ScalerPod #02 - Engineering Management and Scaling Teams ft. Jitendra Agrawal (Global CTO, CARS24, ex-VP Hotstar)

Welcome to the SCALER Pod series! In this first episode, we have Arnav Gupta (Product & Strategy, SCALER) in conversation with Jitendra Agrawal, Global CTO, CARS24. They discuss about engineering management, scaling up of engineering teams and importance of mobile development.

About Jitendra Agrawal   Jitendra is currently the Global CTO of CARS24 expanding the tech team that works on CARS24's international products. He has spent a significant about of time in engineering leadership roles previously too, including being CTO of SpringBoard and LendingKart as well has being VP of Engineering at HotStar.   

Timelines  

 00:00 Teaser 

 01:30 Introduction  

02:00 Day in the life of a CTO 

 05:30 Tech Team Structure of different sized companies 

 08:00 Working on B2B vs B2C tech 

 11:00 Tech Teams communicating with Business/Products 

 12:30 Jiten's career story so far 

17:00 Key ingredients to hire and retain a great tech team 

23:00 Career choices for mid-senior engineers 

 28:00 Being 'language-specific' in hiring 

 35:00 Importance of Mobile Engineering