When I first joined N26, I wrote about how we have Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD), 2 days every 6 weeks where people in Product & Tech down tools. During GSDD people choose where they spend their time versus working on a team priority. For a lot of people in…

In this interview, I sat down with Gráinne, a Data Scientist at N26, to explore a bit more about her field, and how the data team works. Data Science hasn’t played a strong part in my history in tech so was fascinated to hear some of results. …

The Technical Program Manager (TPMs) is newer to our industry. You don’t read about it this in many agile teams yet many larger organisations have this role. In this interview, you’ll learn more about why the role exists, what some of the common focuses are and learn more about one…

Alistair Cockburn, agile manifesto signatory and author of Agile Software Development (2002) wrote about the “bandwidth” of different communication styles. Distributed development forces modes where there is less “bandwidth” and is inevitable in today’s age of more connected and more distributed workplaces. At N26, we’ve tried to avoid distributing work…

A few weeks ago, I published an article about how we grew Product & Tech (P&T) at N26 during hypergrowth. I introduced the idea of a Target Operating Model (TOM). The first article focused on the why and what of this tool. …

In Part 1 of this interview, we discovered Lucia Payo’s (LP) background, found out more about her personal journey at N26 and learned more about the Android team. In this part we’ll focus on uncovering her technical leadership journey. PK: We’ve talked about the Android team. Let’s talk about your…

A few weeks back, I spent time with Lucia Payo (LP), our Lead Android Engineer. We spoke on so many interesting topics that I’ll split this across two articles. In Part 1 (this article), we’ll learn more about Lucia’s background, her journey at N26 and the android team. …

Our Android team is growing rapidly. As a company experiences hypergrowth, processes and structures break. I find it fascinating to see how teams learn and improve in this environment. In this interview, find out how our Android team grew and scaled. …

N26 is the mobile bank the world loves to use. Late last year, we launched one of our most successful products, Spaces. This product really demonstrates how we apply our company value of Simplicity to helping people interact with their finances in a much simpler way. …