Meet Colin, Lead Developer
Rail Europe
Tech team
We offer a service to our customers by taking on the complexity of the rail industry. We challenge ourselves to improve our software continuously. We are international teams based worldwide and most of us work fully remote. We have a clear plan and roadmap to implement those changes.
We are structured in stream-aligned teams (domain-focused) to provide direct added value to our customers. The teams are empowered to make any decision that will make their life easier, as well as the architectural concepts. We want our teams to be able to take any decision that will help them write the software they are proud of.
We collaborate with our Product team on a daily basis to ensure the software we deliver is tailored to our customers' needs. Besides, we want to be customer-centric in our tech organization; hence, we try to involve customers in the early discovery phases organized by our Product team as much as possible.
Employee breakdown
Product
23%
Engineering
63%
Data
6%
Design
9%
In Figures
B2B Users
in 133 Countries
Technologies and tools
Ruby On Rails
100%Ruby
100%Python
100%Java
100%Node.js
50%Angular
100%React
25%Terraform
100%Git
100%Docker
100%AWS
100%
Backend
Frontend
Devops
Hackdays :
Every last Friday of each month, the developers are free to work on a subject of their choice; the only condition is "you have to be motivated by the subject". It can be a technical subject, a functional one not prioritised yet, or any idea on the product.
Terraform :
Terraform allow us to describe and write our full infrastructure as code. This provide us the ability to launch on demand or per branch environments. Unused infrastructure components are cleaned daily.
Focus product :
At the beginning of each quarter, strategic initiatives for the Product/Tech teams are being set based on a proposal of the Product Team. Teams gather to check dependencies between teams so that the team can assess which initiatives will be studied/delivered during the next 3 months with an outlook on the next quarter.
Organization and methodologies
Our teams use lightweight Scrum as their software methodology. We coordinate between the stream-aligned teams monthly to understand what the other teams have been implementing.
Recruitment process
During the interview process, several meeting will be conducted: You will meet our:
- Talent Acquisition manager
- Your future Manager/The Team
- Our Executive Chairman & CEO, Björn Bender, over coffee.