Upness

Upness is a Los Angeles based manufacturer of natural and organic cosmetics, having its own ecommerce store. They produce various kinds of cosmetics with their mission to produce them in a sustainable, organic and natural way. Upness CTO, for whom we had previously done other projects, asked us in November 2019 to form a team for the newly created brand (Upness) that needed a bran new e-commerce store. He was the one to design the architecture and needed a development team that would develop it for him. The main challenge were expectations - the client required developers that were on Senior & Tech Lead levels in terms of frontend, with excellent communication skills, ability to learn & work with Shopify and proven experience in optimizing frontend performance. At the same time, the store needed to be developed quickly as the client was facing a deadline related to a planned conference event. Another challenge was the time gap - Los Angeles is 9 hours behind Poland, which is where the team is based. Therefore, this project required the very best engineers of our frontend team, but also very good communicators. Is also required from the team to adjust their working hours in a way that would provide a minimum 3 hours of communication window with the client’s team based in LA.