Job Fair Part 2: Homebot, Vimeo, and Grailed
summary
Three companies state concrete scale and tech: Homebot is a Denver startup claiming to help people build retirement wealth from home equity, runs Ruby on Rails APIs, experiments with Ruby on Jets on AWS Lambda, and lists 102 employees with hybrid offices and standard benefits. Vimeo OTT is a three sided video marketplace solving nasty problems like three‑party multi‑currency accounting, concurrent viewer limits, and thousands of platform apps. Grailed is a Rails monolith with Sorbet and React, about seven and a half million users, 3.5M items for sale, and continuous deployment every ten minutes.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 1:26Problem That Homebot Is Solving
- 6:58Value Streams
- 9:18What Does Engineering at Homebot Look like
- 11:14Collaboration
- 13:56Vimeo Ott
- 14:29Vimeo in 2021
- 16:43The Ott Platform
- 17:45How Our Engineering Teams Are Structured
- 18:28Three-Party Multi-Currency
- 18:55Exploding Gif
- 19:44Subscription Tiering
- 24:50Graild
- 26:24Engineering
- 29:41Learning and Development Opportunities
- 30:09How the Engineering Team Is Organized
- 32:03Who Is Grailed
- 32:29Highlights
- 33:34Benefits
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