Hire IT Talent: Engineers Who Keep It Running
How many developers have you hired who could add features but not fix what broke? We look for the people who keep a codebase healthy, not only the ones who grow it.
Frontend
React, Vue or plain JavaScript, with real judgement about performance and accessibility rather than only framework familiarity.
Backend
APIs, databases and the boring reliability work. We test for how they handle failure, not how fast they can scaffold.
Mobile
iOS, Android or cross-platform, including the store and release process most job descriptions forget to mention.
DevOps
Deployment, monitoring and backups. Often the highest-leverage hire a small team can make, and the most commonly skipped.
QA
People who find problems before customers do, and who can write a bug report a developer can act on.
What our technical screen looks for
Reading code, not only writing it
Most of the job is understanding what someone else built. We test that directly.
Explaining a trade-off
A candidate who can defend a decision and name what it cost is worth more than one with a longer stack list.
Working with ambiguity
Real briefs are incomplete. We look at what questions they ask before writing anything.
Handover discipline
Whether the work they leave behind can be picked up. If the answer is no, the hire is a future liability.
Beyond the Hire
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