Responsibilities
- Directs product architecture and design initiatives
- Works with product managers and stakeholders to shape cross-portfolio strategy
- Participates in and facilitates daily standups across local and remote teams
- Engages in retrospectives, promoting empathetic and constructive feedback
- Implements and champions CI/CD pipelines and related engineering practices
- Supports knowledge-sharing activities to strengthen organizational expertise
- Provides technical leadership by guiding technology choices and resolving team-level technical issues
- Mentors teams in adopting paired programming and test-driven development methods
- Demonstrates hands-on leadership by actively contributing to development tasks
- Collaborates in planning sessions and helps integrate technical insights into product backlogs
Responsibilities
- Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product
- Collaborates on strategy across product portfolios in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
- Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
- Leads and participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices and advocates for a strong culture through personal behavior and coaching of all lab roles.
- Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the SquareTrade/Allstate engineering community
- Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team
- Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
- Acts as a player coach in leading by example in day to day execution of the build out of technical product capabilities
- Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
