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At FINN, we are determined to build the most popular car subscription platform. We are on a promising path and hit $100 million annualized recurring revenues (ARR) in 2022, in our third year of existence. Supporting this immense growth we need technology. But as the company changed so much in only three years, our technological needs changed just as much. As my colleague Ish Zafar outlined in his article No-code isn’t scalable, we were facing a range of technical challenges that were a loud cry for action....

A few weeks ago, a visitor to our Munich office asked me how to hire and retain good engineers. It’s a tough question to answer because there is no step-by-step plan to convince people to spend the majority of their daily waking hours on your project or company. Especially if they should be invested in it for a few years. What I learned from recruiting and being a People Partner for multiple start-ups and big companies, is that sometimes a great company culture or a competitive salary doesn’t yet by itself lead to accepted offers and happy colleagues....

Hey, so you managed to scale your business from an early-stage startup to a fast-growing scale-up. This means your tech has grown a lot since. With an ever-growing system, how do you keep an eye on everything and make sure that it is all running and customers are not facing any downtimes or errors? Well, we went through the same phase at FINN, growing from a 30 person startup in 2020 to 350+ people in 2022 and expanding to the US as well....

Applying for a job can be stressful, especially attending interviews. That’s why we published this article to help you engineers out there looking for a job to increase your chances of passing an interview. How FINN does tech recruiting The recruiting process at FINN is made up of at least 4 steps. Broken down, it looks something like this: Based on what is written on a CV, recruiters will determine if a candidate meets the minimum competencies and experience needed for the job....

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....

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:...