Superside is an always-on design company that delivers great design at scale to Enterprise teams—from everyday production design work to large-scale strategic design solutions.
Trusted by 300+ businesses including Facebook, PUMA, Amazon, Shopify, Kiva and more, Superside makes design hassle-free for Marketing, Creative and Product Design teams. Visit www.superside.com for ongoing design help.
Life at Superside’s Tech, Product & Design team
Our TPD (Tech, Product and Design) team is remote and contains multiple self-directed and cross-functional teams fully distributed across EMEA. The members represent 14 nationalities with alumni from Adobe, Revolut, Yandex and Mail.ru. We are intellectually curious and creative thinkers, eager to grow and ready to make a big impact in the world. We analyse data, talk to users, prototype and iterate. We don’t need offices, our conversations happen in Google Meets and Slack. We focus on discovering and solving real-world user problems, not just building and shipping features. Teams at Superside own the complete software lifecycle starting from the roadmap, implementation, testing, deployment and operations. We foster an open feedback culture and Everyone’s opinion is important to push our common mission forward. As a member of our engineering team you’ll take on a key role in this process and see your work be used by amazing companies. Today, our engineering and product team consists of 26 members, but we are growing fast and aim to grow our organization to 100 people in the next 12 to 18 months.
What we are looking for
We are growing quickly and looking for software engineers at all levels on all our teams across product and infrastructure. Most of our software engineers would describe themselves as a T-shaped engineer with one skill they are expert it (e.g. frontend, backend or devops), and multiple skills they are familiar with. Please apply and we will make sure to match you with an opening that fits your background and interest. You can expect to get your hands dirty with:
- Building, testing, and shipping features like chat, staffing, project management, design collaboration, integrations, workflow editor, and more
- Be part of important product discussions, and discuss with product managers, ux designers, and other engineers
- Creating and contributing to technical specs and testing/rollout plans
- Mentoring and supporting teammates to help them grow
- Be part of important technical difficult discussions
The tech platform we are building
Superside is right now in a unique position to expand on existing deep customer relationships and we are gradually introducing a customizable creative operations system – specifically built for the large-scale enterprise use case. First iterations of many of these elements are already in place.
This “Creative OS” is structured around 4 distinct functional areas:
Drag&Drop Brief Editor: The customer can configure their own creative briefs per product and define rules for who should be allowed to submit projects.
Assignment, Planning & Project Management: The customer can create automatic assignment rules for incoming projects (e.g. all critical deadline projects should go to Superside) or decide on a per project basis inside the Superside PM tool who should do what. The customer can also plan campaigns, chat internally on an “Epic” level and manage their own non-Superside projects.
Project Execution, Design Commenting & Collaboration: The most important part of the Superside app is the actual project execution, where Superside should impose an opinionated process for how creative projects should be executed in various stages. Commenting by multiple team members should be made easy and centered around the creative use case.
Output, File Management & Result Measurement: Finally, all creative projects need to go where customers can see them, and Superside should make it easy to output projects to Digital Assets Managers, Marketing Clouds, Ad Servers or FB/Google ad managers. The dream is for Superside to eventually “close the loop” and link the actual project result performance back to the creative that has worked on the file.
Along every step of the 4-step framework the customer will also be given the opportunity to create workflows and automations. Inside the Superside’s workflow editor, the customer can break down complex projects into milestones, decision points and automated integrations (e.g. «add final file to DAM», «create Facebook ad-group using final output» or «push final file to email marketing software»). When the customer creates a new project, they select the right workflow template to get started. By automating the process, the customer is free from having to update old process documents and to know what to do when and. Work items are sent to the participants notifying them of what they have new to do, and integrations are executed automatically.
Our tech stack
Superside’s backend is fully written in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot 2, Hibernate, RDS / MySql, Radisson/Redis, Junit for testing, ElasticSearch, and our frontend is NodeJS, Lambda Edge, Next.js/ React, Styled Components, Typescript, we also use Datadog and TrackJS for monitoring. On our infrastructure, we use Terraform, AWS SQS/SNS, Cloudfront, Route53, EC2, S3, WAF, Parameter Store, ALB, Docker, Pusher, Mailgun and are using Gitlab as our DevOps/CICD platform..
Superside’s core principles
Be kind and trusting. We treat everyone with warmth and respect. We are open and transparent. We always start from positive intent and keep it there until that trust is violated.
Seek the truth and be ego-free. Never blindly say “yes, that sounds like a good idea”. We believe disagreement is necessary to achieve progress, as long as our intention is constructive, and not selfish.
Insist on clear, simple solutions. Complex structures are hard to implement, costly to maintain, scale poorly, and difficult to improve. There is no shortage of good ideas to work on.
Know what NOT to do. Conclude, move on, say no. Ineffectiveness comes from endless search for the perfect solution, constant alignment meetings, slow decision-making and doing too many things at once.
Decide and take responsibility locally. Whoever is closest to the problem should own up to it and form a forceful opinion of what is the right decision. Management should view its role as enabling others to take the right decision.
Understand good design experience. We are in the business of delivering great design. Therefore, we must appreciate and understand beauty and function – both on and off the job.
Learn, create and have fun. Let’s not forget that some of the greatest inventions in the world were the result of play.
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