• Product Management - enforced use of BDD (Behavior-driven development) to align business needs to the deliverables of the development teams
• Cloud Services - improved the reliability of the platform through disaster recovery implementation and general improvements. AWS-based cloud-native product development
• Platform Modernization - service mesh architecture adoption across many products. Backend modernization based on the adoption of new tech stack and patterns, improving performance
• Product Engineering & Development

  - rearchitected and delivered major releases of the platform, enhancing its core functionality

• DevOps, updated the tech stack, monitoring, and observability, and configured ecosystems of applications to fit a new service mesh architecture

• Data Modernization & Engineering - enabled the externalization of data through APIs while keeping foundational elements of the architecture scalable enough to meet planned demand.

• Quality Engineering - ensured the quality and speed of all development throughout the process

• Digital Experience, applied service design techniques to identify improvement opportunities in search features of a consumer-facing product
  
  
  

APIs and Databases run on AWS. The team uses most AWS native and managed services for development and DevOps activities:

• Services: AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon EC2, Amazon EC2, Amazon SQS, Amazon MQ, Amazon Fargate, Amazon EKS, and Amazon Lambda.
• DevOps: Amazon CloudWatch
• Networking: Amazon Route53, and Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
• Security: Security Groups and AWS IAM

Encora’s engineers use Jenkins, Artifactory (hosted on AWS), and Spinnaker for CI/CD and Terraform for IaC.