Introducing ParkMobile Labs
Two of ParkMobile’s Core Values are “Support our Community” and “Play Well with Others.” In the spirit of those values, we’re proud to present ParkMobile Labs, our employee-driven blog! We want to...
View ArticlePro Tips for a Mobile Product Manager – Part 1 of 2
Here is one of the many seemingly nonsensical sentences you may utter when you are a Mobile Product Manager: “It’s 9 o’clock at night. What are you still working on?” “I’m trying to figure out the...
View ArticleBe Better Together with Pair Design
At ParkMobile, our product design team loves to collaborate. It helps us create better experiences for our users and become smarter, happier individuals. And back in March, we decided to do a bit of...
View ArticleUsing RabbitMQ Direct Reply-To with Golang
Overview RabbitMQ’s Direct Reply-to feature allows RPC (request/reply) clients to avoid declaring a response queue per request. The feature is extremely powerful because it allows the decoupling...
View ArticleIntroducing Core UI, ParkMobile’s React Component Library
In recent years, ParkMobile’s web efforts have grown from a simple marketing site to an entire product suite, including dozens of white-label applications. This growth has been exciting, but it’s also...
View ArticleBeing *Responsible* as a Product Manager
The words we choose matter a lot to people around us. “I’m fine” is ambiguous. “I’m happy” is clear. “I’m sad” is vulnerable and open. As Product Managers –and for people in any leadership position,...
View ArticleDesigning Our Engineering Career Framework
In 2019, we set out to define what it meant to be an engineer at ParkMobile. We wanted all current and future engineers to understand that they could learn and grow with us. This should be regardless...
View ArticlePro Tips for a Mobile Product Manager – Part 2 of 2
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed Part 1, which gave three big tips for new Mobile Product Managers. If you haven’t read it yet, I strongly urge you to check it out! Without further ado, let’s jump into...
View ArticleAvailability Geohash Caching Strategy
Introduction As a nationwide app and platform, ParkMobile handles a lot of location-based searching. Our applications and services need the ability to quickly look up and display location-based...
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