Replit — Replit Empowers Synctera to Find Hidden Talent

Replit — Replit Empowers Synctera to Find Hidden Talent Replit Empowers Synctera to Find Hidden Talent Sun, May 2, 2021 Updated at: Fri, Oct 6, 2023 Obaida Albaroudi Patrick Coleman Talent is one of the most important factors in the success of a new business, and Synctera has been using Replit to run a technical interview process that effectively uncovers the best engineers, whether they have a stellar resume or a nontraditional background. Synctera is a new startup that connects FinTech companies to community banks. When a company wants to offer a new financial product, like a debit card or loan, to their customers, Synctera's marketplace and APIs make it easy for them to find the right bank with the right offering. As a result, Synctera's customers can move faster and build better products. Synctera engineer Based on this vision, Synctera raised a $12 million dollar seed round in December 2020 from high profile investors, including the CEOs of Plaid, Affirm, and Carta. Now they're expanding (planning to go from 30 to 120 people) and already seeing strong early growth. We spoke to Kris Hansen, Synctera CTO, about how he's using Replit to build a world class engineering team. Kris Hansen, Synctera CTO First Kris told us about some of the unique engineering challenges at Synctera. Security is always priority number one in banking & finance, so their systems must be safe and secure. Because of the volume of transactions on their multi-tenant platform and through their APIs, everything must be built to scale. And they must balance industry-specific requirements like ledgering while still presenting a "beautiful and useful UI" to their customers. Kris, like many other engineering leaders, does not find the "old school" algorithm and data structure questions valuable for hiring. For him, the technical challenge is not a basic hurdle but rather a way to understand a candidate's potential. He prefers to give challenges that let candidates solve real problem