🚀 We're looking for a Golang Developer to join Minitok.
Minitok, is a fast-growing social entertainment platform where users create, share, and discover short-form content.
You'll be a great fit if you have:
✅ 2+ years with Go
✅ Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
✅ Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
✅ Upper-Intermediate English or higher
⭐ Nice to have:
Kafka, RabbitMQ, gRPC, GraphQL, or high-load systems experience.
Ready to build reliable backend services, optimize performance, and contribute to a product used by thousands of users every day?
📩 Send your CV to nickolas@theselecty.com
Minitok, is a fast-growing social entertainment platform where users create, share, and discover short-form content.
You'll be a great fit if you have:
✅ 2+ years with Go
✅ Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
✅ Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
✅ Upper-Intermediate English or higher
⭐ Nice to have:
Kafka, RabbitMQ, gRPC, GraphQL, or high-load systems experience.
Ready to build reliable backend services, optimize performance, and contribute to a product used by thousands of users every day?
📩 Send your CV to nickolas@theselecty.com
💛 We Select, not Collect.
The best feedback we can receive is knowing our clients feel supported throughout the entire hiring journey.
“Working with Selecty is like having a recruiting assistant who never sleeps.”
We’re proud to help businesses find the right talent faster, smarter, and with less stress.
Thank you for the trust! 🤝
The best feedback we can receive is knowing our clients feel supported throughout the entire hiring journey.
“Working with Selecty is like having a recruiting assistant who never sleeps.”
We’re proud to help businesses find the right talent faster, smarter, and with less stress.
Thank you for the trust! 🤝
Looking for a recruiting partner?
Before starting the search, make sure you're recruiter-ready. Here's a quick 5-step checklist:
✅ Define the role and key responsibilities
✅ Separate must-haves from nice-to-haves
✅ Set a realistic salary range
✅ Align internally on the interview process and decision-makers
✅ Be ready to provide fast feedback
Great hiring starts with preparation.
The more clarity you have upfront, the faster your recruiting partner can find the right match.
📩 Need help with your hiring strategy? Let's talk.
Before starting the search, make sure you're recruiter-ready. Here's a quick 5-step checklist:
✅ Define the role and key responsibilities
✅ Separate must-haves from nice-to-haves
✅ Set a realistic salary range
✅ Align internally on the interview process and decision-makers
✅ Be ready to provide fast feedback
Great hiring starts with preparation.
The more clarity you have upfront, the faster your recruiting partner can find the right match.
📩 Need help with your hiring strategy? Let's talk.
🕵️ We’re looking for a Senior Mobile Developer (Flutter)
SHORTICA is building the next generation of short-form streaming – premium mobile-first series with a world-class video experience.
You should have:
• 5+ years of professional mobile development
• 2+ years of deep Flutter experience
• Proven track record with video streaming (HLS, adaptive bitrate, background playback)
• Strong knowledge of both iOS and Android ecosystems
Bonus points for:
• Experience with video infrastructure, CDNs, Node.js, PostgreSQL or Redis
💡What we offer: work directly with the CTO, influence product decisions, and help shape an exciting early-stage product.
📍 Full-time
📩 Interested? Send your CV to nickolas@theselecty.com
SHORTICA is building the next generation of short-form streaming – premium mobile-first series with a world-class video experience.
You should have:
• 5+ years of professional mobile development
• 2+ years of deep Flutter experience
• Proven track record with video streaming (HLS, adaptive bitrate, background playback)
• Strong knowledge of both iOS and Android ecosystems
Bonus points for:
• Experience with video infrastructure, CDNs, Node.js, PostgreSQL or Redis
💡What we offer: work directly with the CTO, influence product decisions, and help shape an exciting early-stage product.
📍 Full-time
📩 Interested? Send your CV to nickolas@theselecty.com
Why do great hires leave within a year? 📉
The mistake happens BEFORE the interview. Companies rush to hire without defining what success looks like.
Take a "hunter" vs "farmer" sales role mismatch.
Result? Departure in 7 months and an $85k loss in recruitment & missed deals.
