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Hivebrite
The Engineering and Product Team
🚀 Their Mission
The Engineering and Product Teams work together to define new features, tackle technical debt, and make our customers happy.
It is not always easy, but together we handle significant new feature demands from our customers without compromising the quality and our long-term vision. Like many companies, our roadmap may change from time to time, so we must be flexible, fluid and agile. We like to see problems as opportunities to learn and improve.
✨ More on the Team
The Engineering and Product Teams are mainly based in Paris. The Engineering Team accounts for more than 60 engineers (frontend, backend, QA, SRE) working in several squads (six to seven Developers and one Product Manager). The Product Team accounts for seven product managers and six designers. To be part of the Engineering and Product teams, you need to have an intuitive and creative approach, be a reliable and pragmatic problem-solver, have a test-and-learn attitude, and be a team player.
Organization and Methodology
We have 4 tribes split into 9 squads. But what is a Tribe at Hivebrite?
Tribes are sets of squads consistently working on a product area of Hivebrite.
A tribe owns a specific scope of the overall application. At Hivebrite, we consider ourselves a B2B2C product, because although we sell to community managers, we are only successful if the users in their community engage with each other. This is mirrored in our tribe organization by serving a persona: Users, Admins, Modules (outside of community, e.g. events, mentoring, etc), and Tech. Each tribe owns and drives the vision, priorities, and backlog on their scope.
A tribe is typically led by an engineering manager working together with a product manager and a designer.
Ok, and a squad then?
Squads are autonomous cross-functional agile teams focusing on a specific scope of Hivebrite (a set of services implementing one or several domains) and specific product drivers (like engagement, monetization, joy of use…).
A squad typically regroups members with product, design, front-end, back-end, quality, Scrum and architecture skills. They can also rely on external support in some cases.
Stripe
100%Postman
100%gRPC
100%Elasticsearch
100%Ruby On Rails
95%Sidekiq
90%GoMicroservices
20%Python
5%React JS
100%Webpack
95%Redux.js
75%Google Cloud Platform
100%Docker Compose
100%Docker
100%Capistrano
100%Ansible
100%Kubernetes
85%Terraform
25%AWS
10%
Backend
Frontend
Devops
“Our current challenge on the French side is to rebuild and reinforce the system design so that it is more robust and independent. Also, we work daily to improve the existing code performance and lower the build time. We have a diverse team and a flexible remote work policy.”
Yveline SAY, Senior Software Engineer
Our deployment process
We have two planned deployments per week, via buttons on Buildkite. Migrating to Argo Workflow in Q3 2024.
Our tribes :
- User Journey tribe 📱
- Admin Journey Tribe 👨⚖️
- Evolution tribe ☄️
- Tech tribe 🧨
WHY DID THEY JOIN US?
Eric - Mobile Engineer
“During the interviews I had the feeling that people here were cool“
Our Hiring process
Our hiring process happens remotely or on-site, depending on where you are based. We might adapt the process for some candidates, but the typical process looks like this:
- First move: Meet Ruben, our Engineering Talent Acquisition Manager. He will present our project and will go through your experience and questions.
- Second meeting: You will meet your manager to present yourself, talk about know-how, motivation, and your career ambitions.
- Third Meeting: You will meet with two other senior teammates from your future team for a technical discussion about the previous technical issues or challenges that you’ve faced.
- Last move: Depending on the role, you may meet Jean, our CEO, for a formal talk or/and other teammates
Meet the Team
Meet the Team
Presentation
Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create vibrant communities.
Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Princeton University, Stanford University, and Columbia Business Schools but also WWF or P&G alumni. We employ more than 100 people across our entities in France, in the US, in the UK, and in APAC, and 30 nationalities are represented in our team!
In 2023, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France.
And we have no intention of slowing down!
What they are looking for
We are looking for "doers," with a positive attitude, who want to build, learn and make an impact at a growing international business. We seek talent that sees solutions where others see problems. Individuals that are comfortable with change...Because a growing company is always in the process of transforming!
What makes them successful:
- Platform flexibility (visually and functionally) that customization for all types of online communities
- A user-friendly interface coupled with an all-in-one solution capable of a broad set of functionalities (events, email campaigns, website, analytics, forums, fundraising, payments, messaging, etc.)
- Unique and efficient methods for surfacing job opportunities within a network
Good to know
- Hivebrite is also a rich community of foodies, athletes, music lovers, and experienced junkies
- We organize worldwide online team buildings
- And rarely does a week end without a team Happy Hour
- Be careful not to leave your laptop open, otherwise you'll owe croissants to the entire office!