Engineer Performance & Satisfaction
What technical skills should I look for when hiring remote software engineers?
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Look for a mix of core technical stack skills and cross-cutting engineering practices:
Back-end engineering
•Strong in at least one major server-side stack (.NET/C#, Java, Node, Python, Ruby)
•Software architecture, APIs, databases, and cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)
Front-end engineering
•Modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
•Strong HTML/CSS and responsive UI implementation
AI / Machine Learning (if relevant)
•ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
•Integration of models into production services
Cross-cutting skills
•Security awareness and secure coding practices
•Testing, code reviews, CI/CD, version control (Git)
•Remote collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
Remote-ready fundamentals
•Excellent English communication
•Experience in distributed teams
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