Software development hiring guides, engineering team building strategies, and technical talent insights — covering full-stack, frontend, backend, mobile, and embedded software engineering roles across all major tech stacks.
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A blockchain developer job description should name the chain and contract language, the test toolchain, how much value the code will control, who holds signing keys, how the code exercise is delivered, and the pay, tokens included. Base pay starts around $125,000 for mid-level smart contract work this year … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The best blockchain developer interview questions put real contract code in front of the candidate and ask who can change it, where money could leave, and which textbook answers stopped being true after Ethereum’s 2025 Pectra upgrade. Save definitions of consensus and hashing for a recruiter call. … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Managing developers when you’re not technical works if you manage outcomes instead of code: define finished in business terms, look at working software every week, and borrow technical judgment for the calls you can’t make yourself. You don’t need to read the code. You need to stop pretending the … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A TypeScript developer job description works when it tells candidates where the code runs, which TypeScript and Node.js versions ship to production, how strict the compiler settings are, and what the base salary is. Pay is the one most postings get right, often because a state law … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A Rust developer job description should name where the compiled code runs, the toolchain and edition you build with, how much unsafe code the team maintains, how new crates get approved, and what the seat pays. Mid-level Rust engineers are getting about $135,000 to $170,000 base this year, and … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A good Python developer job description says which kind of Python the job is (web services, data pipelines, machine learning, or automation), which Python version and framework run in production, and what the base pay is. As for money, mid-level base runs about $100,000 to $132,000 this … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Build vs buy software decisions hinge on whether a process is the reason customers choose you over a competitor. If it is, customize it or build it. If it isn’t, adopt the software’s standard process and change how your team works. Most mid-market build requests fail that test. The … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Good mobile developer interview questions in 2026 ask about a store release the candidate owned, an app that survived process death and a dead network, and the exact point where their framework ran out. Trivia predicts nothing. A candidate can define a TurboModule, a composable, and a … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A Golang developer job description should say what the Go code actually does, whether engineers from Java or Python can learn Go on the job, what Kubernetes means in your shop, and the pay band. For mid-level and senior Go roles, that band runs roughly $125,000 to $190,000 base. … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a frontend developer in 2026, decide what the seat owns before you pick a framework, budget $95,000 to $170,000 in base salary for mid-level to senior talent, and screen with a pull request review instead of a portfolio. Portfolios and finished take-homes got cheap once … Read more
