Great team - Software Engineer Zealy Employee Review

- small team of highly talented people: everyone is super smart, focus on quality, both CTO and CPO are still coding - complex features to develop and issues to fix: always something new to do, very interesting topics, very high traffic / challenges - full remote and autonomous devs: writing culture, no meetings, asynchronous, deep focus mentality, feature lead (to give ownership to devs on each feature) - continuous delivery: we deploy in prod multiple time everyday, a lot of tests on backend and frontend - offsites at least twice a year (+ hackathons, smaller events ...) - really good package - last but super important, very inspiring people, great management, very cool team to work with

- the hiring process is long: the team is selective on new member, they want everyone to be/feel a part of it. Also they're looking for something very specific and you need to meet the criteria (soft + hard + communication skills) - need great expertise on multiple subjects: they are looking for people that they can learn from, but also that everyone can learn from / challenge each other. - english first: it's an international company so everything written or spoken is in english (which is not an issue for anyone in the team)

- Small team (< 10 devs), very solid, lot of diverse experiences. I've been learning continuously since I started, thanks to the team and the technical challenges I'm facing. - Entirely full remote, lot of autonomy left to developers (I manage my own projects from A to Z), very few meetings, writing culture - Offsites organized regularly - Financially healthy startup (reached profitability), good package

The process was quite long and selective, including general interviews with founders, two tests (take home test, system design, etc.) and reference checks. However, now that I'm working in it I understand why it's necessary. Given the technical challenges and the size of the startup, it's crucial to have a solid hands-on expertise on backend side.