Ruby Conf 2021 Hiring Presentation

Grailed's Hiring Presentation for Ruby Conf 2021

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2. Allow us to introduce ourselves 👋 Adebia Ntoso (she/her) Senior Software Engineer Alec McKinley (he/him) Recruiting Manager Elizabeth O’Brien (she/her) Technical Recruiter
3. What is Grailed? Powered by Ruby on Rails, Grailed is one of the largest peer-to-peer marketplaces for clothing.
5. Some Rough Stats >> 7.8 years old >> 7.6M users >> 7M items sold >> 3.5M items for sale >> 106 employees >> 40 engineers >> 7 times resold >> 5 squads
7. Engineering at Grailed We are a team of product-minded, solutions-focused, and highly empathetic engineers focused on shipping quality code to our end users. Technology Infrastructure >> Rails 6.0 >> Heroku >> PostreSQL 12.8 >> Next.js 10.0 >> Codeship Stack >> Ruby 2.6 >> React 16.14 >> Sorbet >> Typescript 4.4 >> Redux 4.0
8. Engineering at Grailed Our philosophy guarantees that we’re continuously improving our performance and delivering value to our community. >> Continuous and frequent deployment >> Automated dependency updates >> Well-documented technical standards >> Experiment before development >> Thoughtful but flexible processes >> Retros, kudos, and chompers >> Learning & Development opportunities Philosophy
9. TRUST GROWTH MARKETPLACE PAYMENTS SELLER We instill and champion the trustworthiness of our platform. We help Grailed acquire new users and revive valuable users. We build tools to boost the discoverability and interactivity of our platform. We ensure users can transact entirely over the Grailed Platform. We build features for sellers first. Squads How we link Our cross-functional squads are comprised of platform and mobile engineers, product, design, and data analysts. These self-sustaining business units are given complete autonomy in achieving their OKRs.
10. Who is Grailed? Like rubyists, Grailed is passionate about keeping things simple & nice. People come to work at Grailed for a lot of reasons, including, but not limited to, passion for: >> Sustainability >> Self-expression >> User-focused products >> Scalable solutions to difficult problems
11. Culture >> Remote Work >> Bi-Weekly All-Hands >> Anti-Racism + Activism >> Development >> Mentorship We strive for operational excellence while making emotional intelligence a cornerstone of our culture.
12. Benefits Time Away >> Unlimited PTO >> Wellness Days >> Parental Leave Health + Wellness >> Health Insurance >> Vision/Dental >> FSA >> One Medical Happiness is paramount. We place a premium on maintaining a work/life balance and ensuring that our employees feel invested into. Quality of Life >> Employee Style Purchase program >> WFH budget
13. Come work with us! • • Join Our Team grailed.com/jobs