A mismatch like this doesn’t just drain your budget – it kills team morale and delays results. One bad hire rarely stays just one bad hire.
To stop the cycle, you need to shift the strategy:
✓ Align expectations early
✓ Assess work style, not just CV skills
✓ Invest heavily in the first 90 days
The best retention strategy starts with better hiring.
The mistake happens BEFORE the interview. Companies rush to hire without defining what success looks like.
Take a "hunter" vs "farmer" sales role mismatch.
Result? Departure in 7 months and an $85k loss in recruitment & missed deals.
A mismatch like this doesn’t just drain your budget – it kills team morale and delays results. One bad hire rarely stays just one bad hire.
To stop the cycle, you need to shift the strategy:
✓ Align expectations early
✓ Assess work style, not just CV skills
✓ Invest heavily in the first 90 days
The best retention strategy starts with better hiring.
☀️ Sunday is a great day for new opportunities.
We're on the hunt for a DevOps Control Plane Engineer.
You'll build the control plane for an internal developer platform supporting 700+ apps at a multinational client, integrating Crossplane with AWS and Kubernetes.
You'll be a great fit if you have:
✅ 5+ years as DevOps / Platform Engineer
✅ 2+ years building AI agents
✅ AWS (EKS, Lambda) & Kubernetes/Helm
✅ Crossplane (or strong Terraform + K8s-native tools)
✅ Python (FastAPI), Bash, or PowerShell
⭐ Nice to have: IDP experience, GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), multi-cloud
📍 Remote
📩 Send your CV to nickolas@theselecty.com
We're on the hunt for a DevOps Control Plane Engineer.
You'll build the control plane for an internal developer platform supporting 700+ apps at a multinational client, integrating Crossplane with AWS and Kubernetes.
You'll be a great fit if you have:
✅ 5+ years as DevOps / Platform Engineer
✅ 2+ years building AI agents
✅ AWS (EKS, Lambda) & Kubernetes/Helm
✅ Crossplane (or strong Terraform + K8s-native tools)
✅ Python (FastAPI), Bash, or PowerShell
⭐ Nice to have: IDP experience, GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), multi-cloud
📍 Remote
📩 Send your CV to nickolas@theselecty.com
🫣 Let's be honest: are we listening, or just projecting our own fears?
We’ve all caught ourselves overanalyzing a candidate's answer because a previous hire hurt the team. But translating "I love teamwork" into "they just want free snacks" means we're missing out on incredible talent.
Swipe to see the "translation manual" we all need.
We’ve all caught ourselves overanalyzing a candidate's answer because a previous hire hurt the team. But translating "I love teamwork" into "they just want free snacks" means we're missing out on incredible talent.
Swipe to see the "translation manual" we all need.
✨ We're hiring: Scala Engineer (5+ years)
Looking for your next challenge? Join a team building high-performance, scalable backend systems for a leading British multinational enterprise software company.
Tech Stack:
✔ Scala 2.13
✔ Play Framework (Pekko-based)
✔ MySQL & Redis
✔ AWS
✔ Grafana & Kibana
What you'll do:
✅ Build and maintain robust backend services
✅ Optimize SQL queries and database performance
✅ Develop cloud-native solutions on AWS
✅ Collaborate in a modern CI/CD environment
✅ Work with functional programming principles and distributed systems
📍 Portugal / Spain
🗣 English Project
💼 Full-Time
📩 Send your CV to nickolas@theselecty.com
Looking for your next challenge? Join a team building high-performance, scalable backend systems for a leading British multinational enterprise software company.
Tech Stack:
✔ Scala 2.13
✔ Play Framework (Pekko-based)
✔ MySQL & Redis
✔ AWS
✔ Grafana & Kibana
What you'll do:
✅ Build and maintain robust backend services
✅ Optimize SQL queries and database performance
✅ Develop cloud-native solutions on AWS
✅ Collaborate in a modern CI/CD environment
✅ Work with functional programming principles and distributed systems
📍 Portugal / Spain
🗣 English Project
💼 Full-Time
📩 Send your CV to nickolas@theselecty.com
👔 Is everyone busy, but nobody has time to think?
