference checks.

MESHubs includes one free backfill per role per year — we source, vet and onboard the replacement at no cost, and any further backfill is priced in your agreement before you start. Beyond that, retention is managed at the team level: salary benchmarking, career development, and hub culture. CodersLink's voluntary turnover runs at 15% annually. Attrition risk sits with us, not your roadmap.

MESHubs runs on a master services agreement (MSA) with a twelve-month minimum term that renews annually. You scale seats up or down within it as your roadmap changes, and the Own phase is available whenever you're ready to take the team in-house — on the transfer terms set out in the same agreement.

An EOR runs payroll; it does not find or keep the engineer. An outsourcing firm delivers a statement of work; you do not own the team. MESHubs sits between them: we recruit, employ and operate a team that works only on your roadmap, with a transfer path built in. Our comparison hub lays out the five models side by side, including staff augmentation vs managed services and staff augmentation vs EOR. Evaluating a specific outsourcer? See the BairesDev, Softtek and Wizeline comparisons.