A day in the life…
Tech-Demo:
No meeting on Wednesday
On-call: take ownership for your product. Max. 10 days per month + compensation. Someone does a week and rotate.
Agile Methodologies
The teams have the right to decide if they want to work with Scrum or KANBAN. There is no dedicated Agile coaches but there is heavy collab between Engineering Managers and Squad leads to make sure the teams stay organized.
We work in the typical two-week-sprint:
At the start of every sprint, the dev team sits down with the product owner to go through the backlog; discuss the upcoming work and plan everything.
Daily stand-ups are conducted, well, everyday
Grooming sessions?
Retros taking place or not is up for the teams to decide.
However, Wednesday is no meeting day so no worries that you spend your time in constant meetings
Learning and development
From day 1 of working with us, you are entitled to a 1000EUR development budget that you can spend on any kinds of learning and books you like that means conference tickets and courses and books
For our development team, we have a Egghead.io learning account so you can hone your technical skills.
We have a Tech Demo Sessions every month so our engineers can show the team what they have been working on.
Tools
Besides our tech stack which can be found here, there are some other tools that we use as well:
Slack for communication, we live on Slack and even have an etiquette
We use the entire Atlassian suite for a lot of things (this Confluence page is an example 🔥):
Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, OpsGenie, etc.
On-Call
We believe that we should take ownership of our product. Almost all of our engineers are on-call max. 10 days per month. On-call devs take are the shift for the entire week and we rotate moving forward.