• spent time working with a Product Manager to understand requirements for a new feature • building features using popular technologies including but not limited to: Java, React, SQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch • improve architectural strategy of a front-end or backend area of the product to meet higher velocity needs created by our growing customer base • reviewed code submitted by other software engineers, and submitted your own code for review as part of our pull-request deployment process • spent time meeting with a Product Designer to explain technical constraints for a specific feature • collaborating with design and product teams to understand and document feature requirements • written clear, concise technical documentation to accompany your code • spent time testing out a new technology or taking part in a discussion on ways to improve our code base and engineering practices • nurturing an engineering culture that cares deeply about the quality of the code we write