Building Jam | What it's Like Joining Jam Engineering
Building Jam: What it’s Like Joining Jam Engineering (Ep. 16) - YouTube
Building Jam: What it’s Like Joining Jam Engineering (Ep. 16)
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:
- 0:00 Intro
- 00:13 Why we love talking about the “boring” parts of eng (they’re not boring to us!)
- 2:32 Finding alignment as the codebase and team get bigger
- 5:06 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!
Want to learn more about Jam Engineering? Check out these other episodes.
- The Eng Team is Growing with Jam's head of engineering, Tony Stuck
- Developing Jam AI with Jam engineer Rui Conti
- An Internal Demo with Chrome's Built-in AI with Jam engineers Oskar Otwinowski and Rui Conti
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