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Taiwanese startup in Silicon Valley eliminates the difficulties in hiring top developers
Arc.dev, a Taiwanese founded startup based in Palo Alto, California with office in Taipei, has made it easier to hire top-caliber developers from different parts of the world.
The platform simplifies the entire hiring process by sourcing, vetting, and matching remote technical talents with companies or individuals who are looking to hire permanent full-time or contractual remote engineers and teams.
"It is essentially taking care of that technical assessment part so that clients know that the technical talents are qualified and that their skills are completely up to par," said Christine Orchard, Head of Marketing at Arc in an interview.
Tips for hiring a technical talent
Orchard said those who are looking to hire developers should not only look into the technical qualifications. She said to evaluate a candidate based on role and team fit, the role fit is where Arc.dev comes in as all of their developers are pre-vetted before their profiles are shown on their platform.
For the team fit, Orchard said there are five aspects to evaluate a candidate – effective communicator, autonomous worker, humble, has growth mindset, and passionate.
She said being an effective communicator and autonomous worker or those able to work without micromanaging are important traits of an employee, especially those working for startups.
Orchard said humility can be seen on how candidates answer questions. “Are they arrogant? Are they really proud of their accomplishments? or do they present themselves in a way that's humble?” she said.
Meanwhile, she said “growth mindset is something that I think is very important, kind of goes with humility."
She said to check if the candidate is passionate either about his talent or on the product that you’re hiring the talent to work on.
“Working with someone that you want to work with, that you actually like, is so important to your long-term success. If you're a founder you're not in this for one year or two years, this could be a five or ten-year part of your life that you're really pouring everything into so you need to look [beyond technical capabilities], but also, they're a good person," Orchard said.
Developers salary
Orchard said the usual way of determining the salary of a developer is by taking the local market as a benchmark, by looking at job boards.
When it comes to remote work, employers use the location of the developer. For example, salary for developers in San Francisco are usually the benchmark, and for others who live in a city with lower cost of living, multiply that benchmark to a figure less than one.
"Some companies do that for example, that's how they will adjust the salary based on remote locations. There are a few companies who do universal salaries... same salary no matter where you live,” she said.
Arc.dev created a tool for those who would like to know the current pay rate for developers from different countries, tech stack, and seniority level. Check it out here.
"We have all this information based on the developers in our network… we created this tool to make it super simple and just a really good reference point to help get you started," Orchard said.
How to effectively work with developers
Orchard also shared some tips on how to work with developers effectively. "It's really about going into the relationship with two things in mind… go in with that growth mindset and really make sure you're keeping people at the core of your mindset,” she said.
She advised to figure out the communication tools that you need to use with the developer, set up regular meeting cadence to identify the items that everyone needs to work on as well as the help that each member needs to get through periods of growth and adaptation within the company.
She also advised to document every action item that needs to be done or has already been accomplished.
"Documentation doesn't sound sexy but basically use Notion or something like it to document every single thing that you say you're going to do action items… If you don't have things documented, it's not going to happen, things aren't going to move forward so just make sure you're documenting," she said.
"This documentation applies to development, marketing, sales teams… it may sound overkill now but it really saves the team when someone needs to go back and look for something when a teammate is in a different time zone or offline," she added.
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