Lunatech

Lunatech

Lunatech is a challenging organisation with self-managing developers. In small teams we work on projects for our customers, both from customer location and from our own office in Rotterdam. We don’t have account managers or project managers; our senior developers are responsible for successful delivery of their projects to our customers.

We build custom software systems for them, and our focus is on system integration, backend systems and custom dashboards. We’re exclusively a JVM shop; we have done a lot of Java over the last decade, and for the last couple of years we’re also doing a lot of Scala. We’re not tied to specific technologies, but we look for what suits each project. To give a concrete example, we do a fair amount of Scala with Akka and Play framework and we often use Elastic Search, MongoDB, Postgres. Our source code is on GitHub.

We regularly work from our customers’ offices because we believe that that’s the best way to discover their real needs. But on Fridays we all work from our Rotterdam office, which gives us plenty of opportunity to share knowledge and have fun together. We spend part of our Fridays on getting better at what we are doing; we form study groups or book clubs on tech or books that interest us, or we experiment with new technology.

We are active in the community; we have conference speakers, published book authors, Lightbend-certified Scala trainers, we sponsor conferences and we host a monthly meetup on functional programming in our office.