One of the main particularities of Cabify is that it operates as a marketplace for the ride-hailing industry. In a marketplace business model, there are at least two actors: supply...
It’s more common than you might think for a UX Writer to receive requests followed by comments like ‘it’s just a couple of words’. At first it seemed a little...
As in any organization with a vital product component, we face challenges in helping or driving the growth of the people who are part of the product teams. We have...
And you are? I’ll start by introducing myself. My name is Mariana Gomes, I have co-founded two startups before joining Cabify, where I have started as a Product Marketing Manager...
A universally misunderstood title. Yeah, so what is a Product Manager? The Product Manager role is a relatively new and generally misunderstood role. So what is a Product Manager’s job?...
The journey we started in 2011 when the first rider used our app has led Cabify to create tools to support riders along with the countries we operate. First, we...
Today, ways of working or practices are basically mirrored from one company to another without thinking about it. Models like the Spotify squads, bad agile practices or processes which instead...
Today I would like to share with you our experience (and some code) on writing acceptance tests at Cabify. Each time we deliver some broken code to production, thousands of...
Since Cabify became the first European app for VTC vehicles in 2011, things have changed a lot. Millions of journeys, riders and drivers use our platform. On this journey, it...
We have been looking for a CEP for some time now. If you don’t know what a CEP is, the Wikipedia article explains it pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_event_processing. There are many...
We use heavily Google’s infrastructure to delegate the administration of many of our data needs. We like to focus on features and Product instead of operations, we like to focus...
When I started as a Cabify Engineer, Cabify was growing exceptionally quickly. This is quite common in a large start-up, but for me it was a real challenge as I...
tl;dr: **never ship your first implementation of a feature and be prepared to make trade-offs. I was happily cutting through email when Patricia — one of our Lead Engineers —...
I’ve come to realize that my work has greatly benefited from constructive feedback over the years and that teamwork is undoubtedly the backbone of any successful product. Every stakeholder has...
After 3 difficult years, we all wanted to connect again. That is why after a lot of work in mid-October we met for Kenia 2022. What is Kenia? Kenia is...
This November we’ve had the opportunity to attend one of the biggest engineering management events worldwide, the LeadDev conference in Berlin and this is a summary of what I have...
When I accepted the role of UX Writer at Cabify, I asked myself if being Brazilian and writing in Spanish would be a limiting factor. Having lived in Spain for...
It’s an exciting time when a new colleague joins the team. You want to know where do they come from? What were their previous jobs? How they will collaborate in...
First, let me introduce myself: my name is Marta Vaquero, I am a programmer with 7 months of experience. I’m currently working as a Software Engineer in the QA Automation...
One year ago, Cabify gave me the opportunity to make a change in my professional career. Until that moment, I was working as a Software Engineer, and I was offered...
One of our principles at Cabify is “Improve our cities”. It depicts as follows: Be purpose driven. Have a positive impact in our society. The city is our customer. Understand...
I joined Cabify in June 2014 after traveling around the world for six months. This is relevant for two reasons: To travel is important in itself. So, if you’re thinking...
In the User Research Team at Cabify, we are quite proud of how we work. During the last two years, we have been building a work process to attend the...
This article outlines our vision of User Research at Cabify. We have a clear mission: to make Cabify an increasingly user-centric organisation and to become a world-class reference of user...
