Pros
- Lots of SaaS product work with a good customer base
- Friendly, helpful and cooperative teams/individuals in the R&D department. Same with on the Boston side with Client operations, Sales-engineering, Sales/Marketing, etc.
- Developers drive forward features end-to-end and have the possibilities to wear many hats — chance to directly talk to the customers to verify ideas
- We are using Ketryx to build Ketryx, so we have a good sense where our customers are coming from. It's cool to build dev-tooling esp. when you rely on it yourself on a daily basis.
- Lots of different topics to dive into and get good at, such as SBOM management, Requirement traceability matrix, Jira widgets, Core system management, AI infra (data vectorization, agentic framework, eval framework, etc), and much more
- Even though sometimes stressful (startup environment), you'll not be asked to work weekends or similar. It's a culture of grown-up professionals... many with kids and family, so work-life balance checks out.
Cons
- Pretty steep learning curve when starting out, esp. when you are not from the regulated industries (QMS processes, etc.)
- It's a startup, so one has to be strategic on how to meet all the different timelines / personal goals. On the upside, you have a lot of control on the outcome and shape the vision of the product.