How to hire engineers to refactor legacy codebase
Our teams responsible for shipping highly code in a waterfall like schedule that integrates with tons of other libraries and is very perf, cpu and memory critical. There have been many folks that have worked on this for the last decade or so. What types of engineers would be interested in working in such an area? How would one motivate them? How would you go about hiring high quality talent to do the same? What level of experience should we look for? How do avoid fatal pitfalls?
Perhaps try hiring older people who've seen it all, are less inclined to chase after latest fads and more likely to have discipline to follow through and deliver customer value.
Keep micromanagement types away from the project and let the competent engineers work.
This would be something I am looking for. Any more details /contact info?