•Provided technical leadership for a 5-person backend team by managing task assignments and priorities, debating design and architectural decisions, and pair programming with junior engineers.
•Led, designed and drove implementation of a top-requested customization for companies with international employees who wanted to send value-appropriate rewards on a per-country basis and later became the Sales team’s greatest tool for closing new companies.
•Proposed, designed and led the refactor of the user management system to integrate three disparate user creation processes into one integrated approach leading to an improvement in conversion rates due to fewer issues with sign up.
•Addressed low team-morale by establishing retrospective meetings to provide an outlet for suggestions, observations and grievances so that vague tensions could be aired, discussed and translated into actionable tasks resulting in high-engagement conversations and sense of team ownership.