☀️ 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.