What it’s Like Joining Jam Engineering | Ep. 16

09/08/2024 14 min

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Episode Synopsis

Meet two of Jam’s newest engineers Max & Aidan! In this episode they discuss what engineering onboarding is like at Jam, plus all the “boring” parts of software development. Internal docs, codebase organization, local environments… As a company totally focused on bug capture; at Jam, these topics are our Jam!We discuss:(00:13) Why we love talking about the “boring” parts of eng (they’re not boring to us!)(02:32) Finding alignment as the codebase and team get bigger(05:06) A sneak peek at a new feature Aidan just built(10:42) Max and Aidan debate how much DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is too much(12:53) Dani shares the 7 different versions of Jam’s UI before we found PMF!