Uscreen is a hyper-growth (and profitable) bootstrapped product-led SaaS business. They are revolutionizing the way that video-based entrepreneurs & creators monetize their content. Uscreen has grown from 30 to 100 employees over the last year — with the best yet to come.
Uscreen provides an all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs to sell subscriptions, VOD, and live-streamed events on the web, through mobile apps, and via OTT (over-the-top) devices. 10,000+ video creators build, market, and sell their content with Uscreen — and they generate hundreds-of-millions of dollars in revenue doing it.
They usually work on the new features in a small group of 1-3 developers & one designer. They are using the approach described by Basecamp for project management called Shape Up.
As a programmer on their monolith team, you will work on various features and participate in refactoring the codebase.
In their team, they have dedicated front-end programmers, but you still need to understand how their front-end structured and be able to cover features from A to Z.
Here are some things they’ve worked on recently to give you a sense of what you’ll be doing day-to-day:
You know Ruby on Rails and have a desire to learn the whole stack from Ruby to Javascript. You want to become a Manager of One. You take ownership and you trying deeply understand each feature and code change.
Their front-end teammates are working on more complex problems and helping maintain their component library, so rails engineers will not need to go into nitty-gritty details unless they want to.
Remote & async:
They are a remote team distributed in different time zones, so they develop a rule of overlapping time from 9 to noon EST time.
Uscreen (HQ: Вашингтон, США) — универсальная видеоплатформа для создателей контента. Помогают монетизировать и распространять видео клиентов — от частных лиц до компаний из списка Fortune 500. 10 000+ клиентов в 195 странах создают, монетизируют свой контент с помощью Uscreen.
