Mission
5 courses
Tech Recruiting: Back End Engineering
Join Senior Software Engineer, Khalid Hamza, as he takes you into the world of back end development. In this mission, you'll learn the ins-and-outs on how software is developed, what a tech stack is and how to read technical resumes. We'll also cover the junior and senior talent personas of this discipline so you can better connect candidate profiles to the right position. This content is designed to build your technical understanding, confidence and success in recruiting for back end talent.
Skills covered
What you'll learn:
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Walk through the software development lifecycle from a back end engineering perspective to build a practical, grounded understanding of how these technologists work.
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Explore how back end engineers design and maintain the systems powering digital products, gaining insight into their tools, challenges, and value across each SDLC stage.
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Identify the tech stacks, programming languages, frameworks, and tools of back end development to establish credibility with both candidates and technical hiring managers.
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Apply back end talent personas and communication strategies to accurately gauge seniority, craft compelling outreach, and engage these specialists in their own language.
Presenters include
Khalid Hamza
Skills covered
What you'll learn:
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Walk through the software development lifecycle from a back end engineering perspective to build a practical, grounded understanding of how these technologists work.
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Explore how back end engineers design and maintain the systems powering digital products, gaining insight into their tools, challenges, and value across each SDLC stage.
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Identify the tech stacks, programming languages, frameworks, and tools of back end development to establish credibility with both candidates and technical hiring managers.
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Apply back end talent personas and communication strategies to accurately gauge seniority, craft compelling outreach, and engage these specialists in their own language.
This Mission Includes 5 Courses
Understanding how software is built is the single biggest unlock for any technical recruiter. In this course, follow the five-step software development process from the back end engineer's vantage point — where the focus is on data, logic, and infrastructure rather than the user interface. You'll come away with a grounded view of how these technologists approach their craft.
Follow a back end engineer through a real product build — from database design and API architecture to testing and deployment. Understand the systems they create behind the scenes and learn to spot the markers of strong back end craft when reviewing portfolios and conducting technical screens.
The fastest way to establish credibility with your technical hiring managers and candidates is to understand the technology they work with. In this Technical Toolkit course you will learn about tech stacks, programming languages, frameworks and the tools back end engineers depend on to do their work.
Back end engineers progress from writing basic API endpoints to designing distributed systems at scale. This course maps the talent personas for junior and senior back end developers — covering their day-to-day responsibilities, go-to technologies, career drivers, and common pain points. Apply these personas to gauge candidate seniority with confidence during technical screens.
Back end engineers evaluate opportunities differently from other developers. In this course, discover what back end talent prioritises when considering a move — from tech stack preferences to team culture signals — and learn how to position your roles and messages to cut through the noise.