Category: Product Management

Imagine working with a team that embraces experiments, offers various growth opportunities, and encourages your development. This is us. We are self-motivated, responsible specialists who work effectively with no or little supervision but with comprehensive support. All of this is a result of our company culture, which heavily relies on the meticulous hiring process. 

The Railsware team designed a collaborative hiring approach to manage candidates’ expectations regarding future responsibilities even before they join us. It also helps us ensure a candidate shares our values and vision, can efficiently grow in our environment, and will be happy working with us (because a happy specialist makes a productive and creative Railswarian😉).

We look for talents that are great in what they do. Here’s how we do it step by step.

*The process varies depending on the position

Filling in the form

The easiest way to contact us is to check out the career page and apply. Our recruitment team processes an application and gets back to you within seven business days.

Interview

*You might be asked to complete a Test Task (depending on the position).

Nice to meet you! This is our first personal contact and we’d love to know more about your experience, motivation, and your dream job. Remember, this is a dialog, not an examination. You are more than welcome to ask questions about the Railsware team, processes, workflow, or anything else you might want to know about us.

Pair Collaboration

Next comes collaboration/s with a Railswarian. 

Pair work is an essential part of our team’s culture. It’s an efficient way to communicate ideas, discuss objections, explain the vision and stay productive as a team. During our pair collaboration, we work together as equal teammates on several hands-on tasks to simulate your future work. The tasks are designed to help you show your knowledge, experience, and best soft and hard skills. It allows both sides to understand if it is a good match.

Offer

We share the final decision and our detailed feedback the same or the following day. Welcome aboard!

If there’s no offer, we always strive to explain why and tell you what aspects you can improve to get back to us later.

We like to spend time together, sometimes even with our significant ones. Since we are distributed around the globe, we have online events, small local offline events, and even big offline company gatherings. It’s always interesting to meet colleagues from different locations and have fun together outside of work.

Socialization Online

Online random coffee

We use an app called Donut to help us get to know each other better. Donut randomly regularly matches people and encourages them to meet (remotely) for coffee, lunch, or donuts. These can be one-to-one or group meetings. 

Before the sync, RWNs can choose an interesting topic to be an ice-breaker or share some information about themselves. The app automatically attempts to find available time slots that work for all attendees and also allows to chat asynchronously if there are no available slots this week.

Occasional online masterclasses and other games 

We also have online events where we can participate with our families. For example, we had a mixology event where we mixed cocktails 🍸 and mocktails 🍹. And after a few cooking masterclasses, we’ve advanced our craft in Mexican cuisine 🌮 and cooking chicken pies 🥮.

Socialization Offline

Local Diners

We choose some nice restaurants in the city and can enjoy the taste of some American, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese cuisine and share some funny stories with teammates at the next desk.

Railsware Weekends and Parties

Every year, we can have one or two offline weekends in Poland and Ukraine.

This get-together time is for fun and social engagement. It’s the perfect chance to reconnect, have fun, and make new friends.

With our remote setup, many of us don’t see each other often, so these weekends are a blast.

Also, during the year we may have summer picnics, winter quests, Halloween and New Year’s parties or other entertainment activities. 

Wow, you’ve read it all! It seems that you are really interested in us. Perhaps, it’s time to finally get acquainted? 

• Check our vacancies on the Career Page.
• Visit our blog to find out more about our approaches, tools, and time-tested technologies.
• Subscribe to our YouTube channel, where we explain complicated things in simple words.
• Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to always know what makes us tick.

😉 See ya!!

Railsware unites remarkable people from many countries and cultures. Everyone finds something great here and, on average, stays with us for 5+ years.

We’ve spoken to Railswarians to find out what team’s advantages they value the most. Here’s what we found out.

Flexible Schedule

Railswarians work from different parts of the world. We don’t have a fixed full-time schedule and are flexible in organizing our work and meetings. RWNs know exactly when to book a video call and when to choose asynchronous communication and don’t complicate things by scheduling a call if a problem can be dealt with within a single message.

Remote Work

Not only are we free to choose almost any location to work from (the only criterion is a decent internet connection), but we also provide you with a bonus, you can spend to set up a comfortable home office or rent a coworking space in a chosen location.

Strong Team

In our survey, all RWNs mentioned a strong team as one of the most powerful advantages they felt once joining Railsware. However, we all have a different understanding of what a strong team means. Among the most common phrases we heard were: “I don’t have to carry everything on my shoulders,” “Railsware is an experienced, motivated professional team that can teach you something new,” “Everyone has a great responsibility and ownership level,” “These are the people I can always rely on.”

Life-Work Balance

Railswarians respect and value life-work balance. We don’t work on weekends, holidays (that each RWN chooses for themselves), or vacations. We want to make sure that all teammates have enough time for their families and hobbies. RWNs indicate time off in their calendars, so no one bothers them while they are swimming, playing with their kids, or having an appointment with a doctor.

Benefits

As a distributed team, our main desire was to keep all the benefits flexible and available to each Railswarian no matter the location. Also, we wanted to simplify access to them and reduce unnecessary stress for the team. After some experiments, we created a bureaucracy-free approach to benefit, according to which a Railswarian gets an additional sum and uses it the way they feel is right without any reports.  

Content of Work

A product studio business model provides us with a wide variety of choices. It allows us to create our own and clients’ products and choose tools, technologies, and approaches that work best in each particular case. Such freedom makes it easy to enjoy our work and lets us forget about pressure and limitations.  

Company Processes and Approaches

Railsware is a project-driven company focused on automating and streamlining processes wherever possible. We love well-defined processes but we don’t let them overshadow our end objectives. That’s why we’re always ready to create, test, improve, and reinvent them as needed, ensuring they continue to help us achieve our goals. 

Open Feedback & Communication

It’s incredible how fast people get used to openly sharing their opinions and suggesting improvements when joining Railsware. No matter the position, people can freely discuss processes, projects, and strategies and offer their vision of making them better. It leads us to the next benefit.