I\'d appreciate help in fleshing out a set of criteria or \"outline\" for determ

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I'd appreciate help in fleshing out a set of criteria or "outline" for determining the most appropriate programmers for my situation as well as avenues to find these programmers.

I've put together a fully functional web application, which is build using jvm based languages, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. My background is in Finance and CS, and as a result I'm very comfortable with development/IT. In the initial stage, I need to: sure up security, refactor the current code base, and implement two relatively simple features.

As I'm finishing my project/business plan I'm struggling with what criteria to use in order to identify the programmers I need. At a high level, I know I need 2-3 (backend) programmers:

1 "Senior" or "Expert" programmer

1 to 2 "Mid-level" or "Competent/Proficient" programmer(s)

I know I should (and I will) find programmers that have worked on similar-type projects, but beyond that I'm unsure what criteria to look at. For example, should the senior/expert programmer have 10 years, 15 years or more of experience?

Explanation / Answer

You need programmers that are capable of doing the work. Number of years of experience is certainly an indicator of this capability, but not an absolute one.

That said, generally speaking, I'd say people with 5 years experience in your technologies should be capable of doing most any programming you need, and someone with 10 years experience ought to be capable of supervising such development. That sets a pretty high bar; expect to pay a reasonable sum of money for these people.

Note that Java is only about 15 years old, so someone with that much experience would have had to work with James Gosling himself.

When you are interviewing, you should ask questions that will highlight those skill sets you need, and ask the interviewees to describe their previous projects in detail. This will help you decide if the person can deliver on those features you need, irrespective of their number of years of experience.

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