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We have a flat engineering team. Our engineers work without close technical supervision but collaborate amongst each other frequently. Speed and tight feedback loops are most important to us, so we work in one-week cycles. Each cycle begins with a sprint planning meeting to discuss time estimates for new features. Throughout the development cycle, engineers work with product managers and designers to resolve unexpected ambiguities and opportunities. Along with a peer, engineers typically take part in testing their own work. We use pull requests on GitHub to conduct code reviews. Engineers push code to production between once and several times per week depending on the size and complexity of the feature set.

To be successful, we need to be experts at transferring data between the physical and digital layers of the company. - How do we collect analytics from stores using technologies like computer vision and RF sniffing? - How do we make that information actionable for consumer brands? - How do we build tools that enable free communication between consumer brands and retail staff? - How do we link a showroom experience from a brick-and-mortar location to an online sale?

Increasingly, we are helping Fortune 500 retailers transform their businesses around Retail-as-a-Service. - How do we build a backend that can integrate with legacy systems at a variety of large retailers, without compromising the user experience?