Meetings with Wojtek Ptak

2023-01-05 Is Revolut OK?

Revolut is different from other companies.
Meetings are structurised and have to have outcomes.
Many deployments per day.

How Revolut is working?

Kafka not -> Event Store

Tech:
Postgres everything
25mln clients
10 sysops

JVM
Python

Snapshot Monorepo

Tests:

Time Buffers for Programmers.

How much time?

Product & Technology:

Team:
Around 10 - 16 people that are making team autonomic

Line Manager: Report & Products & Roadmap & KPIs

Functional Manager: Same/Higher Seniority different Tenure
Growth and Performance Review
Prolly Lead Engineer = Functional Manager

Engineer -> Lead Engineer -> Head of Engineering -> CTO
Product Owner -> Head Of Product -> Head Of Department -> CEO
Team Work!

Lead Engineer expectations:

Revolut is for ambitious people.
There may be a lot of work.
Oh noes.

You in Revolut?
You can deliver!

Experimenting?

There are many playbooks in Revolut.
It is still a startup.

Money is not a problem.

You won't grow in a great stack.
You introduce? You take responsibility.

Overtime. Happens :(.
You should work smart to minimize time.

Lead+ should understand how to work.

You should have boundaries when working with Revolut.
There is no circuit breakers for overworking.

As a startup there may be a lot of code debt.

Departaments:

Retail
- Lifestyle - all things money in Revolut - Hotels etc a'la Airbnb
- Invest - Crypto and Commodities
- Cards -
- Transactions -
Business (DDD!)
- Onboarding
- Cards as API
- Account Transfers
- Plans & Purchasing
Crypto
Core
- Ledger
- Event Store
- Core Identity
- Core Pricing