Hire a Backend Engineer.

Backend engineers design the services, data models, and APIs everything else depends on. The hiring failure mode we see most often is over-indexing on a specific language when the market has stronger candidates one stack over — a strong Go engineer usually ramps on a Node codebase in weeks. We screen for systems judgment: data modeling, failure handling, and the ability to reason about load before it arrives. Node, Python, Go, and Java cover most of the demand we place.