- Principles
- We're a Team
- Make the User the Hero
- Create Leverage
- Always be Compounding (ABC)
- Collaboration Practices
- Collaboration Tools
- Tech/Development Stack
- Other Pages
Principles
Applied from our company's
Mission, Values, and Principles
We're a Team
Team members take ownership over parts of the application. However, we provide feedback (e.g., quick PRs reviews) and help each other grow
Make the User the Hero
We consider user personas in every product decision. We "dog food" our product on our team. We incorporate linters to detect/prevent a11y problems
Create Leverage
We pay to equip our team the best tools for the job. This includes using the best IDEs, continuous integration, and languages. We're always on the lookout for ways to create more leverage — see the "developer experience" tag on our public GitHub
Always be Compounding (ABC)
We're always looking to build on our existing foundations so we can move faster. This includes documentation, linters, tests, UI storybooks, and more
Collaboration Practices
- Kanban: deliver value continuously, limit work-in-progress
- Default to asynchronous communication
- Lightweight team meetings:
- Weekly kickoff (Zoom): celebrate wins, preview week ahead, prioritize
- Standup:
- Tuesdays/Thursdays: Slack
- Wednesdays/Fridays: Zoom
- Engineering Show & Tell
- 🎒 Brown Bag Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner: informal knowledge sharing sessions
Collaboration Tools
- Google: for email/calendar; internal emails are rare
- GitHub: see our open-source repository
- Notion: knowledge base
- Trello: business task tracking
- Balsamiq: low-fidelity wireframes
- Figma: wireframes, designs, interactive prototypes
- 1Password
- Slack
- Zoom
- Loom
Tech/Development Stack
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, Redux, Storybook, Jest
- Backend: Python, Django, DRF, PostgreSQL
- GitHub: PRs, actions
- Rainforest QA: E2E testing
- Codacy: lint, coverage tracking
- Heroku: API, application hosting
- Rollbar: error telemetry
- New Relic: application performance monitoring
- Mixpanel: action telemetry
- StatusPage (powered by Pingdom)
Other Pages
Engineering Show & Tell