The new engineering skill no one was trained for

In this episode of Distributed, Jack Hannah speaks with Scott Jones, Head of Engineering for Service Delivery at Stash, about building complex systems in a remote-first environment and why real-time collaboration matters more than ever.
Scott reflects on helping build Stash’s core banking platform in just one year, breaking down what building a bank actually means from an engineering perspective. He explains how the work was structured across teams, why individual heroics fall apart at scale, and how frequent synchronous coordination helped the team move fast without breaking things.
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