Staying Connected with Remote Teams with Martin Provencher, Senior Developer Manager at Shopify

Mission COO & Co-founder Gabriel Sundaram catches up with his former Bus.com colleague and friend Martin Provencher, Senior Developer Manager at Shopify. Martin shares his experienced perspective on what he looks for when hiring engineers for his teams, as well as the best strategies he's encountered to keep remote teams feeling connected.

Key Moments:

• The benefits of leading the Ruby on Rails user group (2:09)
• The difference between managing engineering at early stage vs enterprise (5:07)
• Hiring engineers for your stage and culture (7:01)
• The Shopify engineering culture (10:13)
• Managing remote engineering teams (including one of the best exercises he’s seen for remote teams) (14:39)
• Using data to manage engineers (17:09)
• The relationship between product and engineering (24:05)