Engineering Culture by InfoQ Building Composable Teams: Moving Beyond Rigid Organizational Structures
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Oct 17, 2025 In this discussion, Luv Kapur, a staff engineering lead at Bit with a focus on composable platforms, shares insights on building flexible team structures. He emphasizes the importance of trust and transparency in fostering high-performing teams. Luv explores what composability means for organizations and how to create clearer, reusable capabilities. He also introduces the concept of an API-first approach for teams, helping engineers adapt and grow through fluid structures that promote skill development and collaboration across teams.
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Clarity Rebuilds Trust
- Trust erodes when there is a lack of clarity about decisions and direction.
- Transparency about why choices were made reduces uncertainty and rebuilds trust.
Teams As Composable Capabilities
- Composability applied to teams reduces rigid headcount bottlenecks and increases organizational agility.
- Treating teams as composable capabilities enables fluid movement of people like liquidity in portfolios.
Composability Sparked By Platform Work
- Luv's interest in composability grew while leading platform teams serving internal developers.
- Serving developer customers taught him to design services that others can build on.