Our Values

Our engineering values reflect our company values:

Always for Action - It’s better to be fast and wrong than to never find out in the first place. For engineers, it means that:

• We favour moving quickly and shipping often.
• We prioritise delivering value to our customers.
• We avoid analysis paralysis, instead we make pragmatic tradeoffs that allow us to keep moving forward.
• If we’re stuck, we let others know and ask for help as soon as possible.

Excellence in Execution - We only find out if our ideas or plans are good or bad through executing and delivery to the best possible standard. For engineers, it means that:

• We always keep stability and performance top of mind.
• We don’t ship bad code, and we keep improving the quality of our codebase over time.
• We have a strong testing culture and we rely on automated testing techniques to maintain a high quality product.
• If we come across some code that doesn’t feel right, we raise it so the team can decide how and when to improve it.
• We make small improvements to the code as we go - every little thing doesn’t need to become a ticket.

Focus First - Focus is our superpower. For engineers, it means that:

• We make the smallest possible changes that meet requirements.
• We keep the scope tight and we avoid snowballing changes that grow in scope over time.
• We minimise the amount of work in flight and finish things before starting something else.
• We work on what we say we are working on so that the team can proceed predictably (a lot relies on our estimates e.g. business contacts -> customers, partner comms, engaging other people like testers)

Diversity Raises the Bar - We challenge ourselves to diverse thinking, people, and experiences. Differences are what make us better. For engineers, it means that:

• We welcome different experiences and opinions - there is a lot we can learn from different languages, frameworks and engineering cultures.