Fig. 13 — TypeScript engineering
Hire TypeScript developers
Engineers who join a codebase that already exists and become useful in it before they start having opinions about it.
Reading before writing
Arriving in a codebase somebody else wrote, the first task is not to improve it. It is to understand why it ended up this shape — which decisions were made on purpose, which are leftovers from a deadline, and which strange corner is holding up three things that will fall over if it moves. We work with what is there. Where a pattern genuinely deserves changing, it gets argued with a reason attached, not delivered as a pull request nobody can review.
- The project's conventions followed, including the ones we would have argued against
- Formatter, lint and tsconfig taken from the repository rather than from habit
- Refactors kept separate from the change that prompted them
- Questions asked where the team can see them, so what is learned stays with the team
Working inside your process
You have a way of working already, and bringing people in is not an occasion to renegotiate it. We work in your repository, your branching, your review and your pipeline. If something there will hurt later — a build that passes with a type error, a suite nobody trusts, a deploy with no way back — you will hear it once, with the reasoning, and then we work the way you have decided.
Where this stops being the right arrangement
This is people joining your team, under your technical direction. If what you actually want is for someone else to hold the architecture, run delivery and answer for the result, that is a different engagement — and naming it now is cheaper than discovering it halfway through a quarter. We build products end to end too, and that conversation is easier before a contract than after one.