How would you explain Yonder to your friend in 3 sentences?
Yonder is a documentation solution provider with its roots in the aviation industry, but now serving a wide range of B2B/enterprise customers. With our SaaS product, we help companies stay in control of their content and bring reliable, role-specific information to frontline employees.
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🛠️ Tech stack & Development process at Yonder
Technologies that we use
Can I choose the hardware? What is your coding setup (IDE, OS, Build server, Cloud provider)?
Yes, you can pick your own hardware. We expect you to bring your own hardware and reimburse you with 100 CHF per month from your first salary payment.
The core elements of our IDE are IntelliJ, GitLab, and AWS.
Our software development process
How can I grow as a developer at your company (career paths and learning opportunities)?
We are a growing company, and are planning to double the dev team strength over the next 6-12 months. With growing team sizes come possibilities to assume additional responsibilities, such as SCRUM master or software architect. However, career progression in our company is not automatic, but based on actual merits.
Furthermore, our software solution features a broad technology stack – from backend-heavy stuff such as Camunda, to modern technologies such as Kotlin, to frontend challenges as supporting multiple platforms such as iOS, Windows and Android. This provides a perfect environment for developers who are looking to broaden their skill and experience.
Do you prefer always writing your own software for everything or use frameworks if they fit?
We prefer frameworks, as we operate in a fast-paced environment. We value good solutions on time higher than the perfect solutions too late – even if this means refactoring and tech debt removal are part of our daily dev life.
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👩💻 Company culture
What are your key values and what are some daily work examples of them?
- Flat hierarchies and transparent decision-making
- We value everyone’s inputs and ideas, but expect to implement them yourself
- Blame-free error culture inspired by aviation
- Modern offices located in Zurich Oerlikon, just a few minutes by train from downtown Zürich
- Flexible working hours, with possibility to work from home – or anywhere else for that matter
How diverse are your teams? What is the typical team size and structure?
We are open to all nationalities, genders, sexual orientations and religions. Our team includes Swiss, German, British, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian and Egyptian nationals, and we hope it doesn’t stop there!
Furthermore, our offices are wheelchair accessible (elevator, accessible toilet).
Do you offer any helpful initiatives for parents with young children?
A large majority of our employees have children, so it’s perfectly understandable that you will have to pick up your kids at school, work from home when they are sick, or take your holidays during the school holidays.
What is your remote work policy?
Everyone has a dedicated workplace in our modern offices in Zurich Oerlikon, but working from home, your vacation home or any other place is fine, too. We organize our work with productivity tools such as JIRA and Salesforce, so we can track the progress of the work irrespective of the time and place our team members work. Nevertheless, we enjoy discussions at the whiteboard with our colleagues in the office, so we are advocates of a healthy mix of on-site presence and remote work. However, there are no fix days where we expect you to be in the office.
If you do Agile - how is your agile process & release cycle? How much coding vs meetings/planning?
We work in 2-week sprints with regular releases. At the moment, all our developers work in one single SCRUM team – this might change to multiple SCRUM teams in the future if we deem it more efficient at some point.
We hold as little meetings as required. The mix between coding and planning is hard to quantify; we use as little time for planning as possible, but as much as is required. Our software solution has some complex components, so time used for planning can be time well invested. What’s important in planning is that we encourage all our developers to actively participate in the solution design.
Do you have some in-house tech workshops or hackathons? Is there an educational budget?
Our educational budget is used for a leading learning and tech publication platform. Furthermore, there are internal knowledge sharing sessions twice a week to foster the know-how transfer of the diverse tech stack to all team members.
Can I work on my projects or open source for a part of time?
In a company with a little over 20 people, unfortunately this is not possible during regular work times. However, we all have a wide range of tech and non-tech hobbies, so you will always find somebody to talk about home automation, computer games graphics, video cutting, building your own airplane, car repairing, deep-sea diving or high-altitude climbing.
📖 The Book Question™
What do I need to do to buy a 50$ educational book on company expense?
Most probably, the educational book you are looking for is available on our learning and tech publication platform. If it isn’t, we pay for it, but you need to ask before spending the money.
The same principle applies to dev tools: if there is a dev tool that you think might simplify your life, speak to your manager and we will make a fast decision.
💼 How does the interview process at Yonder look like?
- Intro session with the CEO to align expectations
- Tech interview / hands-on coding assessment with the CTO and the team
- Admin session with the CEO to finalize the offer
We are fast decision makers – typically you will hear from us within 24hrs after submission of your application.
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