How to Hire Software Developers: Getting Top Talents for Your Project
ScienceSoft has 34 years of experience in software development outsourcing.
Possible hiring models: in-house payroll, team augmentation, dedicated team. |
Key steps of the hiring process: defining requirements to resources, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, team building. |
Talents required for software development: software architect, back-end developer, front-end developer, DevOps engineer, QA engineer. |
Costs: depending on the hiring model (see details). |
ScienceSoft provides all necessary talents for hire under both team augmentation and dedicated team outsourcing models. We assist with onboarding and team building of our experts as well as help businesses optimize the costs.
Models of Hiring Developers
Before hiring software developers, you should decide which hiring model works best for you: in-house hiring, team augmentation, or a dedicated team. ScienceSoft advises to study such criteria as legal employment status, management responsibilities, as well as payment models to understand the pros and cons of each model.
To find out about all implications of hiring models in detail, check ScienceSoft's in-house vs. outsourcing overview.
Software architect
Plans out software architecture (microservices, multi-tenancy, headless, etc.), oversees architecture compliance with the initial performance, availability and scalability requirements.
Backend software developer
Delivers code of the server-side scripts, sets up databases and clouds, performs API integrations.
Frontend software developer
Implements UI design mockups and delivers code of the client-side scripts.
DevOps engineer
Establishes the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline to speed up software releases.
QA engineer
Creates and runs tests based on software requirements, logs testing results, verifies overall software compliance with the established quality standards.
Consider ScienceSoft’s Outsourcing Services
With over 34 years of experience in outsourced software development, ScienceSoft offers team augmentation and dedicated team services.
Team Augmentation
Hire experienced talent to eliminate staff shortage or skill deficiency in your development team. We guarantee:
- Onboarding in under 5 days.
- Fast and easy scale up and down (1 week).
- Developers who are proactive and open to challenges.
- Shrewd balance of technical and business knowledge in understanding of your processes
Dedicated Team
Hire a self-managed team of skilled developers to work on your project. We guarantee:
- Needs analysis by our business analysts with 5–9 years of experience.
- Development launch in 2–3 weeks.
- Team management by a full-scale Project Management Office.
- Shrewd balance of technical and business knowledge in understanding of your processes.
- Transparency in cooperation
Why Choose ScienceSoft as Your Software Development Vendor
- In IT since 1989.
- Over 3,600 success stories.
- Dedicated .NET, Python, C++, Go, Java, PHP, JavaScript departments.
- IBM, Nestle, NASA JPL, T-Mobile, and Rakuten Viber among clients.
ScienceSoft is the name we would recommend to every company seeking a committed IT services provider. We have been working with ScienceSoft for 6 years and our relationships covered multiple areas such as software development of server-based systems with desktop and mobile clients, software testing, software consulting and system integration. ScienceSoft professional staff has the willingness to endeavor best efforts to ensure project success. We are especially impressed with the high quality of the deliverables.
Markku Ursin, CEO, BroadSoft
How to Hire a Developer: Key Steps
1. Defining requirements to candidates
Before you start searching for developers to deliver your project, ScienceSoft recommends seeking for IT consultants, who will help you prepare a software requirements specification (SRS). When designed properly, this document contains detailed information on the technical skills (programming languages, platforms, development tools) that you need to look for in the future candidates.
To form accurate soft skill requirements (communication abilities, mentorship experience, problem-solving skills, etc.), consult your PM, software architect, or a team lead: these are the people who will work closely with the developers, and their preferences matter.
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ScienceSoft's tip: Divide technical and soft skills into ‘must-haves’ and ‘nice-to-haves’ depending on project specifics and the talents you may already have on your team, as you need to balance out the aptitudes. ScienceSoft also finds it effective to help candidates with solid 'must-have' skills acquire nice-to-have skills via internal trainings. |
2. Screening and interviewing
In case of in-house hiring, entrust the screening and first-round interviewing of software developers to the HR department.
In case of outsourcing, you start with the vendor search. Once you find and contact a suitable vendor, you receive their assistance in choosing required talents:
- For a dedicated team – you discuss your project needs with a vendor, receive their proposal with a project plan and cost/time estimations, and proceed (or don’t) to the next step – requesting CVs for assembling a self-managed team – based on your impression of their offer.
- For team augmentation – a vendor analyzes your requirements and provides you with the CVs of fitting candidates from their pool.
After the HR department or a vendor shortlists the top candidates, it’s time for an in-depth technical interview with a PM, a team lead and a software architect. ScienceSoft recommends to break the interview into 2–3 stages and run a technical test. The interviewers should focus on a candidate’s technical savviness (adherence to coding guidelines, ability to solve architecture challenges, etc.) and general attitude (being progress-oriented, complying with the established processes, openness to communication) to make sure they won’t hold back your project or bring unnecessary negativity into the team’s dynamic.
3. Hiring
When done in-house, all the legal processes mostly lie with the HR department. In vendor cooperation, the vendor remains an official employer of the developers, which saves your company all the legal paperwork trouble. The key cooperation-related document that you should expect from the vendor in both team augmentation and dedicated team models is Service Level Agreement.
Vendors - including ScienceSoft - are responsible for using a wide range of SaaS collaboration tools to set up two-way communication between:
- project stakeholders on your side and the developers you hired,
- the developers on their team and the developers on your vendor’s team (for team augmentation).
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ScienceSoft's tip: To manage pricing quotes, control delivery and payments dates, as well as monitor vendor KPIs, you need to set up the vendor management process. Self-managed vendors like ScienceSoft assist you in this process by sharing access to their internal reporting and project collaboration systems. |
4. Onboarding
The multi-step interviewing for in-house hiring significantly shortens the onboarding period as it generally helps select a natural fit for your working environment. Still, any accommodation to new conditions takes time, and this time depends on a person.