The reason may be simple: burnout is coming.
A lunch break skipped because “there’s too much to do.” A Slack message answered at 10:47 p.m…
Nothing dramatic happens at first.
But then…
1 overloaded person adjusts. Others quietly compensate, and the pace resets to survival mode.
📊 According to Gallup’s latest workplace research, 40% of employees worldwide experienced significant stress the previous day. Managers report even higher levels of burnout than individual contributors.
Some organizations are responding by redesigning how work gets done. Microsoft, for example, introduced meeting-free focus time and invested in manager training to reduce overload and create more space for focused work.
Burnout works as a system that includes both capacity problem and process problems.
The earlier burnout signals are recognized, the easier it is to protect both people and performance.
React if the problem is familiar to you 💔
The reason may be simple: burnout is coming.
A lunch break skipped because “there’s too much to do.” A Slack message answered at 10:47 p.m…
Nothing dramatic happens at first.
But then…
1 overloaded person adjusts. Others quietly compensate, and the pace resets to survival mode.
📊 According to Gallup’s latest workplace research, 40% of employees worldwide experienced significant stress the previous day. Managers report even higher levels of burnout than individual contributors.
Some organizations are responding by redesigning how work gets done. Microsoft, for example, introduced meeting-free focus time and invested in manager training to reduce overload and create more space for focused work.
Burnout works as a system that includes both capacity problem and process problems.
The earlier burnout signals are recognized, the easier it is to protect both people and performance.
React if the problem is familiar to you 💔
Behind every successful hire is a process no one sees.
Dozens of conversations. Fine-tuned requirements. Feedback loops. New ideas. Different sourcing strategies.
Every partnership challenges us to think differently, and that’s exactly what makes recruitment interesting.
Thank you for trusting us with yours. 💜
Dozens of conversations. Fine-tuned requirements. Feedback loops. New ideas. Different sourcing strategies.
Every partnership challenges us to think differently, and that’s exactly what makes recruitment interesting.
Thank you for trusting us with yours. 💜
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🕵️ Why are more companies hiring T-shaped talent?
The World Economic Forum reports that 63% of employers see skills gaps as the biggest barrier to business transformation, while 39% of today’s core skills are expected to change by 2030.
A T-shaped professional brings deep expertise in one area and enough breadth to collaborate across disciplines, understand the business context, and adapt as priorities change.
Netflix, for example, emphasizes hiring people with strong judgment, curiosity, and the ability to make decisions beyond narrowly defined responsibilities. Employees are trusted to own outcomes, not just complete tasks.
Growing companies face the same challenge on a different scale.
✅ A Backend Engineer who understands product trade-offs.
✅ A Data Analyst who helps shape business decisions.
✅ A QA Engineer who improves the delivery process instead of only testing releases.
These are examples of people creating value beyond their core expertise.
The World Economic Forum reports that 63% of employers see skills gaps as the biggest barrier to business transformation, while 39% of today’s core skills are expected to change by 2030.
A T-shaped professional brings deep expertise in one area and enough breadth to collaborate across disciplines, understand the business context, and adapt as priorities change.
Netflix, for example, emphasizes hiring people with strong judgment, curiosity, and the ability to make decisions beyond narrowly defined responsibilities. Employees are trusted to own outcomes, not just complete tasks.
Growing companies face the same challenge on a different scale.
✅ A Backend Engineer who understands product trade-offs.
✅ A Data Analyst who helps shape business decisions.
✅ A QA Engineer who improves the delivery process instead of only testing releases.
These are examples of people creating value beyond their core expertise.
Drowning in CVs but still can’t hire “the one”?
This is one of the most common problems we help tech teams fix.
That’s why we’re offering a free 30-minute consultation to only 5 companies this month.
In that call we review your hiring process, show you exactly where strong candidates drop off, and give you a concrete next step.
Only 5 spots. Until 31 July.
💌 Fill out the form.
This is one of the most common problems we help tech teams fix.
That’s why we’re offering a free 30-minute consultation to only 5 companies this month.
