The StoryStream Engineering Team
- Core: Focussing on the main StoryStream platform, UGC content workflows, rights management, user management.
- Experiences: Focussing on the customer facing Javascript based content delivery mechanisms and their management.
- Data: Analytics, Machine Learning and Product Catalogs.
We are:
- A multidisciplinary team made up of multiple sprint teams.
- Data, front end, and back end developers all working on shared goals.
- Problem solvers.
- Deployers.
- Code reviewers.
- Planners.
- Estimators.
- Cardboard superheroes*.
We are also:
- Climbers.
- Triathletes.
- Dungeon masters.
- Cross fitters.
- Dog owners.
- Musicians.
- Hikers.
- Parents.
- Paddle boarders.
- Sports fans.
- Gamers.
- ...amongst many other hobbies and interests.
Our Engineering Values:
- We aim to be "Humble Experts"
- We know a lot, but there's an awful lot more we don't know. We don't mind being corrected, finding out we're wrong, discovering new things.
- We prioritise the tools we know
- Using what is reliable, solid and well known within the team means we can rely on a foundation that allows us to dive deeper and enjoy working on what we find exciting.
- We operate a "Found elsewhere" culture
- We're a small team building lots of exciting features. We will always evaluate and plan to use vendors who can help us along the way.
- We trust the code we've got
- Bridges and buildings stand for hundreds of years. Our legacy code hasn't been in use quite that long, but it's had its bugs fixed, it's been documented, we understand it, so we still use it.
We use:
- Python
- JavaScript
- AWS
- Docker
- ...and loads of other technology in between and around the edges.
We live in:
- Brighton
- London
- Bristol
- ...so we work hybridly. Some of us in an office some of the time, some of us remotely all of the time.
Over the past four years:
- Our team has had 100% staff retention.
- Our team has grown by 120%.
- Our company headcount has grown by over 50%.
- ...and we are hiring now.