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Should Your Company Hire Remote Full-Stack Developers?

By: Tania Brooks on December 17, 2018 3 Comments

 Is your company seeking to hire a qualified full-stack developer? It seems like an easy enough task—create a job listing, read resumes, conduct technical interviews and make the hire. Finding engineers who understand every layer of the stack is difficult, however. Companies compete for the best and brightest full-stack developers and, unfortunately, they are in shockingly low supply.

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What’s the solution? One way to circumvent the full-stack developer talent shortage is to leverage telework. By seeking to hire remote full-stack developers, you can gain to a global pool of talent.

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There are many other benefits to hiring remote full-stack developers. However, hiring remote developers isn’t always the right fit. Read on to see if your company is ready to hire remote full-stack developers.

Is Your Company Looking to Save Money on Office Space?

Hiring remote full-stack developers is a major decision. When companies think about utilizing remote talent, they usually think of the headache of adopting a new form of work and of managing employees who work out of the office. However, it is also important to note one of the major benefits of leveraging remote developers: the cost savings.

Other benefits to consider: boosted productivity, higher workplace satisfaction and lower incidences of interpersonal issues between coworkers. If you believe your company might be able to benefit from hiring and managing full-stack developers remotely, then you may want to consider beginning your hiring journey seriously.

Does Your Company Prioritize Quality or Community?

Finding the top full-stack developers can be extremely difficult. By opening up your search and tapping into global talent by seeking developers looking for remote work opportunities, you can put a greater emphasis on quality and technical excellence.

If your company is more focused on creating a cohesive community or company culture, you may want to focus on hiring full-stack developers that can come into the office, interact with coworkers and build a rapport with managers, clients and fellow developers.

However, this isn’t to say that it’s impossible to foster caring and authentic professional relationships with remote developers. It may simply prove more challenging.

Are You a Brick-and-Mortar or a Click-and-Mortar Company?

If you run a traditional brick-and-mortar organization that’s been around for a while, it may be more difficult to adjust to change. If you run an online business or if you’re a burgeoning small business or startup that is heavily reliant on tech, then it may be significantly easier for you to adopt telework.

If you do run a traditional business with a traditional office and traditional approach to project management, it may take a bit of adjusting to accommodate for remote workers.

You may want to try out remote work in a trial capacity by bringing on remote freelancers or allowing current full-time developers to work from home for a few days out of the week. If you find your company easily adjust to the changes, then you may want to consider hiring fully remote full-stack developers as well.

Do You Want to Access Global or Local Full-Stack Development Talent?

As mentioned earlier, full-stack developers are in incredibly high demand. Unless your business is headquartered in a major city, it’s going to be next to impossible to find the top full-stack developers. If your company is just starting or simply short on cash, then it can be difficult to bring on such an expensive full-time employee as well.

If you want access to global talent, you’ll need to open up to remote work. Through telework, even companies in small cities and towns can gain access to top talent. If you’re more interested in fostering local talent, however, you might not be interested in leveraging telework.

Conclusion

Hiring remote full-stack developers isn’t always a simple process. It requires your company to remain open, adaptive and innovative. Without these traits, managing remote full-stack developers will prove challenging to say the least.

How can you ascertain if your company is ready to bring on remote talent? First, it’s important to assess how much cost savings, boosted productivity and higher workplace satisfaction rank for you. In addition, it’s important to gauge whether  community outweighs the desire for the production of quality code.

Finally, you’ll want to access your technological readiness and ability to adapt. Are you willing to search for global talent and leverage technologies, platforms and software programs that will assist you in this endeavor? If so, you may want to consider hiring remote full-stack developers.

— Tania Brooks

Filed Under: Blogs, DevOps Culture, Doin' DevOps, Leadership Suite Tagged With: developers, devops, devops culture, full-stack developers, remote workers

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