About Specno

Who we are

We are a Silicon-Valley-Inspired tech startup, building tech startups - We are on a mission to become the industry standard for innovation.

Inspired by Google, we foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. A company that invests in people and processes, we have a desire to be the best, build the best, and constantly innovate.

Made up of a team of young ambitious and hard working individuals, we embody the work-hard-play-hard culture.

Why Work For Us

We put our money where our mouth is, we run our company at a rapid pace, applying agile to all areas of our business. Constantly looking to the team to optomise their workflow, give input, increase the amount of time you spend in flow. The better you can become, the better our organisation becomes.

Over the last two years we have applied everything we have learnt to bettering our people and our business. We have grown from a team of 2 to a team of 15, working on over 50 projects, across 4 different continents, we've stood on stage at innovation summits around the world, gone through accelorates, built a board of amazing advisors. We've let nothing get in our way of our mission. As of this month we have been rated as the top development agency in the country.

We are looking for individuals who want to be the best at what they do, who want to make an impact through the use of technology, who want to grow with us and who want to help us pave the way forward.

Our Culture

A work-hard-play-hard and learn a lot culture.

Monday through Thursday you are working on client projects.
Friday starts with a company-wide standup where each person shares what they have done over the week, what they have learned, and what they want to share with others. The standup ends with a briefing on where the company is, what's happened and what's going to happen - maximum transparency. The rest of Friday is devoted to upskilling yourself - learning new tech or trying new skills.

We are big on transfering knowledge, mentorship and supporting each other. We run the company quite autonomously, with pods of developers and designers being responisble for themselves and self managing to ensure that tasks get done.

Our Engineering Processes

It starts with a scoping project where our designers and analysts work together with the client to understand their market problem, business model, end users, team composition, competitors and together with our clients we come up with a proposal for a viable system (In the form of an interactive prototype that gets tested)

Once we know the budget and timeline we scope out what features are most important and how we can build the system in a modular fashion. For each sprint our analyst and the developers come together to do whiteboard solution architecture where everyone discusses the problem and how it will be solved, as well as how much time each feature will take, which is relayed to the client and the decide what features they want to go with. We usually work in two-week sprints for each project, ranging from 2-4 developers per sprint. We then release, test, analyze, and incorporate feedback while planning out the next sprint.

You will be very involved with the architecture and engineering decisions in your autonomous pod/squad. You will likely be working on 2-3 projects. We don’t shift between sprints unless there is a live bug that urgently needs squashing, but we do test-driven development as to cut bugs. We have great branching strategies, conversions, and really clean code to optimize collaborative projects.