Our number one priority is to ensure that all our engineers feel supported and thrive at Form3 from day one!

Our onboarding process is as streamlined and lightweight as possible. As a fully remote company, we have tailored our working practices and onboarding to ensure that new joiners are up to speed as quickly and painlessly as possible.

All new starters are assigned a buddy, who will actively support them during the onboarding process and beyond.

New engineers receive their laptop and essential kit before they start. Your login details will be sent to you, so you can easily log on and meet everyone on your first day.

No need to stress about installing or preparing anything beforehand. Your buddy will help you get up and running during your first few weeks, so just focus on resting up before your first day.

Starting a new job is always stressful and nerve wracking. This can be even more difficult in the remote setting, where new colleagues can’t meet you for a coffee or take you out for lunch.

As a new engineer, you can expect your typical first week to consist of:

• Meeting your buddy, your team and our CTO, Steve Cook
• Attending your first company all hands, which typically takes place every Monday
• Setting up the all the developer tools and making sure it’s all working locally
• An introduction to the payment flow, as well as the different payment schemes our platform supports
• Walking through Form3’s high level component architecture
• Getting to know the services that your team is responsible for
• Identifying what technologies are new to you and making a plan to upskill together with your buddy and your team lead

With the initial stress of the first week over with, the focus of the onboarding process shifts to making sure that our new joiners are able to contribute independently and confidently to their team projects.

As a new joiner, you can expect the some of the following for your first 12 weeks at Form3:

• Pairing with your buddy to deliver your first piece of work 🚢
• Get comfortable with our monitoring and logging tools, as well as our release process
• Take on increasingly larger pieces of work with support from your team and buddy, even creating new services from scratch 🚀
• Begin to take the technical lead on architecture, testing and development
• Gain the technical knowledge to propose changes to our architecture and processes

Our new engineers usually have a contractual 6 month probation period. The end-of-probation review is a lightweight and informal process between the engineer and their tech lead.

The process usually consists of:

• Reviewing all of your achievements at Form3
• Identifying any opportunities for improvement
• Discussing the your future goals and career growth
• Making a plan on how to support you to grow and thrive in the team

Once engineers have passed probation, they are expected to participate in on-call and recruitment duties. Training and support in taking on these new duties is then provided after the probation period.