In that call we review your hiring process, show you exactly where strong candidates drop off, and give you a concrete next step.
Only 5 spots. Until 31 July.
💌 Fill out the form.
The recruiter says:
“Your expectations are too high.”
The hiring manager says:
“The candidates you send are not good enough.”
And somewhere between these two opinions another week passes without a hire.
Funny thing?
The recruiter sees what the market can offer. The hiring manager sees what the team actually needs.
That’s why before opening another search, answer 3 questions:
1. What are the true must-haves? (Not everything in the job description is a deal-breaker.)
2. What problem should this person solve? (A title rarely tells the whole story.)
3. What does success look like in 6 months?
At The Selecty we help companies align expectations, define the right profile, and find people who truly fit the role.
Need help with your next hire? Send us a DM 📩
“Your expectations are too high.”
The hiring manager says:
“The candidates you send are not good enough.”
And somewhere between these two opinions another week passes without a hire.
Funny thing?
The recruiter sees what the market can offer. The hiring manager sees what the team actually needs.
That’s why before opening another search, answer 3 questions:
1. What are the true must-haves? (Not everything in the job description is a deal-breaker.)
2. What problem should this person solve? (A title rarely tells the whole story.)
3. What does success look like in 6 months?
At The Selecty we help companies align expectations, define the right profile, and find people who truly fit the role.
Need help with your next hire? Send us a DM 📩
Once upon a time…
Emma found your vacancy. She loved the product. Applied the same day.
The interviews went great. The offer was signed. Everyone lived happily ever after.
Oops. That’s a fairy tale.
In real life, you’re sitting with your hiring manager wondering where Emma went.
“She seemed so interested.”
“She said she loved the product.”
Then comes the familiar message:
“The candidate has decided to move forward with another opportunity.”
Or no message at all.
According to Glassdoor, 86% of candidates read employer reviews before they apply, and 55% won’t apply if a company’s rating doesn’t meet their expectations.
By the time Emma joins the interview, she’s already decided whether your company feels like the right place.
Can you eliminate ghosting completely? Probably not.
Can you give great candidates fewer reasons to walk away? Absolutely.
Sometimes silence is the only feedback a hiring process gets.
Emma found your vacancy. She loved the product. Applied the same day.
The interviews went great. The offer was signed. Everyone lived happily ever after.
Oops. That’s a fairy tale.
In real life, you’re sitting with your hiring manager wondering where Emma went.
“She seemed so interested.”
“She said she loved the product.”
Then comes the familiar message:
“The candidate has decided to move forward with another opportunity.”
Or no message at all.
According to Glassdoor, 86% of candidates read employer reviews before they apply, and 55% won’t apply if a company’s rating doesn’t meet their expectations.
By the time Emma joins the interview, she’s already decided whether your company feels like the right place.
Can you eliminate ghosting completely? Probably not.
Can you give great candidates fewer reasons to walk away? Absolutely.
Sometimes silence is the only feedback a hiring process gets.
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Researchers recently checked almost 200,000 real resumes and found something unexpected: about 1% of them contained hidden instructions meant for AI systems.
A candidate can slip in text that a recruiter will almost certainly miss – but an AI scanning the CV will read it. And that text can quietly influence how the model rates or recommends the person.
This is called prompt injection – basically a Trojan horse in the hiring process.
It sounds weird until you remember how many companies now let AI rank CVs before a human ever looks at them. A 2026 study showed these injections can actually boost a candidate’s ranking – sometimes even pushing weaker applicants above stronger ones.
So before you fully trust the shortlist, there’s one question worth asking: «Who’s really screening whom?»
A candidate can slip in text that a recruiter will almost certainly miss – but an AI scanning the CV will read it. And that text can quietly influence how the model rates or recommends the person.
This is called prompt injection – basically a Trojan horse in the hiring process.
It sounds weird until you remember how many companies now let AI rank CVs before a human ever looks at them. A 2026 study showed these injections can actually boost a candidate’s ranking – sometimes even pushing weaker applicants above stronger ones.
So before you fully trust the shortlist, there’s one question worth asking: «Who’s really screening whom?»
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