Hello, lovely fellows! My name is Monica, and I have lived my whole life in Cairo until I relocated to Munich this March to start my full-time job as a Frontend Engineer at FINN. In this article, I am going to share with you my whole journey, how it all started, insights into our FINN culture, challenges, and some strategies that helped me adapt faster. Getting the job As a fresh graduate in computer science, my first job requirements were simple: I needed a place where I could work on a real-world project that uses cutting-edge technology, and be flexible enough to allow me to explore a variety of fields until I found my preferred expertise area....

When I joined FINN in April 2022, I was welcomed with incredible enthusiasm and was constantly reminded by many people what an exciting role I have. Admittedly, all sounded a bit strange at the beginning but now that I am three months into this job, I can comfortably say they were right! I am the first person officially joining FINN as a Business Automation Manager (BAM), a new role at FINN and a new role in the industry....

At FINN, we grew from 0 to 20,000 car subscriptions, expanded to the US, all in just two years. Those statistics bring one word to mind: speed. We were fast, and how we did so is no secret either. If you want to know, read it in the following article: How A German Start-up Achieved 4 Mn € ARR In One Year | by Ishtiaque Zafar | Medium All that speed came with certain costs....

About FINN FINN is a start-up founded in 2019 in the German automotive hub of Munich, that aims to make mobility fun and sustainable through our car subscription service. Like many other start-ups, we have BIG goals – to be the most popular car subscription company in Europe and the US. Having a great product is one thing, another thing that is imperative to a company’s growth is the people. A promising company attracts promising talents....

This blog was originally published here. Every time when creating a new API that is meant to be serverless, I consider or have been asked to consider using an API framework together with a serverless application framework like Serverless Framework or AWS SAM. So far, I have found none that impress me. Here’s why: They do not promote modularity If you have a look at frameworks like serverless-http or nestjs + serverless, or at zappa + flask for python lovers, all of them follow the same pattern:...

This article is a sneak peek at how we ensure data quality at FINN. It explains why we monitor and alert on data quality, which data quality is essential to us, and how we implemented it via dbt. Furthermore, the article illustrates how it can leverage the distributed knowledge regarding business processes by allowing all teams to contribute to data quality. The impact of this on FINN More than 70% of business logic data testing comes from people who are not part of our core data engineering team....

If you are using Serverless Framework, it already has a built-in preview deployment feature with Serverless CI. You can read A Guide to Preview Deployments with Serverless CI/CD for more information. Serverless Dashboard - CI/CD settings Serverless CI supports GitHub and Bitbucket out of the box and you can manage it from Serverless Dashboard by going to your project’s CI/CD settings. In this post, you will be reading about how to implement preview deployments by using GitLab CI/CD....

We started to use Airtable at the early stages as I described in my previous article. Today, you will be reading how we tackled Airtable’s API limits while the company grows to 10.000 car subscribers since 2019. Andreas Wixler (CTO) initiated the Slack channel for Airtable Action Squad After we hit the limit, we were no longer able to provide a reliable service to our customers. Therefore, we initiated an immediate action squad functioning cross-departments with the lead of Christian (VP Engineering - B2B), Tome (Tech Lead - Customer Product), and Alexander (VP Engineering - Data & Finance)....

Hello, lovely fellows! This is gonna be my first article here; therefore I don’t want to dive into technical details. You will be reading about the journey of FINN, a leading German mobility startup, started their business with No Code and then slowly expatriated to more code (mix of no code and hard code with databases). The company didn’t invest too much time in the beginning for the coding. It just started so simple and overall lead to a great success in several years:...