Onboarding

Starting a new job is always exciting but can be unsettling. You spend the first weeks trying to find your feet not knowing very well what to do or where to turn to. New people to meet, tons of procedures to know about, a myriad of forms to read and sign.

Luckily, I had plenty of help and assistance at Netwealth to navigate through this process and after a few weeks it felt as if I’d been working here for years and as a developer, this means you start to contribute from day one.

Continuous Development

I had all the support I needed to grow and develop from the word go. I was allocated a senior developer to help me integrate into the team and during the first weeks most of my coding was paired. In barely a month I was familiar with the code base of several applications and the standards and processes of the company. In effect, there were intense weeks of high quality one to one tuition and it jump-started the productivity and quality of my contribution in the team.

The company fosters a highly collaborative working environment with continuous shared learning through mentoring, cross-teams learning sessions and technical wikis where everybody is encouraged to participate and contribute.

Many of these sessions are recorded on video so they are available if attendance is not particularly convenient at that part of the day.

For example I’m not a C# developer, but when I can, I always try to make the C# standards sessions. Programming concepts are portable to other languages and why would you not tap on tens of years of experience and expertise of your colleagues when they are so readily available?

Teamwork makes the dream work

Netwealth is structured in highly skilled, collaborative, diverse and multidisciplinary teams composed of frontend and backend engineers, Q&A and Testing and a Product Manager.

Success is achieved by teams not by individuals and we all take part in planning the sprint. It’s very unusual for me to work on an item that doesn’t require the input of a different developer. We also have direct communication channels with other teams to share challenges or solutions that we find they are likely to encounter at some point.

Despite this being a remote role, I’ve never had the feeling of being isolated. Very much the opposite; video calls and pair programming are part of the daily routine. I feel very supported by my team and I always try to support them in any way I can. I value them and I feel valued. It gives me a sense of belonging, sometimes difficult to achieve when you work remotely.

Agile

These days it’s rare to find a software company that doesn’t work “agile”. Very often this ends up in delivery dynamics where quantity prevails over quality. The semantics are often misunderstood. “Sprint”, “velocity”...

Agile at Netwealth is not about working more, but about working better. It truly upholds the Agile principles of “collaborate, deliver, reflect and learn”. We do a retrospective of every sprint where we celebrate our successes as a team but also analyse the things that didn’t go according to plan. This is done in a very constructive way and self reflection is encouraged.

Netwealth Family

My research before joining Netwealth showed that despite being a relatively young company, it was already a prominent name in the fintech world and in the City of London. It boasted an impressive line up on its board of directors and share register, healthy and strong investment and glowing and regular coverage in the national press.

The last hurdle, prior to joining the company, was an interview with our COO and co founder, which I found both surprising and humbling. That sent a strong signal to me that Netwealth was a company interested also in the person behind the CV. About a month ago he scheduled a meeting in my calendar “just to see how you are settling in”.

We have regular conference calls where everybody keeps up to date with the business progress. One-to-one meetings with line managers (to share any concerns) are scheduled every other week and a generous new package of employee benefits has just been introduced this month.

Our CEO and co-founder recently described Netwealth as “a family”. And after only three months here, it feels that way.

If this sounds attractive, and you'd like to join our team, check out our Open Engineering Positions.