Looking for a new tech job takes effort. Sorting through job postings, reviewing the technical requirements, whipping up tailored resumes, crafting the perfect cover letter, waiting for calls, navigating interview anxiety — it’s a lot of work.
It is also an opportunity to find the perfect match in an employer. Job hunting is a great time to reflect on what you value the most in your career and ensure you land somewhere that will help you achieve your goals.
Unfortunately, you don’t often get a behind-the-scenes look into engineering teams. That’s why Built In Seattle got in touch with a few local companies that are looking for new technologists to join their team and asked them for a sneak peek into their priorities.
Cloud agnostic? Consider Identity Digital, a domain service. Highly empathetic and good with the details? Consider 98point6, a healthtech company where you get to use new tech to keep up with a complex regulatory healthcare landscape. Love elegant solutions and care about work-life balance? E-commerce company Violet plans to hire soon.
Read more and see if you’d be a good fit for these hiring teams.
98point6 is an on-demand, text-based primary care mobile app.
What's one character trait or skill set that a successful candidate should have to land a spot on your team?
Receptiveness. 98point6 operates in the healthcare tech industry, which means change is frequent, and the impact of your work is significant. Therefore, you must be someone who is adaptable to change and open to feedback. Changes include learning new technologies to keep up with a dynamic technology landscape, rapidly changing regulations that demand new feature functionalities or working with different teams to accelerate projects.
Feedback is consistent at 98point6, and you must be able to use that feedback to drive improvement in behaviors, processes and technical skills.
Change is frequent, and the impact of your work is significant.”
What’s the biggest project your technical teams are planning for 2023, and why is it important for the success of the business as a whole?
As we grow our software’s SaaS model, we will significantly improve our interoperability with other health platforms in 2023. We also have extensive plans to enhance our virtual healthcare software on the patient mobile and clinical web platforms. This work is essential to scale our business broadly across the healthcare market.
How would you describe your tech team culture in a single word, and why would you choose that word?
Thoughtful. Our decisions affect our ability to safely and securely provide healthcare. Generally speaking, our system is health records kept at very high fidelity, and we must always consider the security and safety of the data we store. This leads to a technology team that must always consider the importance of their work.
Identity Digital is a domain name registry and technology company.
What’s one character trait or skill set that a successful candidate should have to land a spot on your team?
I highly value the ability to troubleshoot an issue. You can gain knowledge, learn skills and acquire certificates in a variety of ways, but in a production environment when something goes wrong you need to figure out why — and fast. Good troubleshooting means asking the right questions, looking at the right metrics and making the right decisions to get your operations back online. It’s important for candidates to share examples of times they utilized troubleshooting in critical situations.
It’s important for candidates to share examples of times they utilized troubleshooting in critical situations.”
What’s the biggest project your technical teams are planning for 2023, and why is it important for the success of the business as a whole?
In an ever-changing technical landscape, we continue to adapt and prepare for the unknown. You can't rely on one technology and expect to survive. Being cloud agnostic is a key advantage to success and we not only provide the environments for our teams to learn and develop in this area, but we encourage it. Our company has always maintained a stance to provide our employees with the best possible tools to learn and grow, and develop not only their careers but themselves as well.
At Identity Digital, we not only focus on company-wide initiatives but focus on anyone — new hires or current team members — who will be increasing their knowledge of Terraform Cloud and having access to all three major cloud providers — AWS, GCP, and Azure. We invest in our teams which only makes the organization more successful.
How would you describe your tech team culture in a single word, and why would you choose that word?
Collaborative! We are a global company that embraces different backgrounds and varying cultures to present a wonderful array of viewpoints. We get to experience ideas and approaches on a variety of topics from a collection of brilliant minds, and I find that to be an amazing organizational culture to be a part of.
Violet is a unified e-commerce API company.
What’s one character trait or skill set that a successful candidate should have to land a spot on your team?
A strong desire to find clarity. Everything we do is infused with a focus on seeking clarity and communicating it to others to develop a common understanding. We look at clarity as the structure and cleanliness of one’s thinking and reasoning. This is both a skill and a practice, as we’re all working hard to improve our thinking and sharpen our ability to transfer clarity.
If you love breaking down challenging problems into elegant solutions, this is the place for you. If you love creating high-leverage documentation to ensure input from other fantastic engineers when making key decisions, this is the place for you. If you feel like great code is written in a way that anyone can understand, this is the place for you. If you feel like customers deserve clarity in how they use their product in order to be successful, this is the place for you.
If you love breaking down challenging problems into elegant solutions, this is the place for you.”
What’s the biggest project your technical teams are planning for 2023, and why is it important for the success of the business as a whole?
We don’t really have one giant project. We like to distribute the projects into smaller chunks that can be owned by individuals or a couple of engineers. Each allows engineers to focus on a part of the system, as well as the parts of our business that excite them the most. At the moment we have projects in the following categories: merchant dashboard, channel dashboard, analytics, payments & payouts, analytics, e-commerce integrations, merchant onboarding, and several more. Each engineer is a high-impact engineer, and our bar for technical ability and kindness are equally quite high.
How would you describe your tech team culture in a single word, and why would you choose that word?
Exceptional. We work really hard to take each challenge in front of us and solve it in a way that most people wouldn't. We believe there are no shortcuts. Often, the fastest way to the destination is the long, detailed, thorough way. This means not falling into the same old patterns of the past, and building a team that's the opposite of the less-than-great experiences many of us have had in the past.
It can be more energy at times to pursue the exception, but hard work pays off. We don’t mean more work, but good work. We’ve all been told to grind and work too much, and we are an exception to that rule, as well. We’re here to do our best work rooted in healthy bodies and minds that can actually take on the types of challenges we endeavor to solve on a day-to-day basis.
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