Despite the Investment Freeze, Developer Hiring Remains Busy... Diversification of the Recruitment Market

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwak Min-jae] Despite the harsh conditions in the startup investment market, companies are actively moving to secure key development talent. This period, when businesses must prove themselves with stable business models in the market, has instead become an opportunity for many companies to hire and nurture highly promising talent.

Services that enhance developers' capabilities to be ready for practical work, platforms that connect companies and developers with high matching rates for the perfect fit, and leading companies that directly cultivate development talent have emerged.

According to the industry on the 11th, ‘Port99,’ operated by TeamSparta, is a recruitment platform that allows large-scale applications from entry-level developers without complicated procedures and easy management. Partner companies using Port99 can easily view developers' resumes by job role and tech stack without separate downloads.

Corporate members using Port99 can see the first applicant within 10 minutes after posting a job opening. On average, each company receives more than 20 applications. Currently, over 700 companies, ranging from Series A startups to Kakao Ventures family companies, as well as prominent companies like Toss, Today’s House, and Woowa Brothers, are members of Port99.

Some IT companies are directly nurturing developers based on their solid capabilities. Woowa Brothers, the operator of ‘Baedal Minjok,’ introduced the developer training program ‘Woowa Tech Course’ in 2019 to expand the base of programmers. They also run the recruitment-linked program ‘Woowa Tech Camp.’ This program helps developers acquire necessary communication skills through team projects, in addition to technical abilities.

The training lasts 10 weeks, starting from programming basics and progressing to advanced courses. Even non-majors can understand programming languages and learn application development formulas to the level of maintaining and managing them. The courses cover both web backend and web frontend. Woowa Brothers fully cover the tuition fees for this training.

Indent Corporation is recruiting developers ahead of service advancement and global expansion. Led by Jeon Su-yeol, a well-known open-source contributor and developer who recently joined as interim CTO (iCTO), they are focusing on hiring core IT talent.

This year, the former iCTO who joined Indent Corporation will oversee the role of technical leader and focus on recruiting IT personnel with core competencies, accelerating the formation of a full-fledged development team. The main tasks for the recruitment positions will involve backend development for the B2B service ‘V Review’ and the B2C service ‘Spray.’

Team O2, which operates the car rental price comparison app Camoa, is recruiting backend developers. They will work on internal and external API (Application Programming Interface) development for Camoa. Candidates meeting certain conditions such as computer science and web service expertise can apply from entry-level.

Clobot, which develops robot solutions and services, is recruiting for autonomous driving developers in their research lab and robot application software developers. Recruitment is open to both new graduates and experienced candidates, with preference given to those majoring in robotics or computer science.

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