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February 17, 2022

Lessons from a serial team-builder: How to onboard remote developers

Startups are increasingly hiring remote developers. Nuri's Vidya Mani explains how to make sure they feel like part of your company


Vidya Mani

Vidya Mani has worked at many well-known companies in senior engineering roles building top-class teams around her: she was at software consultancy Thoughtworks, PayPal’s Braintree and blockchain payments solution Ripple. She is now the chief technology officer of cryptocurrency fintech Nuri where she is, once again, growing a team. But this time, she’s doing it remotely — and speedily. Our Startup Life newsletter chatted to her about how to onboard remote engineers. 

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Anisah Osman Britton is coauthor of Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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