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We discussed the journey from two founders, finding a need for cross-border / currency payments and how they built a full-blown business that has 16 million customers.- Building cloud native applications and disrupting financial services regulation.- The journey from on-premise to cloud at Wise and challenges that date back to the 1980’s!- Navigating challenges of card issuing in a cloud native environment – encryption, cryptography etc.- Product - Engineering interviewsPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

Who are Lepaya and what’s their global mission?- Solving Complex B2B integrations and the scale/localisation/personalisation impact!- The use of AI and ChatGPT to self-learn.- As a scale-up – the power of EVP is so important and here’s why!Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

A follow on from our podcast with Picnic in 2020 discussing robotizing a warehouse and how they have scaled up to 100k orders and 1M items to choose from since their release of their automated warehouse in 2022.- How Picnic have modernised their tech stack - the trade-offs with updating technology vs. sticking with what you’ve got?- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/ - It aims to improve code quality, focussing on maintainability, consistency and avoidance of common pitfalls.- €600M investment from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and how this supercharges Picnic’s growth.- Building and launching a technology academy and integrating people into team’s with mentorship.- Our open tech roles: https://picnic.app/careers/teams/technology-and-engineering- Engineering blog: https://blog.picnic.nl/- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

- Ledger’s journey since 2014 securing crypto.- Introducing Ledger Nano in 2016- “Not your keys, not your coins” and self-custody- Security and Engineering challenges in Web3- Hiring across many product and services domainsPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

- Kicking off with the intro into methods of taking software into production previously.- What is Platform Engineering and Developer Tooling?- Help us run through the evolution of CI/CD and Monzo’s adoption- Automated testing- Automated detection/tooling. 200+ engineers in Monzo constantly releasing software every single day – a very important part of the Banking ecosystem.- Run us through the change approval board and how it’s automated;- Objective vs Subjective- Choice of programming languages to help structure software and systems.- Tooling for micro-services Suhail LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhailpatel/Monzo blog: www.monzo.com/blogDev tooling: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/m... 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: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

Introduction into Developer Advocate roleUnderstanding Elastic’s product line   - Enterprise Search   - Observability   - SecurityJourney of Elastic into an Enterprise product   - Elasticsearch / practical examples      - Full-text search      - Querying      - Tokenisers      - Search as you type      - Reverse querying (percolators)Observability   - Request tracing   - Track usage volume, and integrate anomaly detection to find patterns and trends   - Log browsing and searching   - Error stack traces   - RUM browser and user behaviour informationPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

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 $500kThe company Simon's advising:https://makalive.notion.site/Join-the-team-5fe35aa33ca344e3985070d680585628Simon's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonperryman/Simon's coaching site:https://www.sgpadvisors.one/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/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

- 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.multiverse.io Multiverse Jobs: https://www.multiverse.io/en-GB/careers Blog: https://blog.multiverse.ioPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

- 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 us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

“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 piece“ - Help us understand some of Duffel’s engineering challenges?- Why Elixir and why does it work for you?- Talk to us about your recruitment process and what you’re hiring for at the moment?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/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

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 control of their availability performance.Adyen Careers:https://careers.adyen.com/career-types/techEngineering Principles:- We solve live merchant problems, before working on future features.- We design for 20x.- Think like the merchant and go meet them.- Push early, pull often.- We build frameworks when we have at least three use cases.- We are all designers, architects, coders, testers, security officers and on-call engineers.- We all make mistakes, we seek help and share as soon as we find out.- Code and test beyond the happy flow, think about failure scenarios and security.- A product is only finished when it has a face and is validated with a live customer.- You own when, where, and how your code goes live.- Your code should be understandable at 4am under stress.- We embrace new technology when it has clear benefits.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/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

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 consistentWant to see more from LandTech? Check out their website: Land.TechPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

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 infrastructures.- The role of Guy, CTO at Bitvavo over the past 2 years and the next 2 years and the changes in the crypto exchange space.- The need to re-design the platform to allow for scalability.- Chrone Architectures and introduction of Kubernetes- Making the right people and technology choices- How Banks and Blockchain can learn from one anotherPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

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 and why this is so key to success- Achieving a single deployment pattern rather than one per cloud service? Containerisation using Docker / KubernetesPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

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- RustPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

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 SubscriptionsWhat 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 to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

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 AUnderstanding what the process of a tech company raising cash looks like and what you plan to do with it? Why?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/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

- 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 to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

- 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 Growth Fridays” and how they spin off into real-world developing projects.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/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio

- 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.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio