About Stone Three

Address

24 Gardner Williams Avenue, Paardevlei, Somerset West, 7130

Company Size

51-200
Summary

Stone Three was founded by Dave Weber and Francois Swanepoel in 2000. Together they embarked on a very demanding mission: to create the bespoke, high-end signal processing solutions required to overcome real-world engineering problems.

Since then, the company vision has expanded to include not just Stone Three - a pioneering product development house that develops bespoke enterprise software engineering solutions for industry leaders; but also Stone Three Mining Solutions - a complete solution provider of machine vision systems to the mining industry.

What we do

Stone Three - https://www.stonethree.com/

At Stone Three we do technology heavy lifting in the areas of signal processing, software defined radio, advanced machine vision sensor systems, enterprise engineering solutions, data science applications and advanced computer graphics, applied to industries ranging from financial, maritime, healthcare, telecommunications and media to visual effects (VFX) and more.

Why Work For Us

We place a lot of emphasis on employee growth and quality of life. We believe that people produce their best work when they are being fulfilled, so we try our best to take on innovative and challenging projects and ventures. We encourage growth through corporate coaching, skills training, workshops, meet-ups and mentorship.

Our Culture

A culture of collaboration, respect, teamwork and excellence in all that we do.
We strive to create an environment for all our staff that encourages them to do great, fulfilling and meaningful work. We believe that the quality of the intellectual property we develop is directly linked to the quality of the people involved in its development, and we go to great lengths to ensure each staff member is equipped with the tools to achieve greatness.

Our Engineering Processes

An inclusive co-discovery and co-creation process underpins all project development.
We embrace Agile processes in all our teams - from the engineering teams to the support teams.

Our Hiring Process

  1. We invite you to meet relevant members of the team.
  2. If you impress us, we invite you for a second interview that includes a technical assessment.
  3. If we are still impressed, we make an offer. (We may make use of Psychometric assessments in our recruitment process)
Perks
Shower facilities, so you can exercise before or during work.
Quiet, beautiful surrounds within the Paardevlei
Table-tennis competitions
Flexi-time
Open study policy to encourage continuous learning
Performance-based incentives
Coaching and mentoring opportunities
Great Coffee and sweet treats
Hybrid Work model
Once a week office lunch
Tech Stack

Application and Data

Amazon EC2
AngularJS
Sass
Heroku
PostgreSQL
Apache Cordova
Objective-C
Javascript
Node.js
Python
MySQL
PHP
Java
Spring Framework
Redis
RabbitMQ
MongoDB
memcached
jQuery
HTML5
Go
Django
CouchDB
C#
C++
Bootstrap
Google App Engine
nginx

DevOps

Ansible
Bower
GitHub
Grunt
Jenkins
Git
Chef
Docker
Maven
GitLab
Puppet
Vagrant
npm
Xcode
Bitbucket
Subversion

Utilities

Elasticsearch
Google Analytics

Business Tools

Google Apps
Slack
Trello
MailChimp
JIRA
Stone Three offices - Located in Paardevlei Precinct Cape Town.
Sprint planning - Agile
Teamwork
Company 1x a week lunch: Each week we get 3 meals and the company comes together to enjoy some lunch.
Some S3 peeps enjoying company lunch.
Stone Three reception area.
S3 Upstairs office - SmartROC (Smart Remote Operations Centre). Where our Process Engineer and Support team monitor live data.
The Table Tennis and Foosball room - Where we relieve some stress and have some fun.