FreeAgent Engineering
engineering.freeagent.com · Company blog · on HN since 2011
The engineering team at FreeAgent, an Edinburgh accounting software company, writes about infrastructure, Ruby, architecture decisions, and remote teams.
What HN saysHN mentions are mostly the company's own hiring posts for senior engineers and an engineering manager in Edinburgh or remote in the UK.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Running a high-availability SaaS infrastructure without breaking the bank3 people · 22 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 2How We Make Architectural Decisions2 people · 13 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 3External authentication scripts in OpenVPN the right way2 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 4Upgrading to Ruby 2.1 (and why complex regexes will inevitably hurt you)1 people · 63 points · first shared 2014 · 27 comments on HN
- 5CoffeeScript: two sugars, no bitter aftertaste1 people · 44 points · first shared 2012 · 10 comments on HN
- 6How to Measure Pointless Things?1 people · 18 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7Serverless: From POC to Production1 people · 17 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8We love accessibility (and you should too)1 people · 15 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Micro-Batching Event Data into Amazon Redshift1 people · 15 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 10Many timezones, one team – how do you stand up?1 people · 15 points · first shared 2016 · 8 comments on HN
- 11Speeding up SSL1 people · 14 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 12Working from Home: The Desks of FreeAgent Engineering1 people · 14 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
- 13Tooled Up. A brief history of SaaS tools we’ve loved (and lost)1 people · 12 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14Moving data centres in 9 minutes1 people · 11 points · first shared 2013 · 3 comments on HN
- 15A brief history of mobile development at FreeAgent1 people · 11 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
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lylo · 2015-08-03
FreeAgent, Edinburgh or REMOTE (UK)
http://www.freeagent.com
We're looking for a senior software engineer and an engineering manager to come and work on our flagship product FreeAgent. We're a growing team of 85, based in Edinburgh but with remote staff around the UK (7 engineers are fully remote).
We have a lot of happy customers (40,000+, NPS=76!), a lot of traffic (13 million+ page views/mo), and some lovely staff to work alongside, learn from and have fun with. We invest a lot of time in our platform (code health, scalability, security) as well as working on new features, which is nice.
Our engineers tend to be full stack, but we’re seeing people move towards more specialist work these days, such as front-end programming (we're doing a lot of React.js, primarily on our iOS app), our real-time accounting engine, data science. People play to their strengths really. Our stack is intentionally straightforward. It's sensible and sustainable. Javascript aside, we mainly write Ruby alongside MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Puppet.
We are looking for UK-based full-time staff only right now.
Job listings and applications via http://freeagent.workable.com
Our Engineering Blog can be found at http://engineering.freeagent.com