Improving data accessibility and ensuring that data is not just available but also comprehensible to every team member is a challenge many companies can relate to. During the PayFit Hackathon in June 2023, we embarked on a journey
Think of technical architecture as a tree. The roots represent the existing systems; they’re deep, established and provide foundations. But to grow and stay vibrant, the tree must constantly solidify its foundations, sprout new branches, adapting and
Planting the Seed The Domain-Driven Design (DDD) journey at PayFit started in 2021, more than 2 years ago with a book club, originally composed of engineers (mostly individual contributors and a few managers). We met bi-weekly to learn
At PayFit, we believe in using tools that improve the developer experience of our ICs, favoring technologies that reduce time to deliver new features or bugfixes, and not get bogged down in configuration and setup intricacies. On the
Continuing on a trend of PayFiters contributing to podcast, today Hugo Venturini, one of our Engineering Directors, answered questions from host Bruno Soulez for the If This Then Dev podast. The topic was on tech recruitment: Recruitment is
Being a software engineer for several years now, I have observed that the performance testing phase of a project is often neglected, sometimes not even considered. When we develop a new feature, our mind is naturally focused on
I started my position as an engineering manager at PayFit a year ago. Before that, I used to juggle between a manager role and a tech lead role in a small startup, a position where I learnt and
At PayFit, Product teams are divided into tribes and squads (comparable to the Spotify model). While each of them strives to be autonomous, they are backed up by the developer experience (DevXP) team. The DevXP team provides a
