Meet Nicolas, Head of Engineering
Fairly Made
Tech team
Our main objective is to provide our users with a platform that is both efficient and user-friendly. This platform allows brands to establish the traceability of their products and to measure their impact through a multi-criteria evaluation. The calculator backed by this platform has been 100% developed in-house to control the entire value chain from A to Z.
Quality and speed are the key words of the technical teams in order to meet Fairly Made's rapidly growing business challenges. In order to meet these objectives, this year's challenge is to move to a micro-services architecture and improve our Q&A. Our team is composed of people from different backgrounds and levels of seniority. We want our Tech & Product team to be inclusive (30% women by the beginning of 2023; 25% professional retraining) and for everyone to be able to develop in their daily work.
Employee breakdown
Engineering
55%
Data
10%
Product & Design
25%
DevOps & Cybersecurity
10%
key numbers
15
Github repos
Technologies and tools
Rust
100%Redis
100%RabbitMQ
100%PostgreSQL
100%Node.js
100%Nest JS
100%MongoDB
100%Vue.js
100%Quasar Framework
100%JavaScript
100%Prefect
100%Google Cloud Platform
100%GitHub
100%Elastic Cloud
100%
Backend
Frontend
Devops
NestJS ⚙️
Opinionated framework to build highly testable, maintainable and scalable backend services. Harvestr / Figma / Whimsical - At the heart of the product team to centralise requirements and translate them visually.
Organization and methodologies
Our Tech & Product team is made up of a Product Team (Product and UX/UI), a Platform Team (Core, DevOps and Cyber), and a Data Team to provide everything needed by the Feature Teams.
As far as rituals are concerned, we start the week with a meeting to share news across the company and also within the Tech team. Every morning, we have a Daily and a Weekly is scheduled every week with your manager. Peer Programming and Code Reviews are organised as needed. Everyone is free to organise sessions on demand. It is important that each team member is proactive and does not hesitate to propose organisational improvements.
Projects and tech challenges
Tech challenge
We maintain 4 backend services (including data services and various compute engines) with 5 interfaces. Our number one challenge this year is to move to a microservices architecture to break our monolith.
Recruitment process
- A first call interview with our Head of HR (20 minutes) to get to know each other.
- A technical test to be done at home depending on the position (about 3 hours)
- A face-to-face interview to debrief the technical test with our CTO and a lead Dev, followed by a meeting with part of the team (1h30)