Altonomy Employee Benefits and Perks

At Altonomy, we try to strike a balance between quality and quantity. On the one hand, we do not want to deliver quick but shoddy code and solutions that would ultimately require multiple improvements and upgrades thereafter. But at the same time, we also do not want to spend an excessive amount of time to deliver a single solution. As a result, we currently are able to deliver small features multiple times within a day and larger projects and changes that require more attention take no more than a few days. We also encourage new joiners, be it junior or senior, to push to production within the first week.

Code quality is a responsibility we embed in the entire team. This is an underlying goal that is in any and all solutions we aim to deliver and is the responsibility of every single member of the team, be it junior or senior. We also do not have a QA approach here and as such, the onus is on the team to ensure that this is a consistent theme with every delivery. We abide by the KISS principle and as a result, the team and all its members make it a point to never make something more complicated than it needs to be.

We have an open culture where everyone is encouraged to suggest, implement, and push for new technologies. In this regard, we encourage everyone in the team to ask themselves a singular question: would this benefit the team? We use this as a guiding principle when thinking about adopting any new technologies. This is to ensure everyone is thinking as a unit and to encourage a collaborative effort. If the answer to the question is a resounding yes, we do not waste any time to begin working on it and potentially even explore ways to bring the idea and methodology further.

An underlying theme within our technology team members is that we are all builders. We utilise codes and algorithms to express and implement ideas, thoughts, and improvements. When it comes to the bottom of it, every single one of our team members is an engineer through and through. As part of this DNA, one of the key things we strive for and continuously think about in all of our efforts is automation. This is one of the main and most important reasons why we are able remain an incredibly lean team while still able to deliver the most efficient solution possible.

Ownership is a key value we maintain in any and all efforts undertaken by the technology team. Every single member in the team owns every part of the project and system - be it from ideation to delivery, or in the operations and maintenance of these systems. We strive and perpetuate a results-driven culture amongst the team which is consistent with the rest of our business. This is to ensure we are aware of the accountability we should have for the work that we produce and as such, the value of ownership plays an important role in maintaining this culture code. Simply put, if and when the results are not as expected, we ensure that we are looking at ourselves first for the solution rather than pushing the blame to others.