Grailed

Our engineering team is organized into many cross-functional squads. Each squad is addressing a business goal such as converting new traffic into active users.

Squads are composed of engineers, product managers, designers, and employees from other functions such as analytics or support. The goal is for every squad to have all the competencies and resources it needs in order to work autonomously and be set up for success.

Engineers typically work with a designer and any other interested parties to spec a feature, then work on the feature individually or via pairing. We use Pull Requests on Github to review one another's work and ensure that all test suites pass. Engineers are empowered to push code to production, which we often do multiple times a day.

We have an emotionally intelligent, support, collaborative, fun team and don't take ourselves too seriously.

We have the luxury of needing to scale our infrastructure to support the growth of the platform. For example, our userbase is large enough that we were required to develop strategies to notify them all, via push notifications, in a way that doesn't result in us DDoSing ourselves.

We've also grown organically without many table-stakes e-commerce features. There are a ton of amazing product initiatives we'll be building this year in next. More details below!