Hiring and Career Tools for Engineering Teams

Finding the right engineering talent or the right engineering role can be a bottleneck. Toptal aims to remove that friction by matching companies with pre-screened freelance software developers in under 48 hours. New projects can start with a no-risk trial to ensure the fit is right before a larger commitment is made.

For engineers on the job market, Triplebyte offers a centralized technical assessment built by engineers. Instead of running through the same screening gauntlet at every company, a single evaluation can open doors at firms like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart, which allow recommended candidates to skip their own screening steps. The implied speedup is significant: a job search that is O(1), not O(n).

If you are preparing for interviews yourself, InterviewCamp.io provides hours of system design content. The platform breaks down interview prep into fundamental building blocks and runs live system design discussions weekly to complement the on-demand material.

APIs, Security, and Infrastructure Services

A handful of new and established services are worth evaluating for your stack, from geolocation to application security.

  • IP geolocation: IP2Location has been providing IP address geolocation data since 2002. Its database and API can detect location, proxies, and more than 20 other parameters. The technology is cited in over 700 research papers and used by many Fortune 500 companies. ipdata is another option, offering a reliable IP geolocation API that also detects proxies and identifies the company associated with an IP address, trusted by 10,000+ developers.
  • Application security in CI: Security tooling has not always kept pace with modern development workflows. A new breed of products aims to change that by letting developers lead AppSec. Engineering teams are adding security bug testing to their CI pipelines using tools like StackHawk and Snyk.
  • AWS knowledge: For those navigating the cloud, the Educative.io course on the Good Parts of AWS filters out the hype and focuses on the parts of the platform you'd be foolish not to use. It was created by former senior-level AWS engineers with 15 years of experience.
  • Stateful JavaScript: FaunaDB lets you effortlessly add state to your JavaScript apps. It offers a generous free tier to get you started.
  • System design learning: To balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software, check out the Educative.io learning track on Scalability and System Design for Developers. This four-course track is joined by more than 300,000 other learners.
  • Feeds at scale: With getstream.io you can build, scale, and personalize news feeds and activity streams. The API is free up to 3 million feed updates, and client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and .NET. More than 400 companies rely on Stream for production feed infrastructure, including apps with 30 million users. Stream is hiring DevOps and Python/Go developers in Amsterdam.

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