What We Look For in Senior Engineers

It's not just about algorithmic knowledge. It's about system design, pragmatism, and mentorship.

Seniority isn't the number of algorithms you've memorized. It's judgment under uncertainty: knowing what to build, what to skip, and how to bring a team along with you.

The signals we look for

• System design: sound trade-offs across reliability, cost, and time.
• Pragmatism: shipping the right-sized solution, not the cleverest one.
• Mentorship: making the engineers around them measurably better.
• Ownership: following a problem through to production and beyond.

How we interview

We use realistic problems over trivia — a design discussion grounded in an actual system, and a coding exercise that looks like the work. We're listening for how a candidate reasons, not whether they recite the optimal answer.

Junior engineers are measured by the code they write; senior engineers by the decisions they make and the people they lift.

Get this right and you don't just add capacity — you raise the ceiling for the whole team.