Posts Tagged ‘Plastiq’

As a software engineer at Plastiq, it is likely that you’ll attend (or even lead) a number of War Room Wednesdays: focused, hands-on-keyboard time with the full power of the entire engineering team in one room. Our War Room Wednesdays fall into 3 categories: Mini Projects In a WRW mini project, Plastiq engineers will challenge…

I was speaking recently with a friend who is a Head of People at another company. In the course of our conversation the topic switched to retention. I shared Plastiq Engineering’s retention record – we have had only 1 Engineer depart the company in nearly 2.5 years. Our average tenure of an Engineer at Plastiq…

Admit it, engineers. You don’t want to work on CSS if you can possibly avoid it. Hey, I understand. CSS is infamously frustrating, and I used to tear my hair out trying to figure out why nothing seemed to behave properly without adding float:left to every single element on the page. It’s a poorly understood…

I started developing in the ecosystem of Microsoft (C#, .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and SQL Server) on a daily basis for years. Life was good. Things just “worked”. There was no setting up a debugger on my local system, auto-complete was ubiquitous, and the error list window in Visual Studio was my go-to for any…

How we are working now – continuous delivery At Plastiq we move fast and deploy many applications on any given day.¬† We follow the¬†Trunk Based Development¬†model where we commit directly to the master branch. Builds and deployment are automatic and fast after which unit, api and end to end tests are run. Where do we…

We love talking Engineering at Plastiq. We also love talking to other Engineers. We frequently attend local Meetup group events and Software Conferences to see what the rest of the industry is doing and to network with others in our field. When we are at the office we are typically heads-down working on cool new…

Starting a new job can be exhilarating and challenging. This is even more so for engineering positions. Not only are you starting a new role with new teammates but also potentially learning a lot of new skills. Having made this journey, I wrote this blog to document what the ride feels like and how you…

Tell us a little about yourself. I have been working at Plastiq for just over 4 years. I’m based in Boston so I travel a lot between going out to the office in San Francisco every couple of months and also heading back to Ireland to see my family. I’m also a new mom so…

At Startup companies, some of the most important team practices are not necessarily strategically conceived or planned out – they just grow organically within the team and gradually turn into a core part of your team culture.¬†At Plastiq we follow a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery model. We have had an informal practice, since early 2016, of…