Hello sophilabs, welcome to NYC!

Layne Hofman
May 22, 2018

We are thrilled to announce that sophilabs has expanded to Brooklyn, NY! Our new office is located in a popular co-working space in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn and is home base to a small group of developers who have joined the sophilabs team.

We have always been thinking of expanding to the United States in order to get closer to our clients, so we are very excited about the expansion. The new location will aid us in our mission to continue providing excellent service to our customers and delivering high quality software.

Starting Off on the Right Foot with the Apprenticeship Program

The inauguration of the Brooklyn office began with our first stateside Apprenticeship Program. We received 226 applicants and eventually hired four junior developers to participate in the program.

The Apprenticeship Program is the way that we generally hire junior developers, both in Montevideo and in New York. Apprentices spend two months under the supervision of a senior developer mentor developing and practicing the skills and competencies required for full-time developer roles using the sophilabs Apprenticeship Curriculum. For the first month, apprentices work on trainings and test projects before getting the chance to work with real clients during the second month of the program and see first-hand what it's like to work in software development.

At the end of the program, our junior developers have honed their programming skills and are much better prepared for their careers in software development, hopefully with sophilabs!

sophilabs Brooklyn office
sophilabs Brooklyn office

Down Under in Brooklyn

With a large community of tech startups, DUMBO has been dubbed "the center of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle". Employees can get lunch in any of the many trendy restaurants in the area and can take an afternoon walk around the waterfront Brooklyn Bridge Park just a few blocks from the office.

Open Office for Open Source Enthusiasts

Just as we are open source enthusiasts, we are also open office enthusiasts. The open office format helps us to collaborate and foster the value of teamwork that is so important to sophilabs' values. For this reason, we were really attracted to the community environment of a coworking space when thinking of our new location. Our Brooklyn team works out of a private office in a popular coworking space, meaning they have the privacy of their own office but also the option to engage with the wider community whenever they want.

Looking to the Future

The opening of the New York office is a large part of our long term growth strategy. We hope to continue expanding our presence in the US in order to establish ourselves as an international company and increase our recognition within the US market. Thanks for accompanying us on this journey, and we hope you will come visit us in our new location!

If you are in the New York area, check us out and see if we can help you to grow your software product!

"Hello sophilabs, welcome to NYC!" by Layne Hofman is licensed under CC BY SA. Source code examples are licensed under MIT.

Cover photo by Phil Roeder.

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