Enginears

Simon Perryman joins us as an Ex-Amazonian/Twitch head of Engineering. - Discussing the challenges of hiring in the US and what to look out for. - Hiring criteria for software engineers in Amazon / Twitch - Software Engineering culture in San Francisco - A seriously competitive counter-offer of up to $500k The company Simon's advising: https://makalive.notion.site/Join-the-team-5fe35aa33ca344e3985...

- The journey of building Multiverse since 2016 with Elixir. - Why Elixir is so powerful and pragmatic. - WhatsApp scaling to billions of messages with 50 engineers using Elixir. - Moving from Elm to Liveview. Chris Gregori: Website & Blog: https://www.chriis.dev/ Newsletter: https://chrisgregori.substack.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/codestirring  Multiverse links:  Website: https://www....

“Shaping the future of travel” - Help us understand what that statement really means to Duffel and the mission? - Talk us through the bureaucracy, archaic travel systems and how Duffel creates technological value for its users? - “We’re really open about what we do” – Help us understand this? - We’ve started to rebuild the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry. Layer by layer, piece by...

- Guiding us through some of Kroo’s features and how you’re enabling social banking? - Basic steps and key achievements to gaining a UK banking licence - What are the challenges for Neobanks / Digital banks in gaining a license? - What are the key technical challenges to gaining a banking license? - Can you talk us through your technical stack and why Clojure? Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check...

Bitvavo have made a real name for themselves in the last 4 years since starting in Summer 2018 and now recognised in the top 5 crypto exchanges in Europe and an unbelievable achievement being bootstrapped and self-funded. They have seen rapid customer uptake down to everything from simplistic UI, KYC and slick authentication all the way through to build scalable architectures and reliable infrastr...

LandTech are the UK’s fastest growing PropTech company, who help offer property developers insight through their products; LandInsight, LandEnhance and LandFund, we focused on Data Engineering challenges around configuring unstructured datasets, this included - - Modelling data - Scaling datasets and the importance of platform engineering within this - Ways to keep data formatting consistent Want...

VP of Engineering at Mambu, who are an API first, Cloud native Banking platform - their customers include; N26, Tide and New10 and today we’ll be talking about cloud interoperability. - The cloud technologies that Mambu are using and why is it important to use varied cloud services and not just one? AWS to multi cloud. - Challenges with using 3 cloud providers - Interoperability between the three...

Adyen are Europe’s largest FinTech processing millions of transactions daily for the worlds most recognisable brands; Uber, Spotify, McDonalds and others. Efe joined us from the POS & Dev Enablement team to share how Adyen are passionate about being pragmatic when it comes to Engineering. By building their own on-premise infrastructure with 12 data centres they’ve managed to stay 100% in contr...

Onto speak to us about their mission / problem domain? What Onto and Ben are learning about the EV world and especially a customer mindset to Subscriptions What problems are and aren’t you trying to solve? Understanding the Physical aspects + Software aspects to the business. Challenges of managing physical vehicles and managing that from a tech perspective – hardware/software integration. Prefer...

Understanding Lune’s API and tools make it very easy to integrate emissions calculation and offsetting into every customer experience. What does our API enable? A few examples: - What does being ‘API first’ mean? - API Lifecycle v Software engineering lifecycle - How does being an ‘API first company’ affect the engineering approach?  - Correctness - Ts-result - Rust Prefer to watch your podcasts? ...

Helping companies understand the value of real-time data. Where’s the lack of value now and how does that impact customers? What are the engineering challenges with “real-time data” and delivering that to customers? Series A funding coming in at $37M – from a CEO raising Series A Understanding what the process of a tech company raising cash looks like and what you plan to do with it? Why? Prefer t...

- Lemonade hit 1 million customers faster than Netflix and Spotify. - Certified B-Corp delivering social impact - Automating a whole customer journey from sign-up / authentication through to speed and accuracy of quotes and pay-outs! - Why Data is so key to your business and how you can make better informed decisions - Lemonade’s Makers programme and introducing engineers into the business. Prefer...

- An intro in to Nate and the business - Shifting from a B2B focus into a B2C platform and also a soft launch in the USA. - We discussed four key components that make up Nate – Consumer, Automation, Partnership and Platform. - Migration to Kubernetes - Engineering Culture – Nate Company Values, fostering a culture free from judgement/hierarchical status to empower innovation, along with “Personal...

- Challenges for building a multi-regional payment architecture. - Compliance and Regulatory challenges that come with cross-border payments. - Changes in customer / employee habits to accessing money. - Leveraging their tech stack and dealing with scale and resiliency. Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.l...

Engineering landscape and the engineering culture TravelPerk are fostering - Industry engineering hiring trends - Understanding TravelPerk's talent acquisition mindset - How are you working on retention and growth of people? - How do you invest in engineering? - The route to VP of Engineering. - Challenges, failures / learnings. Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit....

We discuss Chris, Pete, and Stephen’s work at Monzo open-sourcing their incident software, and how they decide to move into starting their own company. - What is incident management? - Cost of an unclear incident process. - Building a new incident process. - What problems are the team trying to solve and why? - A fascinating description of the technology and people risks in your business and the i...

Stream are the #1 chat API for custom messaging apps and started off building activity feeds and slowly started introducing chat messaging API’s which feeds large-volumes of their traffic. Jeroen and Alexei took us on a journey to understand some of the challenges around latency, scalability and mobile performance. A great discussion which feeds into end-to-end challenges of the platform and why t...

- Intro into Roberto, Algolia and the core business. - Unpacking the search and recommendation world. - Looking through the lens of a consumer on search platforms and UI challenges - Re-usability of services across infrastructure. - Architecture that sits underneath large-scale systems. Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter...

We start off by learning more about Pleo and a deep dive into some of their products – Fetch, Virtual Cards, Assurance etc. We’re then uncovering gems around technology: - Why Data is imperative to Pleo - The use of Data Mesh - Cloud-native approaches - Technical Debt - Infrastructure-as-a-Service Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us...

- Discussed integrating 3 products into Momentive.ai/Getfeedback - Discussing Customer Experience and up to 700M requests in a day! - Unlocking business value with champions, guilds and event-driven architectures and streams - Discussing React components on CDN’s Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJ...

Who are Primer? We broke down Primer’s ethos to build a product? “The best DX is no DX”. We broke down Primer’s approach to frontend architectures and moving towards a backend-driven UI. Primer are hiring! Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube:...

In this episode: - Breaking down the accounting part of the business and the journey from 2016 to 2020 - In 2020, Spendesk were approved their banking licence and decided to build their own bank to unlock value for customers - Macro-services vs Micro-services - Why latency and tech/product resiliency is so important in banking? - Training engineers to think in events Prefer to watch your podcasts?...

Dott are a European micro-mobility operator specialising in e-scooters & e-bikes. We talked to Evan about their Rider Gateway, Scaling Mobile Applications, Utilising Data at Dott. Careers - https://ridedott.com/careers Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check u...

WeTransfer help thousands securely share and download files in seconds. Antoine is a Technical Lead at WeTransfer, we talked about; introducing SWIFT into their Collect app and their launch of the new WeTransfer file sharing app. Check out WeTransfer at: https://wetransfer.com/ Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http...

TicketSwap are an e-ticket marketplace, offering a safe way to sell second hand tickets. We talk about; domain driven design, technical hiring and TicketSwap’s products. Pascals Blog - https://www.pascaldevink.nl/ DDD Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Implementing-Domain-Driven-Design-Vaughn-Vernon/dp/0321834577 Nick Tune’s Blog - https://medium.com/nick-tune-tech-strategy-blog/turning-domain-discov...