How it works

From “we need someone” to a decision you can stand behind.

Post the role, review applications, run interviews, and make the call. Worthy keeps the details together from beginning to end.

Start with the person you need.

Write down the work, the skills that matter, and what strong evidence would look like. Every application is reviewed against that same bar.

Senior Backend EngineerRole Success Profile

Mission

Own the payments platform through 10× transaction growth without 10× headcount.

What matters

Technical depthOwnershipRelevant experienceSystems thinking

Evidence we’ll look for

Built and operated a production system, not just shipped features.

Drove a project forward without being asked to.

Direct prior work on structurally similar problems.

Reasoned about tradeoffs across a whole system, not one piece.

Candidates apply in one place.

Give candidates a clean careers page and a clear application. Every submission arrives in one place, with no forwarded PDFs or mystery inboxes.

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See what is actually there.

Worthy reads each application against your role profile and points to the source for every finding. Gaps stay gaps. They do not become made-up scores.

“Built and operated a distributed payments service handling ~40M transactions a month, including the migration off a monolithic ledger.”

Résumé · Orbital Systems

Potential gapNo Kubernetes experience identified.

UncertaintyInfrastructure ownership scope is not explicit.

The pool becomes a shortlist.

Applications are grouped by the evidence they contain. Nobody is auto-rejected, and your team decides what happens next.

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Assess, interview, and decide.

Assessments map to the dimensions you already defined. Interviewers share one scorecard. And when it's time to decide, a person makes the call with the whole story in view. The decision and its reason stay together.

Why we built it this way

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And team fit, measured honestly.

Add a team-fit round: feedback style, pace and autonomy, collaboration. Structured questions scored like any other dimension. A difference is not a rejection. It is a useful question for the interview.

Interview · shared scorecard

Problem solving4 / 5

Communication5 / 5

RecommendationStrong yes

“Clearest systems answer I’ve heard this loop.”

Ready when you are

Build a hiring processworth trusting.

Set the bar. Find the evidence. Meet the people who could make a real difference.

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