Engineering Leaders - What's the Size of the Ork Right Now?

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Mof is a start-up company based in San Francisco. It's hiring technical leadership to make sure it doesn't fall back into the "harcourto" problem of building products and not solving problems for customers. Founder says that engineering leaders need to focus on shipping product, rather than how fast they can do it.

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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