By Pau Vidal, Full Stack Engineer

Being a Software Engineer at Happy Scribe has been my best professional experience by far, and one of my best life experiences. Here’s what surprised me when I joined and the things that make me enjoy my job after 4 years of working here.

Things that surprised me when I joined

• It took one morning to set up my laptop.
• I pushed to production on my second day.
• Deploying to production takes 3 minutes.
• Great test coverage! No fear of pushing to production. Running the full test suite takes 2 minutes.
• Great codebase. Every engineer in the team agrees our code is the cleanest we have worked on.

Things that make me enjoy my job

• We’re shipping to production multiple times a day.
• We have ~0 DevOps work.
• We’re all full-stack Product Engineers with real product ownership.
• Smart and humble colleagues who care about giving good feedback. Great PR reviews & discussions.
• Positive impact:
  • HappyScribe.com is a 5-star product that saves a ton of hours to thousands of users every day.
  • We’re giving a fair gig to more than 400 freelancers all over the world. This is what they say about us: “Work From Home as a Transcriber at Happy Scribe”.

What makes these things possible?

Most of the things I mentioned are about shipping fast and focusing on product. This is not a coincidence: we are deliberately optimizing for tech simplicity.