Being a start-up or enterprise Founder/CEO, there can be a few hurdles you can face while hiring software developer. Are you wondering whether there is any strategic method of hiring a Software Developer? We got you covered.
Recruitment is a high-budget process, so if you have a limit to expenses spent on hiring software development teams, then you need to get innovative and base the recruiting process on 3 main sources– the technical and soft skills they can bring to the table, their potential to grow into a better-skilled professional of the software development field and last but not least their attitude in the workplace. So let’s learn how to hire the high performance Software Developer for your company-
Useful Tech skillsets
What are the technical skills that they can present to you? Will it benefit your product development? Can you find an approach to benefit from those tech skills? To begin an analogy of their skill sets, you need to create a multi-purposeful interview process. A lot of applicants will apply, to narrow down the candidates efficiently, try these-
- Verify the candidate technical ability, and be informed on their past experiences in different software platforms and their latest education. Look through their LinkedIn profile.
- Assign a task to complete. Make sure this assignment aligns perfectly with the job role for example on DevOps infrastructure support. Do not make it too difficult, just enough to understand the candidate’s capabilities.
- Review their job application, ask them about their potential and check if their personality and attitude match your development team culture.
In order to hire a rightful software developers in India, It needs to have right technical skills and industry wise product development experience. We listed below a few skillsets for candidates desiring product engineering, Python Development, Web Development, QA Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps engineering, Cloud engineering and Mobile app developer roles.
Skills a Software Developers requires-
Technical skills-
- Backend Development: Python, PHP, Node.js, JAVA, Golang, Full-Stack Development and .Net Development.
- Frontend Development: HTML, Javascript, HTML, CSS, React.js, Angular and Graphic illustrations
- Mobile app development: iOS Development, Android Development, Flutter, Swift, and React.Native development
- DevOps Management: Cloud infrastructure engineering, and CICD pipeline development
- Data Lifecycle Management: AI/ML development
Soft skills-
- Teamwork
- Decision-making skills
- Analytical skills
- Creative thinking
- Innovative thinking
Software Developer needs to be aware of software development trends and tools such as these, can have the given soft skills. You can easily find these qualities in a candidate through an assignment and interview.
Skills to hire DevOps engineer –
Technical skills-
- Linux- the system administration and management, operation of Linux servers, Python Scripting, and Bash shell scripting.
- DevOps Infrastructure tools awareness, Cloud automation techniques, configuration management tool and many more.
- Knowledge of software testing, quality analysis, infrastructure monitoring management etc
- Cloud computing skills in product release pipeline and cloud computing service. Developer should understand most of the cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google cloud platform, Amazon web services etc.
- Skills in coding in backend development and and scripting with python or bash.
- Testing skills for DevOps automation pipeline and more
- Code analysis, threat investigation and other IT infrastructure security skills.
- Monitoring tools proficiency in Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk and many more
- Container-related tools proficiency like Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS, Amazon EKS, LXC and etc…
- Awareness of code integration changes.
Soft skills
- Communication skills
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Critical thinking
- Problem solver
- Understands issues fast
- learner
Skills a Cloud engineer requires-
- Linux skills
- Cloud Platform management skills
- Python, Groovy, Bash Scripting, and Java
- Network management skills
- DevOps Continuous Delivery and Deployment pipeline
- Containerisation tools proficiency such as: Kubernetes and Docker
- Cybersecurity skills: VAPT, infrastructure security posture assessment
Skills a Mobile app developer requires-
- iOS development skills
- Android development thinking
- UI/UX designing research
- Agile software development
- Scrum management
- Code Quality analysis
- Communication skills
- Software Testing
- Product Lifecycle management
- Product release cycle management
- iOS, Android, Swift, Java, Kotlin, React Native, and flutter
Potentiality
The other important factor to check while onboarding a software development engineering team is their potential to scale further. Are they passionate to explore more about the software development field? Do they have right innovative attitude where they always want to evolve in their career and get information on the cutting edge technologies? In order to find the fit candidate for software development jobs, these are crucial steps-
- Well-build foundation in the field of software development technologies.
- The developer’s ability to transform product and understand all transition processes of the business sector.
- Good at team building and motivating others.
- Shows growth in positions and inspire others.
For a start-up, they have to be
- An all-rounder
- Interest in working for a start-up
- Can be leaders when needed
- Confident and good self-self esteem
- Determined
- Dedicated to learning
Flexibility
A positive attitude is an important quality to look for in a candidate for a start-up as a software developer role. A software engineer with a positive attitude is more dedicated and productive than a skilled software engineer with a negative attitude.
A dedicated software developer needs these key attitudes-
- Commitment to product development.
- Motivated and inspired in development platforms and services.
- Sharing of knowledge.
- Good treatment of peers.
- innovative .
You can base your recruitment of a software developer for a start-up like a Full-Stack Developer a cloud engineer through these three steps. This way you can build a positive workspace.
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