Episode #50
Niilo Säämänen // CTO at Wolt
Niilo Säämänen, CTO of Wolt (best known for their delivery platform) ⚡, shares how he leads an engineering organisation of 40+ autonomous product teams through hyper-growth to serve millions of customers across 23 countries 🚀.
Learn how to structure your team and product across domains, platforms, and countries while putting employee satisfaction at the forefront of your work ⭐. You’re bound to learn a thing or two from his unique approach to building impact-driven tech organisations built on autonomy, ownership and accountability 💪. Listen to find out:
- How to build & maintain a company culture 🤗 in a hyper-growth company
- Why autonomous teams allow you to attract and retain the most talented 🏆 engineers
- How to measure engineering performance (hint: engineer satisfaction is more important than you think)
- Why they use semi-annual tiered team-owned roadmaps at Wolt (and their process ⚙️ for creating them)
Mentioned On Air
- How to Build Impact Driven Tech Organisations - A Series of blog posts written by Niilo Säämänen on Impact Driven Tech Organisations Article
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