What a software developer actually owns
- Feature development against product requirements
- Bug triage, reproduction, and fixes
- Code review and technical documentation
- Test coverage for the code they ship
- Deployment and release participation
What we test before you meet anyone
- A live session reading and modifying an unfamiliar codebase, not a blank-page exercise
- How they explain a trade-off they made and later regretted
- Their debugging method on a failure they cannot immediately reproduce
- Code review behaviour, tested with a deliberately flawed pull request
Where software developer searches usually go wrong.
Take-home tests are now trivially completed with AI, so a clean submission proves very little. Plenty of candidates produce flawless work offline and then cannot explain a decision inside it, or reason about code they did not write.
Tell us about the role.
Send a short brief and we will tell you whether this is a search worth running before anyone pays anything.
A short description of the role. We come back on whether we can fill it, and what it would take.
From approved brief to the candidates worth meeting, screened and interviewed.
Replacement search at no additional charge if the hire does not hold.
10 business days is what we aim for rather than a promise. Senior, specialist, and confidential searches often run longer. We tell you what to expect for your role once we have seen the brief.
Roles we fill alongside software developers.
Teams hiring a software developer usually brief us on one or two of these in the same conversation.
Before you send the brief.
How do you screen software developers?
Why is it hard to hire a software developer?
What does a software developer in the Philippines typically own?
How does hiring a software developer through HireTalent.ph work?
How long does the search take, and what if the hire does not work out?
Ready to hand off this software developer search?
Send a short brief. We come back on whether we can fill it and what it would take.
























