Our Team Profile

Our team works on developing the exchange industry solution YFU.world. We are employed by different exchange organizations across the globe or engage in project specific freelance work over short, medium and long periods of time.

What we do

Requirements Engineers

Our Requirements Engineers work together with staff from 60 client organizations world wide. Activities involve the elicitation, analysis and specification of requirements; process and system modelling, as well as the administration of existing requirements. Typical challenges - beside language and professional diversity - involve differences in operational approaches and needs that originate from specific markets.

Software Engineers

Development efforts focus around our main product, the different components of YFU.world. All activities typical to software development can be found: Product life cycle management, architecture and solution engineering, modelling; product-, version- and sprint planning; feature development and maintenance, as well as ensuring proper code management and deployment. Important challenges include working as a team across language- & time zones, priority setting and maintaining effective work relationships with the clients of our product worldwide.

Change Manager

Our Change Managers guide operational teams in 60 partner organization world wide through periods of transition. They translate operational goals into actions, identify management sponsorship and secure commitment, develop implementation plans and parameters, implement the change stages, identify gaps and obstacles and adjust the plan as needed. Frequent challenges involve varying operational approaches and work cultures in different parts of the world.

System Administrators

Our Sysadmin activities have a focus on web administration. Tasks include the management of our containerized environment, software and component configurations; as well as security monitoring, prevention and consulting. Besides, there are database related efforts that focus on data integrity, efficiency, quality, and performance.

How we work

That's important to us

We want people to grow on the job and with the challenges provided to them. Learning from each other is key. Delivering high quality work in balance to time and needs is vital. Relationships matter and respect and work conduct and ethics a given.

Project Work

Team members work on site in Germany, the US and Austria; work virtually from home or anywhere in the world. Most of our work is organized in agile sprints. Depending on the task at hand, and personal preference, individual team members take on smaller or larger workloads. Our working language is English. Depending on team role, some work takes place in close interaction with users and customers across multiple time zones.

Team Composition

Our team members are employed by YFU member organizations across the globe or do project specific freelance work over shorter, medium or longer periods of time.

Give back

We want give back to the Open Source community by releasing various modules and fixing issues in technology that we encounter. Sharing expertise knowledge in various fields, as well as building a network of knowledge is part of our work ethics.