Software engineering at Gearset

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As a software engineer at Gearset, it's really varied. There's the DevOps team, the UX team, and the engineering teams.

We have a Postgres database. Our back end is written in c sharp, and our front end is in JavaScript.

Then we run on top of AWS. Everything runs inside Docker containers, and we orchestrate the whole thing through Kubernetes.

So it's a nice mix of pragmatic, but also exciting new stuff.

Our approach is really the right tool for the right job. It's laser focused on the user. You're always solving a real problem that a real user has. We keep building new things, adding new features, talking to new users. There's always something new going on and something else that I can get involved with.

I get a great feeling of accomplishment knowing that I've made someone else's job potentially easier gives me such a massive boost. I've met customers at conferences where they've talked about how much of an impact a feature I've worked on has had on their everyday working lives and that is such a rewarding experience.

I think a big difference working as an engineer at Gearset versus somewhere else is how involved you get in the whole process. So that means talking to the customer when we're trying to figure out what problem we're trying to solve, designing the actual solution that we're gonna then ultimately build, and then also having ownership over the technical side of things as well.

As a software engineer, that's really helpful because I can get feedback from colleagues really regularly. I can get feedback from users really regularly, and And it means that there's a very short cycle between what you've coded and it being in front of a user.

We release features twice a day to our customers, and that means that we can have a really tight feedback cycle between the work that you do and seeing whether it's working for the users. That means that we can ship features in very small increments, and that's a really exciting and motivating way to work.

We're building stuff that makes our customers really happy, but we've also been able to bring in a a team who are all really exciting to work with, really engaged in the things that we're doing.

Having everyone share that same goal and those same aspirations is a really nice feeling.

You feel like you're an equal with all of your colleagues. Everyone's opinion is valued.

It's really is a team atmosphere, so it feels much more collaborative and much more creative.

We've got so much work that we could be doing, and we just need people to do it.

If someone was considering applying for a software engineering role at GISS, first thing I'd say was definitely do it.

This company has made a huge difference to my professional skill set, given me incredible opportunities to travel the world and develop features for some of the biggest companies in the world.

My advice for anyone thinking of applying for a software job is absolutely apply for Gearset. There's nowhere better to grow your career as a software engineer.