I really enjoyed this discussion. I hope you find some useful bits for yourself as well. Chapters are manually annotated by me for you to be able to navigate and jump around. Thanks for listening to Map for Engineers!
Available as video on YouTube as well:
00:00:00 - Start
00:01:01 - Dmytro's background
00:13:50 - Early days of finance team in Wise
00:19:36 - Becoming lead in the finance team
00:21:19 - Squad o fteams, tribe of squads: splitting finance into subdomains
00:27:42 - Conway law: team splits reflecting architecture
00:32:56 - Event-driven architecture
00:34:51 - Context on what finance team is doing
00:36:06 - Batch approach vs real-time financials
00:39:56 - Error handling, dead letter queues
00:41:44 - Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, in-house tools
00:49:32 - Assembling the right team: finding people who care
00:52:42 - DB Skills. Postgres. Modularization. Couplings
00:57:24 - Staff+ engineering path
01:03:32 - Engineering principles in finance. Compliance, auditing
01:09:22 - Learning domain where you work
01:11:31 - Testing in finance
01:27:00 - Growing in your career: find your path, learn what interests you
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