Today I am joined by Ayomide of Trove Finance. He is a YouTuber, software engineer and the Head of engineering at Trove Finance. Trove Finance helps you invest in companies from across the world, they democratise software stocks.  In this talk, Ayomide talks about what he looks out for when employing engineers into his company and what startups should look out for when employing software engineers into their team ultimately.

1. Who Ayomide is? 1:47

2. How Ayomide got into coding and engineering? 2:44

3. What built his engineering experience 4:42

4. Testing how innovative your problem-solving skills are 7:20

5. the one engineer Ayomide hired that was a big mistake 12:09

6. In building an engineering team for a startup, what's the best way to hire a good team? 14:30

7. How the 'passion' trait is important for an engineer to have about a product in the startup? 16:41

8. How stability and focus are needed for the founder and the engineer to be able to build what is needed? 20:11

9. As a founder you have to know when to stop and create a road map for your product and team 24:04

10. The checklist Ayomide uses to employ a software engineer 25:25

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We talked about his journey being an iOS developer and then he gave rich insights and a unique perspective on what it takes to build a solid, agile, and continual engineering team. 

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Cheat Sheet

0:00-1:32- Meet Ayodeji

1:33-3:36- More about Ayodeji and his work experience

3:37-5:40- What does it feel like working on a team with millions of users interfering with the product?

6:02-9:59- From the team perspective, what is important when a startup is trying to set up their engineering team into something that is scalable?

10:46-14:49- In the area of the volatility of talent, what can startups do to maintain stability?

14:54-19:16- If you are going to recruit a junior engineer, what will you be looking out for?

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