# Building Jam: What it’s Like Joining Jam Engineering (Ep. 16) - YouTube

[Building Jam: What it’s Like Joining Jam Engineering (Ep. 16)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tmqk2MZBk)

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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tmqk2MZBk&t=0s&ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) Intro  
- [00:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tmqk2MZBk&t=13s&ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) Why we love talking about the “boring” parts of eng (they’re not boring to us!)  
- [2:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tmqk2MZBk&t=152s&ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) Finding alignment as the codebase and team get bigger  
- [5:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tmqk2MZBk&t=306s&ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) A sneak peek at a new feature Aidan just built  
- [10:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tmqk2MZBk&t=642s&ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) Max and Aidan debate how much DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is too much  
- [12:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tmqk2MZBk&t=773s&ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) 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](/content/blog/building-jam-ep-2-the-eng-team-is-growing/?ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) with Jam's head of engineering, Tony Stuck  
- [Developing Jam AI](/content/blog/building-jam-ep-9-developing-jam-ai/?ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) with Jam engineer Rui Conti  
- [An Internal Demo with Chrome's Built-in AI](/content/blog/building-jam-ep-17-an-internal-demo-with-chromes-built-in-ai/?ref=strawberryjam.ghost.io) with Jam engineers Oskar Otwinowski and Rui Conti

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