🌄 Our vision

<aside> 💥 We’re impact driven

• We deeply believe that tech is at the service of the business, following the company vision: make freight-forwarding more efficient through technology
• Our engineers work closely with our Product team to deliver impactful, curated and high-quality features
• The tech team is structured in squads, each squad is focused on a business area
• Every decision to implement a new feature is data driven </aside>

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We have a fast-paced delivery

We put a strong focus on the feedback loop, so that we can iterate and continuously improve our work. DORA metrics have been our KPI for many years:

• We carry out more than 20 deployments per day
• We constantly push for a cycle time as short as possible. Ideally a ticket should not take more than 1 day before opening a Pull Request
• We constantly improve our CI/CD so that every potential bug can be caught automatically before production
• We constantly improve our monitoring tools so that we can catch production bugs as early as possible </aside>

<aside> 🤔 We’re constantly challenging the status quo

The tech ecosystem is constantly evolving. Ovrsea welcomes new joiners every week. For these reasons, we know that our processes, our practices and our stack has to constantly be up-to-date:

• We give much importance to technological watch (through coaching, newsletters, self-training)
• We are pro-active in the improvement of our Developer Experience and our delivery
• We actively explore the opportunities GenAI brings to enhance our Developer Experience and to reshape our business. </aside>

<aside> 👪 Our tech team grows slowly but steadily

We put a strong focus on the integration of new comers so that everyone feels empowered and growing at Ovrsea.

Our team is relatively small (a dozen of Software Engineers) but experienced and works well together. We believe we can ship at least as much as a larger team which will have communication overhead.

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⚙️ Our stack

React is the most popular frontend library in the world and uses Typescript

GraphQL is an innovative query language tackling the flaws of the more standard REST APIs. It was developed by Facebook and gets more and more popular. We have been using GraphQL in production for five years

Node is a popular backend environment which uses Typescript

Typescript is the evolved version of the most used web programming language, Javascript. It allows us to speed up our delivery as well as to reduce our feedback loop

AWS is the leading Cloud provider, ensuring an up-to-date and safe infrastructure as well as powerful services.

🔥 Our tech hot topics

⚒️ Improving our DX

We strongly believe that great Developer Experience (DX) leads to faster, higher-quality delivery and greater team satisfaction. Following the principles of Accelerate, we focus on fast feedback loops, ease of testing, and efficient deployment processes.

To push our DX even further, we actively leverage the latest GenAI tools:

• Background agents (via Cursor) help us offload repetitive tasks to AI, letting engineers focus on solving complex architecture challenges.
• AI-powered code reviews assist in detecting potential bugs earlier, even before human review.
• AI-augmented documentation helps engineers find relevant information faster and more efficiently.

In parallel, we continuously refine our CI/CD pipeline to shorten lead times to production and accelerate iteration cycles.

The better the DX, the happier the team!