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Hires placed

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Annual savings vs. US hiring

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Days average time-to-hire

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How Function Health Hired 7 LatAm Senior Engineers Without Adding Recruiting Headcount During Hypergrowth
  • Industry
    Healthtech
  • Location
    US (Austin, TX)
  • Company size
    101–250
  • Website

TL;DR

Function Health was growing too fast for its two-person engineering recruiting team to keep up. Near helped them hire 7 senior LatAm engineers in 14 days on average, despite an 8-step hiring process, while saving $323,000 in annual payroll.

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How Function Health Hired 7 LatAm Senior Engineers Without Adding Recruiting Headcount During Hypergrowth

How Function Health Hired 7 LatAm Senior Engineers Without Adding Recruiting Headcount During Hypergrowth
Hires placed
7
Annual savings vs. US hiring
$323K
Days average time-to-hire
14
Employees
101–250
Industry
Healthtech
Location (HQ)
US (Austin, TX)

TL;DR

Function Health was growing too fast for its two-person engineering recruiting team to keep up. Near helped them hire 7 senior LatAm engineers in 14 days on average, despite an 8-step hiring process, while saving $323,000 in annual payroll.

The Challenge

Function Health is a healthtech startup. Named as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025, they’re rewriting preventive medicine with AI-analyzed MRI scans and 160+ lab tests. They’re valued at $2.5 billion and scaling fast.

They needed engineers who could automate manual workflows, harden backend systems, improve deployment reliability, strengthen QA, and support mobile and frontend performance as the product scales.

However, they were trying to scale quickly with only two internal recruiters while running an 8-step interview process that included deep technical screens, coding assessments, and culture-fit interviews.

They knew they couldn’t risk rushing the hiring process and wasting months on bad fits.

Like most fast-scaling teams, Function Health faced a familiar set of concerns about how to efficiently fill their candidate pipeline:

Concerns vs. What Actually Happened

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The Engineers Who Met the Bar

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Results

Near took on the sourcing, screening, and coordination work so Function Health’s internal team could stay focused on evaluating talent and making the right calls. As a result, they quickly hired 7 engineers to keep pace with their growth.

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What’s Next

Function Health will keep growing, and their hiring will have to continue to move at the same speed without compromising on their standards.

Their experience shows that companies don't have to choose between speed, quality, and the cost savings that come with hiring in Latin America. With the right recruiting partner, you can have all three.

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Willian
Willian
QA Engineer
Willian

Highlights:

  • Built QA processes from scratch supporting 5 squads and 30+ engineers, standardizing testing across teams.
  • Reduced regression issues by 40% by introducing automated test coverage across mobile, web, and APIs.
  • Cut release validation time from 1–2 days to same-day execution through automation and test pipelines.

Experience:

15+ years in technology, including 12+ years in QA and test automation across companies like Stone (fintech unicorn) and Sky. Specialized in mobile, web, and API testing, supporting multiple squads in high-scale environments.

Lucas
Lucas
Sr. Mobile Engineer
Lucas

Highlights:

  • Led a team of 4 engineers to ship and scale a React Native app used by tens of thousands of users.
  • Reduced crash rates and improved app stability by 30% through performance optimization and testing.
  • Delivered core product features end-to-end, improving user adoption and release velocity.

Experience:

10+ years in software development across startups and global SaaS companies (Braze, Colabra). Specialized in mobile development with React Native, leading teams and delivering production-ready apps end-to-end.

Facundo
Facundo
DevOps Engineer
Facundo

Highlights:

  • Built CI/CD pipelines that enabled multiple daily deployments across engineering teams.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 30% through cloud optimization and architecture improvements.
  • Led migrations of 20+ services from GCP to AWS and Kubernetes, improving scalability and reliability.

Experience:

12+ years in DevOps and cloud infrastructure across companies like MuleSoft, Bitex, and Mighty Block. Specialized in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and large-scale cloud migrations, supporting high-growth engineering teams.

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"Will working with an agency actually save us time?"

Near helped Function Health run 9 engineering searches and close 7 hires across backend, DevOps, QA, mobile, frontend, process, and staff-level roles. We handled sourcing, screening, and candidate follow-up so the internal team could spend more time making the right hiring decisions.

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"Will bringing in an agency just create more work for us to manage?"

Near's recruiters built a shared candidate tracker across all searches, capturing stage progression, compensation, and feedback. That gave Function Health an easy way to decide who to move forward, who to pass on, and who to revisit later.

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“Can Near’s candidates pass our assessment process?”

Function Health didn’t have to compromise their high bar. With Near, they kept a rigorous 8-step hiring process, closed 7 engineering hires, and still averaged 14 days to hire.

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"How do we know the candidates will thrive in a fast-moving environment, not just look good on paper?"

Near looked past logos and focused on the traits that matter in high-growth teams: ownership, adaptability, and the ability to solve problems fast. That helped Function Health hire engineers who matched the demands of the work.

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  2. $323K saved annually vs. US salaries (33%).
  3. 14 days average time-to-hire

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