[splendidfailure]

As a female developer, I wasn't terribly offended by line item #8 (regardless of whether it was intended to imply diversity or it was a joke in questionable taste), but I did find it strange that female seemed to equate to "junior" developer in this context. Did I read that wrong?

[venomsnake]

He didn't want them hired for their expertise. More as an "assistants" with emphasis on the first syllable.

But having gender balanced workplace is indeed a perk. A few of my friends (female) that work in female only environments usually say stuff like viper nest (on bad days) or hen house (on good ones). And when in 2004 after my insistence to hire a girl on the dev team in my then company the workplace become much more civil, the language somewhat tamer, the general tidiness of the rooms increased and because she was awesome slow and steady coder the quality of the shipped code increased a lot.

[Terretta]

Because of the use of the slash in the original post, I suspect he meant this as:

    ((junior||front end)&&(back end)) developers.

I took it to mean some of the developers in question would be senior (non-junior) backend developers.

[splendidfailure]

I like your interpretation. If for no other reason, it would seem to back up the idea that the OP is merely bad with words and was in fact describing the current composition of his team (a team diverse in gender, ethnicities, levels of experience, etc)