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 Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia AI-augmented development means your existing engineers ship more work by handing AI the well-specified parts of the job and reviewing every line that comes back. It raises output without raising headcount. It does not remove the reviewing, and reviewing is where most teams quietly lose the gain they thought … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The Android questions worth asking in 2026 cover Jetpack Compose state, coroutine cancellation, and a target-SDK migration the candidate actually shipped. Everything else on the standard list is vocabulary, and vocabulary is the part candidates study the night before. Ask about the migration first. It is the … Read more
By Mike Carter, Growth and Partnerships, KORE1 Roblox did not lay off engineers in 2026. Headcount went the other way. Up 24 percent last year, to 3,065 full-time staff, and more than 2,300 of those people build product. The pressure people are sensing is real, though. Full-year bookings guidance got cut from roughly 22 to … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Zendesk is not running a company-wide engineering layoff in 2026. Global headcount grew roughly 10 percent last year to about 6,821 people, and engineering is still the largest function at around 45 percent of the company. The cuts that did land were regional and support-side, led by … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Android developers working in the United States earn a base salary of $110,000 to $180,000 in 2026. Most senior app engineers sign between $140,000 and $165,000 before any bonus or equity gets counted. Platform and automotive specialists clear $215,000. Big-tech total compensation runs past $340,000. The headline … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 U.S. Rust developers earn a median base near $150,000 in 2026, with most offers landing between $125,000 and $190,000. Senior systems and blockchain specialists clear $210,000 to $300,000 in total compensation. The spread is not noise. Rust is a skill that sits inside four barely related jobs, … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring a blockchain developer in 2026 starts by naming which of four very different jobs you actually mean, then verifying the candidate’s on-chain work yourself before anyone schedules an interview. Base pay runs $125,000 to $230,000 depending on the lane. Six to ten weeks to close, typically. … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 As of 2026, a U.S. ServiceNow developer earns a median base near $125,000, and most offers fall between $105,000 and $155,000, while certified architects and implementation specialists clear $180,000 to $250,000. What makes this role odd to price is not the title. Every “ServiceNow developer” writes on … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. TypeScript developers earn a median base around $130,000, with most offers landing between $100,000 and $170,000, and senior full-stack or platform engineers on large TypeScript codebases clearing $200,000 in total pay. That range is wide because the title barely means anything on its own. … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. blockchain developers earn a median base near $140,000, with most offers landing between $110,000 and $185,000, and senior smart-contract or protocol engineers in DeFi clearing $200,000 to $300,000 once tokens and equity are counted. That band hides more than it shows. No title I … Read more
