Built to Scale: Creating an All-Star Engineering Team that Can Deliver and Maintain Hyper Growth

Engineering leaders at high growth startups operate at a unique intersection within the company. Their teams are tasked with ensuring the product can support customers today, tomorrow, and years from now – all while ensuring that they’re rapidly scaling in a way that aligns with long-term strategic business goals. When Julia Grace, Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, joined Slack 3 years ago, the company had fewer than 100 engineers. It’s now at more than 400, and her own team grew from 10 to 80 people in 2 years. Julia shares how she scaled the engineering team behind the fastest growing B2B app of all time, and the practical lessons that help ensure the trajectory is maintained during hyper growth. -- In 2018, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 3,100 startups, 1,800 investors and 650 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to celebrate on Dec 3-5, 2018 with hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush 2018 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.