We're building out platforms, frameworks and integrations to help businesses improve how they work, and how they bring together their existing IT landscape.
Our approach is pragmatic and customer-driven. Right now, this means that:
Of course, we want to be ahead of what customers need before we talk to them, but no so far ahead that what we have won’t be used for years! Basically: build runway, not too much, mostly in the right direction.
Our philosophy is:
Although we’re still small and relatively young as a business, our customer-driven approach means we are cashflow-positive already; this is not a “build it and they will come” venture. We have product-market fit already!
It’s worth stressing again that we’re a solutions company; we see our tech and our deep understanding (not to mention love!) of tech as a key enabler and differentiator to enable us to deliver customer solutions.
Our partner in this venture is Xpertek Contact, an established business that’s part of the BBD Group.
If you’re interested in software engineering (as opposed to software as art), and see tech as an enabler and not an end in itself, you’re someone we want to talk to. Our long-term vision is to massively improve the quality of work life for the people at the coalface in our customer environments; this is an area that hasn’t gotten the right kind of focus from large enterprise software businesses, and we think the global opportunity here is large.
We intend to expand our sales and marketing efforts into Europe and the UK within the next 12 months, which will put a lot of pressure on the engineering team to deliver solid, foundational engineering on the common capabilities whilst enabling delivery teams to work efficiently on what drives them — customer value.
This means there’s lots of scope to grow and over time specialise in areas that both motivate you and interest us.
We’re still small enough that you’ll have a big impact on our culture! The founders have worked together for over 25 years, and we challenge each other’s ideas and encourage others to challenge ours, while always respecting each other as people. We encourage work-life balance, and having interests and friends that are outside of the workplace. We want you to take breaks where you switch off completely from work, and reflect this in our generous leave allowance.
Our culture also encourages recognition of both good work and kindness, as well as being able to stand up and say “I was wrong” or even “I’m sorry.” But frankly, this is easy to say and harder to do — so we encourage you to talk to us and test on this, and to lead and espouse the culture we want.
We like agile (scrum), but we also believe in sufficient up front design and architecture to minimise waste.
We align our customers to agile too, so that we’re not pretending our projects are waterfall to them while trying to practise agile in the engineering team — that way lies madness.
We’re using Jira to manage our projects, Bitbucket with git for source control, and CI/CD, but frankly we need more hands on deck to get this right.
We also need more unit testing and integration testing to pull into the CI/CD pipeline; another area where we need to focus.
Typically, we run a Discovery phase for each new client project, and then build a backlog and an initial sprint plan thereafter; this is also the point where we look at what we need to do from a core platform point of view vs customer-specific delivery, and plan appropriately.
We’ll run one or more projects for core platform delivery as well as a project or stream per customer project; this takes a bit of co-ordination to get right.
Our process is:
We can typically do all of this quite quickly — within a couple of days. Our view is that we’re interviewing each other — as much as we want to know more about you, you’ll also want to know more about us. So an investment of a couple of hours up front is worthwhile.
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