Over the past 14 years, Romain has focussed on Android development, contributing to exciting apps like Deliveroo, Yammer, Swile, Blablacar, and Songkick. Today, he works as an Android full-stack engineer at Monzo on the Under 16s product. When he is not being picky while reviewing pull requests, he is passionate about home automation, gardening, running and reading.
Romain Piel
Android Developer @ Monzo
Effective collaboration with backend engineers
As app developers, part of our daily job is to collaborate with backend engineers. The quality of this interaction will depend on the company culture, the team culture and how we approach it.
It’s easy to fall into the mindset of thinking:
- “I don’t write the API, I consume it”.
- “If it’s broken, it’s not my fault as it’s backend driven”
- “The backend is a complete black box to me”
But it doesn’t have to be this way. This session will explore behaviours, processes and tools we can adopt to improve team collaboration and eventually build better products.