If you don’t have much time to spare and want your hired developers to full-on dive into the working processes as soon as possible, your best solution is to cooperate with a vendor. ScienceSoft's software developers for hire are extremely flexible and can adapt to new project conditions in just under 1 week. It can take up to 2 weeks in case of the dedicated team model, but an on-site visit can significantly speed up the process.
5. Building a team
To create a team, you need to build proper communication between the team members. For an in-house development team, launch team-building training or let the team have a test drive by working on a small project or a project part to practice communication techniques and problem-solving approaches.
If you don’t have enough time and resources to provide complex team training, ScienceSoft recommends to opt for a dedicated self-managed team. With this model, you won’t need to worry about solid team building processes as the vendor will take care of them.
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ScienceSoft's Tip: If your project requirements need more than 10 people working on it, make sure large teams are divided into several smaller ones. ScienceSoft's experience has shown that 5–7 members is an optimal number for smooth communication and efficient project cooperation. |
Technologies We Use
Front-end programming languages
Languages
Practice
21 years
Projects
2,200+
Workforce
50+
ScienceSoft uses JavaScript’s versatile ecosystem of frameworks to create dynamic and interactive user experience in web and mobile apps.
JavaScript frameworks
Practice
13 years
Workforce
100+
ScienceSoft leverages code reusability Angular is notable for to create large-scale apps. We chose Angular for a banking app with 3M+ users.
Workforce
80+
ScienceSoft achieves 20–50% faster React development and 50–90% fewer front-end performance issues due to smart implementation of reusable components and strict adherence to coding best practices.
By using a lightweight Vue framework, ScienceSoft creates high-performant apps with real-time rendering.
Back-end programming languages
Practice
19 years
Projects
200+
Workforce
60+
Our .NET developers can build sustainable and high-performing apps up to 2x faster due to outstanding .NET proficiency and high productivity.
Practice
25 years
Projects
110+
Workforce
40+
ScienceSoft's Java developers build secure, resilient and efficient cloud-native and cloud-only software of any complexity and successfully modernize legacy software solutions.
Practice
10 years
Projects
50+
Workforce
30
ScienceSoft's Python developers and data scientists excel at building general-purpose Python apps, big data and IoT platforms, AI and ML-based apps, and BI solutions.
Practice
10 years
Workforce
100
ScienceSoft delivers cloud-native, real-time web and mobile apps, web servers, and custom APIs ~1.5–2x faster than other software developers.
Practice
16 years
Projects
170
Workforce
55
ScienceSoft's PHP developers helped to build Viber. Their recent projects: an IoT fleet management solution used by 2,000+ corporate clients and an award-winning remote patient monitoring solution.
Practice
4 years
ScienceSoft's developers use Go to build robust cloud-native, microservices-based applications that leverage advanced techs — IoT, big data, AI, ML, blockchain.
Mobile
Practice
16 years
Projects
150+
Workforce
50+
ScienceSoft’s achieves 20–50% cost reduction for iOS projects due to excellent self-management and Agile skills of the team. The quality is never compromised — our iOS apps are highly rated.
Practice
14 years
Projects
200+
Workforce
50+
There are award-winning Android apps in ScienceSoft’s portfolio. Among the most prominent projects is the 5-year-long development of Viber, a messaging and VoIP app for 1.8B users.
Practice
11 years
Projects
85+
Workforce
10+
ScienceSoft cuts the cost of mobile projects twice by building functional and user-friendly cross-platform apps with Xamarin.
ScienceSoft uses Cordova to create cross-platform apps and avoid high project costs that may come with native mobile development.
ScienceSoft takes the best from native mobile and web apps and creates the ultimate user experience in PWA.
Practice
8 years
Projects
300+
ScienceSoft reduces up to 50% of project costs and time by creating cross-platform apps that run smoothly on web, Android and iOS.
Databases / data storages
SQL
Our Microsoft SQL Server-based projects include a BI solution for 200 healthcare centers, the world’s largest PLM software, and an automated underwriting system for the global commercial insurance carrier.
We’ve implemented MySQL for Viber, an instant messenger with 1B+ users, and an award-winning remote patient monitoring software.
Azure SQL Database is great for handling large volumes of data and varying database traffic: it easily scales up and down without any downtime or disruption to the applications. It also offers automatic backups and point-in-time recoveries to protect databases from accidental corruption or deletion.
NoSQL
Our Apache Cassandra consultants helped a leading Internet of Vehicles company enhance their big data solution that analyzes IoT data from 600,000 vehicles.
ScienceSoft has helped one of the top market research companies migrate its big data solution for advertising channel analysis to Apache Hive. Together with other improvements, this led tо 100x faster data processing.
We use HBase if your database should scale to billions of rows and millions of columns while maintaining constant write and read performance.
Flexible Cooperation
ScienceSoft offers fast (1–5 days) scaling up/down of augmented or dedicated teams and can cooperate with other vendors/teams you have.
Fast Onboarding
Our developers need just up to 1 week to fully adjust to your processes or requirements and start showing top productivity.
Reduced Costs
We leverage best practices and existing custom components to deliver more code in less time, helping you to minimize project costs.
ScienceSoft is a global software development and IT consulting company headquartered in McKinney, Texas. As part of our software development outsourcing services, we offer team augmentation and dedicated team options to help customers organize software development projects in an easy, productive, and cost-effective way.
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