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Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Data Scientist? Data Scientist is not a new role; however, with computing resources becoming more affordable and technology advancing more rapidly, more and more organizations are employing people in these...
Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Software Engineer in Test? These roles are similar to QA engineers in that they tend to have a lot of the same responsibilities around test cases, planning, and quality...
Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Technical Lead? The many different flavors of this role can be called Development Lead, Technical Lead, Lead Software Engineer, Software Engineer Lead, Software Manager, or ...
Return to Technical Hiring Guide QA engineers are almost always on the software-building side of the organization, and are responsible for making sure that software meets the quality bar. Their responsibilities include testing software...
Return to Technical Hiring Guide System Administrator System administrators, often referred to as sysadmins, are in the operational side software. They help set up servers and hardware for the software to run on,...
Return to Technical Hiring Guide DevOps Engineer This is a newer role and represents the bridge between the worlds of building software and the operations required to support it. As more organizations move into...
Return to Technical Hiring Guide Web Developer Also sometimes called a User Interface (UI) developer or User Interface (UI) engineer in larger teams, the primary focus of this role is often the front-end part of a website....
Return to Technical Hiring Guide Database Administrator (DBA) This role is all about data, and more specifically, databases. A DBA may be responsible for database and data schema design (which can be...
Return to Technical Hiring Guide Middle-Tier Engineer Middle-tier engineer roles are less common (it is much more common to have back-end engineers that work in the middle tier), but can be found in larger companies or teams...
