Tag: Hiring

The most common hiring instinct for Developer Experience is to look for a Backstage developer. That misses the point. Here is the profile that actually makes a DevEx team work — and how to screen for it.

Companies adopting Backstage reflexively hire a "Backstage Developer" and wonder why nothing improves. The hard part of a Developer Portal isn't writing the code — it's knowing what to write, and that takes a different kind of person.