As a father with two young children, financial stability is not something that can be overlooked. The needs of children, from nutrition to diapers and basic education, clearly require a significant amount of funds.
This was a consideration for me before resigning from my permanent job at Flip.id. After working for almost 4 years as a Frontend Engineer, for some reason, I decided to seek new challenges.
Working at Flip was an extraordinary moment in my life. Before joining Flip, I had just been laid off from one of the startups in Indonesia on the 17th day of work. The reason was downsizing due to Covid.
At that time, I had just moved from Solo to my wife's parents' house in Bogor. The job that was expected to support the beginning of life after moving turned out to be lost.
During the approximately 2 months of unemployment, I deepened my understanding in web development. I studied until late at night while sending job applications to various companies. I remember at that time, by the permission of Allah, I was not at all pessimistic or giving up.
Being unemployed while still living with my in-laws should not have been a comforting experience. But I admire and am touched by my parents-in-law who never seemed to be upset with my condition, which seemed to only involve eating and going back to my room.
Until finally, my cousin offered why not try applying to Flip? At that time, Flip had implemented full WFH due to Covid. So, I applied, was given a take-home test, interviewed by one of the founders, and finally had a chat with Mas Ari as the CEO.
On July 1, 2020, I officially became a Frontend Engineer at Flip, joining the Flip for Business team. My first responsibility at Flip was to develop components, unique code highlights, the workflow of the money transfer feature, Internationalization, as well as various improvements to internal code development.
In the business team, I started to delve deeper into Frontend Engineering. I initiated unit tests, implemented utility CSS, bundle size optimization, and learned and implemented other best practices for a project using React.
The freedom to explore technology, which is a culture at Flip, accelerated my growth as an Engineer. Of course, the results of these explorations were then shared with others through Tech Talk events. I had the opportunity to share twice in Tech Talk, discussing the new Svelte framework and creating a blog with Next.js and headless CMS.
The Help Center team became my last harbor before resigning from Flip. In this team, I experienced the most rapid development in my career as a Frontend Engineer, because I had the opportunity to encounter cases related to security, package management, application performance optimization, legacy code, userscripts, SEO optimization, A/B Testing, monitoring, and many other things.
Besides the opportunity to grow, being part of the Help Center team was a great blessing for me because I was connected with people who were not only great but also caring. Apart from working together, in this team, we shared and I could be myself.
Some future plans are still being discussed even though I will no longer be at Flip. Hopefully, Allah will allow us to continue to maintain our relationship. Amen.
My decision to leave a stable job at Flip may seem rash (I thought so too). At Flip, besides getting a good work environment, benefits, and compensation that felt quite substantial, it was hard to let go.
However, this decision, which I feel will bring greater good, still had to be made. Thank you, Flip, for 3 years and 10 months full of joy and lessons. Emot sign out.