Out of our 26 employees, about 22 have an engineering background and 18 of those are our software developers. We are currently transitioning to autonomous teams to give engineering teams control over which projects to accept. Usually, engineers support project managers when it comes to feature planning, or when it comes to what we can sell to the client. This mostly depends on the team, the project, and the client we are working with. (Some clients are more open than others to our suggestions. ;)
Besides that, both founders have a strong technical background. Stephan and Mathias are long-time friends who had a small company selling hardware and software to friends back in the mid-90's. They later went on to study software engineering at a university of applied sciences. During that time Stephan became very interested in the context of web development while Mathias was more focused on software generation techniques. They wanted to create a software generator for e-commerce applications, and bitExpert was born. These days bitExpert builds custom applications for our clients and helps bootstrapping products as well.
With passion and expertise, we transform our clients' ideas into business value by using state-of-art technology. We use PHP, Java, Angular, and ExtJS developing web applications. Docker is currently playing a very big role in development as well in our production environments. Regarding databases we like to use PostgreSQL with all it's latest features (e.g. JSON support), but also use MongoDB and Redis.
Automated financial management to save, plan, and invest all in one place
Palo Alto, Boston, or Remote (US)
Many companies claim to be engineering-driven, but few actually are. After much internal discussion, we agreed that the most salient attributes of Wealthfront’s culture exemplify how engineering-driven we are. It’s apparent in everything we do:
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Our CTO, Kenan, has spent his entire career building early stage startups from the ground up. He has a strong focus on building infrastructure to scale and support an amazing user experience without compromising on security and speed. Kenan now brings this expertise to Point. As we build our engineering team, we’re committed to leveraging newer technologies to rapidly iterate and scale while solving complex problems. This gives us a competitive advantage over incumbents, since traditional financial services companies are known to run on mainframes and take many months and millions of dollars to build a single feature. For example, Wells Fargo spent $500M to develop their mobile app, while we have been able to build similar functionality in a third of the time for less than 1 percent of the cost.
When we think about solving problems, we consider more than just the technical implications of the implementation. We think deeply about how engineering can make the product deliver the best user experience by designing best in class APIs to correspond to our UX design. While there are certainly confines in which we need to operate, our team finds clever solutions to build around potential bottlenecks. Since we are in the financial services space, it’s very important for us to also maintain high availability and reliability. We are methodical in our approach to choosing the technology we want to leverage when we need to make major changes to the infrastructure.
In order to focus on our core competencies, we are deliberate about future proofing our technology throughout each iteration. For example, we leverage GraphQL as it enables us to create APIs at a much faster pace, has a self-documented API, is supported by large organizations who require reliability, enables us to test out the API in a “Playground” without having to set up a client, and allows for extensibility as we build out more functionality. These are the kinds of considerations we take into account when deciding which technology to adopt. We also evaluate the feasibility of maintaining the infrastructure with the small and nimble team we currently have.
We spend a lot of time thinking about things like the UX of CLI interfaces, how to install and distribute software, and how painful upgrading to the next version might be. Building our roadmap is a collaborative exercise between all members of the company and our users – who are mostly other engineers.
We have early customers who help us drive our roadmap at all levels from issues to feature requests. For example, they let us know which connections they need and give us feedback about our deployment strategies. In the future, we'll allow users to upvote and react to issues as a way to inform our decision-making.
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Feature flagging and toggle management for continuous delivery
Oakland, CA / London, UK / Remote
One of the things we love about working at LaunchDarkly is that we are making life better for engineering teams around the globe. We have four engineering values:
We approach hard problems with an engineering mindset. We're not afraid of big challenges, which is why we invested heavily in a modern, distributed scalable delivery system, even when the company was small.
In order to focus on high-value problems, we build and deploy on AWS and make extensive use of platform capabilities like AWS Lambda and AWS Kinesis. We write all of our core services in Go, which strikes a great balance between performance and ease of development. All of this gives our customers the ability to control their software in product and make critical changes in situations when milliseconds matter. We work every day to give engineering teams just like ours new super-powers.
Engineers at Automattic drive our culture, and drive a variety of codebases and processes devoted to making the web a better place. WordPress websites power 34% of the websites on the internet and see over 162M unique visitors per month in the US alone; that’s a lot of opportunity to make an impact.
Distributed around the world and with varied backgrounds, interests, and expertise, our engineers are ambassadors of our company and community. They collaborate with the other roles at Automattic to define, implement, and improve the experience for our passionate and loyal customers.
As founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg discussed in a Techcrunch interview upon our announcement of raising $300M from a new partner in Salesforce Ventures, we don’t plan to change the roadmap of launching and constantly iterating our products.
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