# Zooming Out From Engineering

DevFeed: [Zooming Out From Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/zooming-out-from-engineering-27022.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/zooming-out-from-engineering-dc75c1509fa2?source=rss----3650599ae4e2---4>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2019-04-11T17:24:50Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog - Medium](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-medium.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>)

Tags: [advice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advice.md>), [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [communication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communication.md>), [cross-functional-teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cross-functional-teams.md>), [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-mangement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-mangement.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>), [tech-industry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-industry.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

An edited fireside discussion with Square engineering leader Alyssa Henry about leading organizations as they scale. It covers communication, giving employees autonomy, mastery, and purpose, building company culture, and managing cross-functional teams.

## Source excerpt

As originally seen on Greylock Partners' blog, here are some insights on leadership, career development, and building teams at scale that Square's Head of Seller, Alyssa Henry, shared during the 2019 SFELC Summit.Square's Head of Seller & Developer Business Units & Infrastructure Engineering, Alyssa HenryHeads up, we've moved! If you'd like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog Leading an organization of 10 employees is considerably different than leading an organization of 10,000+ employees. As teams increase and communication becomes more challenging, a lot can break down. In this episode of Greymatter, we share a fireside discussion from the 2019 SFELC Summit on building and managing scaling teams. NodeSource VP of Engineering, Chanda Dharap talks with Square's Head of Seller & Developer Business Units & Infrastructure Engineering, Alyssa Henry. Alyssa shares lessons from scaling companies at hyper-scale including Square and AWS, how to bring purpose to your employee's work, and advice for building company culture. Alyssa leads Square's cross functional teams with P&L responsibility and is working to shift Square from an app focused on payment processing to a broad financial services platform and commerce ecosystem. Prior, she led AWS Storage Services including Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon Glacier where she was responsible for software development and operations. Earlier in her career, Alyssa held several roles in program and product management at Microsoft. SFELC is a curated community of 2500+ engineering leaders evolving the way leadership is implemented in the tech industry. Greylock Partners is the VC partner for SFELC, and sponsored the annual SFELC Summit which hosted top industry leaders to share management best practices and leadership advice. Below is an edited transcript of key points from Dan and Aditya's fireside discussion. https://medium.c