We value engineer empowerment and autonomy: we want to allow the amazing people we hire to make a difference!
We're a fully remote organization
We value generalists, especially generalists with expertise in one or two areas. Generalists enable small cross-functional teams that can own their work end-to-end
Things will go wrong: we value recovering quickly over preventing failure at all costs, and we run blameless post-mortems whenever there are failures
We value boring technology: we want to use a limited set of well-understood & proven languages and tools to accomplish our goals.
In general, we avoid micro-services & love our monolith
Engineering Practices
Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery; trunk based development; feature flags. We deploy many times per day!
We value automated tests & monitoring much more than manual testing. We don't have "test engineers"
Zero defect policy
We try to optimize for long-term engineering speed & quality
We value collaboration & having multiple engineers tackle a problem together
Tech Stack
TypeScript servers backed by MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
Consul & Nomad for Docker container orchestration
HAProxy load balancer
We run almost everything on AWS
React/TypeScript for web frontends
Flutter + Kotlin for android clients
native iOS client
Redshift, Airflow, and Metabase for data analysis
Want to help ensure every child gets and education they love?
