The software engineering team has two main product areas of focus: its eCommerce platform and its operational services.

The eCommerce platform is mostly built around the Django framework with a React front-end. Engineering squads focus on specific areas of responsibility relating to customer experience, for example, product discovery, customer growth, and checkout.

These squads are cross-functional, work full stack and collaborate on the same codebase, delivering to production daily.

On the operational services side, the squads work with a number of different technologies to integrate third party providers into business processes and are heavily involved with delivering internal data services and business intelligence. Many of the integrations in this space are built with .NET and deployed as microservices.

Both teams are steadily converging on a shared set of tools, practices, and ways of working. Continuous delivery, testing and automated deployments into AWS are the norm for applications across the team. Although the team doesn’t follow a strict TDD workflow, test coverage and code quality on the team’s eCommerce platform is high and maintained. Engineers typically work independently, pulling in colleagues to pair as needed.

The team has retained its startup culture with minimal hierarchy, low comms overhead, and a fast pace, collaborating over Jira, Slack, and Zendesk to get work done.

Technical and product decisions happen as part of a two-way dialogue between leadership and software engineers, rather than flowing from the top-down. The team's engineering leaders are highly approachable, available and work in an embedded way within the software engineering team. Even the company’s CTO, Goran is frequently on the floor among the engineering team discussing various initiatives and contributing (sometimes silly 🤣) ideas.

With frequent tech talks, engineering guilds and a positive reception to new ideas, the team is constantly looking to improve its engineering practices and believes that “There’s always a better way”. For example, the team is currently spearheading the adoption of a new design language and looking to build out an improved UI component library.

If you’re energetic, self-driven, and comfortable in an environment of change and continuous improvement, you’ll enjoy being part of a Kogan.com team known for being willing to challenge the status quo. Check out the team's approach to supporting legacy browsers including the world's first Internet Explorer 7 Tax which went viral across major news outlets, Twitter, and Hacker News!

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