A week with… Natália Oliveira (and the UK development team)

Life at Backbase
Aug 22, 2017 · 3 min read

Hello! I am Natália and I work as a backend consultant at Backbase for 6 months now, allocated to HSBC UK project based in London. The team and I travel every week from Monday to Thursday and yes, besides work we have some time for fun too.

Our great team is an embedded team to HSBC project, which means that we work as consultants and developers at the same time. We help the HSBC team to develop on CXP platform with the best practices and we develop some features ourselves too as well as we help them to improve some processes.

The team: Rafael Mule, Natália Oliveira, Darlan Alves, Dennis Jamin and Wilco Leenders.

The team!

MondayZzZz…

It is 5:45 AM and it is time to wake up! We have a flight to catch at 8 AMon Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. The flight takes around 50 minutes to London City Airport and as London is 1h less than Amsterdam we are still able to get to the office at 9 am and in time for Stand-up meeting.

Monday is usually the most tiring day of the week, since we wake up early, travel and work until we are able to rest. By the end of the day we walk to the nice hotel we are at(usually CitizenM Bankside), go out for a quick dinner, a drink or go rest for the next day.

Mondayzzz

Tuesday

After a good night of sleep we are ready for another day of work 💪. Waking up and meeting the others downstairs at 8:10 for some nice English breakfast and good mornings. We have already stayed for so long at the hotel that we actually started to feel like “home” and got to know the staff of the hotel. We usually go for lunch around the Tower Bridge area (that is near HSBC office) which has a nice space outside to eat. Afternoon follows with more work and meetings and heading back to the hotel.

The Tower Bridge with some chilling folks

Wednesday

Another day of work full of meetings. The sprint ends and then we have retrospective, planning and kick-off meetings for the next sprint. After work we went to a pub to celebrate our good results and also to have a little bit of fun that continues with drinks at the hotel lounge area. 🍻

Fun & Beers

ThursdaYESSSSS

Thursday is our last day of the week working at the client’s office. Time to pack our bags and get everything ready to go back to Amsterdam. The day follows with works and meetings until 4 pm, when we head to the airport again to go back to lovely Amsterdam.

✈️ ✈️ ✈️

Friyay!

TGIF! We are back home and on Friday’s. We usually work from Amsterdam office. It is time to see all our colleagues back again and get updates from what is happening on SWAT Tribe at out Stand-up meetings. Then we get to chill, hang out with friends/colleagues and enjoy the weekend. Next week we are going back to London again!

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Backbase is a global fintech company creating the best digital banking solutions on the planet. We are a young-spirited, diverse (45+ nationalities), fast-growing and leading company in our niche. We use Medium to provide backstage access to daily life at Backbase

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