A FFP interview with Stellate Software Engineer Stephan Schneider.
Stephan is a Berlin based software engineer with a deep love for backend logic and a living example that attending meetups can help your career progression. He started working for Contentful after being on one of the meetups they hosted and stuck with them for many years, building and maintaining various APIs, including their GraphQL API from scratch. He later toured a few meetups to give back to the community by talking about the lessons learned - design decisions, developer experience and performance on scale - and ended up chatting with the Stellate team on one of those. Now he's an engineer for Stellate, doubling-down on what he loves to do: helping users with their backend APIs.
Hear Stephan's perspective on:
Getting into coding
Love for hardware
Overclocking CPUs
Outdated university classes
Leaving university
First job
Dream job requirements
Back-End attraction
CSS avoidance
Internal framework downside
Community adoption benefits
Facebook’s recruiting masterstroke
Longing to learn
Pull request driven learning
Triangulating feedback
Delayed feedback reflection
“Listening to listen”
Gratitude
Science Experiments w/ Kids
New Job
GraphQL Love
Quitting Beloved Job
Joining A Small Startup
Productive Pair Programming
Flow State
Feeling Productive
Starting vs Proceeding
Main Stellate Learnings
Striving For Excellence
Frequent Retrospectives
Liked-Learned-Long For
Overstepping
Developer Buy In
Alignment Phase
Feeling Heard
and much more…We are currently hiring for a lot of new positions at Stellate. If you got interested in potentially working with us, please take a look at our hiring page.