A year-long journey or how we found a skilled Node.js developer

The magic of persistence in staff augmentation ✨

IT staff augmentation is one of the key services we offer in Red Jumpers agency. No matter whether you need a DevOps professional to protect your website, or a project manager to supervise your team - we will always find for you these superheroes.

A few weeks ago we managed to successfully close another interesting inquiry. One of our good partners was struggling to find a skilled Node.js developer for his old client. The pitfall in that situation was the necessity to work in the Pacific Standard Time zone. Of course, in our agency, we have partners worldwide, and it shouldn't have been a problem at all to find an appropriate candidate. But our work wouldn`t be so interesting if everything was so easy. That client wanted to support Ukraine during the hard war time and wanted to hire only Ukrainians for his project. Here was where the difficulties came in, as PST working time meant the developer should be available from 6 PM to 10 PM Kyiv time. And not many candidates were ready to work like that.

That was almost a year-long journey. We have found more than 16 candidates for that position, and all of them didn`t pass the technical interview with the client team. But not any rejection can stop our managers from closing a deal. So we continued to propose candidates and finally got a positive response from the client -  they were ready to hire a candidate from Red Jumpers, and the candidate was ready to work in PST. What is it if not the magic of persistence?