ROOTED MIAMI · FOR COMPANIES

Build your team in Miami. Hire engineers who are here to stay.

Rooted engineers aren’t passing through. They play in the Sunday run club, mentor FIU students, host the padel night, and call Miami home. Our hypothesis, and what Rooted measures: engineers embedded in community stay longer, so the team you build here is the team you keep.

Simulated data: illustrates the talent signal Rooted would provide; not real results.

400 synthetic engineers generated from a fixed seed. Pay rows marked “Illustrative” are placeholders until real benchmarks replace them.

Rooted engineers in the pool

400

Simulated community members

Open and opted in

120

30% chose to hear from companies

Rooted or Grove level

49%

Median 1.8 years in Miami

Bilingual

56%

36% mentor students

TALENT MAP

Who's rooted here, by stack and seniority

Rooted engineers by stack and seniorityBig number: engineers in the pool. Small number: open to opportunities and opted in. Tap a cell to filter; tap again to clear. Cells under 5 show as “<5”.
Simulated counts of rooted engineers by stack (rows) and seniority (columns), with the number open to opportunities and opted in.
StackJuniorMidSeniorStaff+
Backend
Full-stack
Frontend
Data / ML
DevOps / Platform
Mobile
Security
Product

All stacks · all levels

Rooted engineers

400

In the Rooted community

Open and opted in

120

30% of this group

Rooted or Grove level

49%

Embedded in community for a while

Median years in Miami

1.8

Living here, not passing through

Bilingual

56%

English plus another language

AI-trained

40%

Hands-on AI build training

Shipped a project

156

561 hackathon projects built

Mentor students

36%

FIU, MDC and UM mentees

Pay benchmarks: Full-stack

Annual base salary by seniority. Miami local vs. remote roles held from Miami vs. Austin vs. New York. Showing Full-stack; pick a stack above to compare another.

  • Miami, local employer
  • Miami, remote role (estimate)
  • Austin
  • New York City
JuniorSource: BLS OEWS May 2025 (remote row estimated), 2025-05
Miami, local employer
$103,000
Miami, remote role (estimate)
$111,000
Austin
$104,000
New York City
$131,000

Miami local is 21% below NYC for the same role.

MidSource: BLS OEWS May 2025 (remote row estimated), 2025-05
Miami, local employer
$133,000
Miami, remote role (estimate)
$142,000
Austin
$134,000
New York City
$167,000

Miami local is 20% below NYC for the same role.

SeniorSource: BLS OEWS May 2025 (remote row estimated), 2025-05
Miami, local employer
$166,000
Miami, remote role (estimate)
$175,000
Austin
$169,000
New York City
$206,000

Miami local is 19% below NYC for the same role.

Staff+Source: BLS OEWS May 2025 (remote row estimated), 2025-05
Miami, local employer
$199,000
Miami, remote role (estimate)
$191,000
Austin
$210,000
New York City
$225,000

Miami local is 12% below NYC for the same role.

SKILLED HERE

Engineers who keep leveling up in Miami

Companies hire where the skills are. Rooted engineers keep upskilling together: hands-on AI build trainings and Miami hackathons (like the one this prototype was built at), where projects actually ship.

AI-trained

40%

Completed a hands-on AI build training

Hackathon projects

561

Built at Miami hackathons by pool members

Shipped a project

156

39% of engineers have something live

Simulated. Use the “AI-trained only” filter on the talent map to slice by skills.

WHAT COMPANIES GET

Four ways to work with Rooted

Engineers use Rooted for free. Companies pay for hiring access and retention, which funds the experience that keeps engineers here: more rooted engineers, more companies, more reasons to stay.

Talent access

  • Introductions to rooted engineers who are open to opportunities and opted in to being visible
  • Aggregate talent map by stack and seniority to plan a Miami office
  • Warm referrals through rituals and mentor cohorts, not cold outreach

Pricing TBD

Retention package

  • Every engineer you relocate gets the Rooted welcome package: community, purpose, identity, career
  • El Pana, a local buddy who checks in and helps them build a life here
  • Aggregate, anonymized retention reporting; never an individual's wellbeing or plans

Pricing TBD

Community presence

  • Host a tech talk or a ritual at your office
  • Sponsor a recurring ritual: a run club, a padel night, dominoes
  • Your engineers mentor FIU, MDC and UM students

Pricing TBD

Co-host a hackathon or AI training

  • Train your future hires on the stack you actually use
  • Meet engineers while they build, not in an interview loop
  • Give back: open seats for FIU, MDC and UM students

Pricing TBD

REQUEST TALENT

Tell us who you’re hiring

We introduce only engineers who are open to opportunities and chose to be visible.

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