Dependency Management

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There is a certain size where your entire role as an engineering leader unfortunately becomes dependency management. If each one of those has to talk to ten, 15, 30 other services, it's a nightmare. Imagine getting any single change through to that guarantee. And so i think we can continue to use, to what jason said, some of these computer science concepts and paradimes,. We're really just talking about automation.

Co-Founder and CEO of Moov Financial, Wade Arnold, has had a hell of a journey as a software engineering leader. He joins us on the podcast to chat about building companies, attracting great software engineering talent, and increasing velocity as you scale.

Key takeaways:

Software engineers love working in an environment where their craft shines. If you manage to provide this, you will have no issues growing your team.
Finding technical engineering leaders is easy. You want to find technical engineering leaders who know how to create the right environment for their teams to thrive.
Don't get religious about your engineering tools and processes. What matters is getting things in front of the customer, and the tools you use to get there should simply facilitate that.

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