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Hire a Full-Stack Engineer who can do the job — and prove it in 30 minutes.

Full-stack engineers develop and maintain features across both client and server sides. You handle the trade-offs between front-end user experience and back-end performance, ensuring seamless integration. SealHire’s interviewer runs a structured, adaptive conversation built for this role, records it, and hands your team a sealed report where every score links to the moment that earned it.

What the interview probes

The 5 skills a Full-Stack Engineer is interviewed on.

Each is probed with follow-ups built from the candidate’s own answer, and scored against the level you set — with the quote and the timestamp behind every score.

1. Front-End

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

2. Back-End

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

3. Database

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

4. System Design

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

5. Testing

Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.

What a strong candidate shows

The brief the interviewer works from.

The work

  • Develop and maintain front-end features using modern frameworks
  • Implement back-end services and APIs to support front-end needs
  • Design and optimize database schemas for efficient data access
  • Collaborate on system design to ensure scalability and reliability
  • Write and maintain tests to ensure code quality and coverage

What it takes

  • Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development
  • Experience with a modern front-end framework like React
  • Comfortable with server-side programming, preferably using Node.js
  • Understanding of database design and querying
  • Familiarity with testing frameworks and practices
Interview format

30 minutes, at the level you are hiring for.

Length

About 30 minutes of live conversation, taken from a link on any device, at any hour. No app, no account.

Levels offered

Entry / Junior · Mid-level · Senior · Lead / Staff / Principal · Manager · Director / Head of. The brief sets the level; the questions and the bar move with it.

What you get

A sealed recording and timestamped transcript, integrity signals observed during the interview, and a report with a recommendation and the evidence behind it.

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