Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
186 episodes
Season 1


- 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
35min | Published on June 15, 2022


- 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
41min | Published on June 13, 2022


- 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on May 19, 2022


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 insights Incident can give you.- The future of observability?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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
39min | Published on May 6, 2022


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 they are critical to one another, especially in an API first product.- We discuss vertical v horizontal scaling through different API/chat activities.- Building 3 SDK’s for mobile and importance of CX.Jeroen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leenarts/Alexei: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexei-kozlenok-8072b21/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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on May 6, 2022


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.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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
48min | Published on May 6, 2022


- 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 at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
53min | Published on March 23, 2022


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-ServicePrefer 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
51min | Published on March 9, 2022


- 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’sPrefer 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
47min | Published on February 23, 2022


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/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on February 16, 2022
Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
186 episodes
Season 1


- 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
35min | Published on June 15, 2022


- 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
41min | Published on June 13, 2022


- 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on May 19, 2022


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 insights Incident can give you.- The future of observability?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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
39min | Published on May 6, 2022


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 they are critical to one another, especially in an API first product.- We discuss vertical v horizontal scaling through different API/chat activities.- Building 3 SDK’s for mobile and importance of CX.Jeroen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leenarts/Alexei: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexei-kozlenok-8072b21/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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on May 6, 2022


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.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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
48min | Published on May 6, 2022


- 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 at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
53min | Published on March 23, 2022


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-ServicePrefer 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
51min | Published on March 9, 2022


- 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’sPrefer 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
47min | Published on February 23, 2022


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/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on February 16, 2022