How we work at Pennylane

At Pennylane, we care deeply about how we build, not only what we build.

Our ways of working are based on strong ownership, high standards, close collaboration between Product, Design and Tech, and a pragmatic focus on customer impact. We aim to build useful, reliable and scalable products for accounting firms and SMEs, while keeping teams autonomous and close to the problems they solve.

This page brings together public resources that offer insight into how we work: our product principles, engineering culture, hiring approach, onboarding philosophy, and company culture.

Useful resources:

• Pennylane’s Product Team: 6 Key Principles
• How Pennylane successfully scaled Shape Up
• Pennylane Engineering Blog
• Our Engineering Principles

Product principles

Our Product teams focus on impact, customer understanding and pragmatic execution. We work closely with users, accountants, designers and engineers to make sure we are solving the right problems and building the right product experiences.

What this reflects:

• we care about solving real customer problems;
• we value product thinking and ownership;
• we work in focused cycles inspired by Shape Up;
• we aim to keep teams autonomous while scaling;
• we involve Product, Design and Tech early in the process;
• we prefer pragmatic decisions over heavy processes.