Our Teams

At Zumba™, our technology department is broken into the following sections:

UI/UX: User interface and experience team, responsible with how our customers interact with the applications.
Operations: Operations team handles the infrastructure that hosts our applications.
QA: Quality Assurance team automates synthetic tests to ensure that all critical parts of the application are functioning as expected.
BI: Business Intelligence team automates capturing key metrics to aid the rest of the business in making decisions.
Product Management: The PM team are stakeholders of the products we ship and ensure the project requirements match business expectations.
Engineering: Engineering team develop applications to serve our customers' needs.

We further subdivide our engineering section into self-contained teams with 4-5 members each. Each engineering team is constructed to take a project or feature all the way from design to deploying to customers. With support from a lead engineer, a product manager, and our ops teams, engineering teams have autonomy to make technical decisions and control the outcome of the project.

We're an agile/scrum shop, so work is estimated and put into a two-week sprint. Each engineer is assigned features or bug tickets by their lead to be completed in that sprint.

A typical engineering workflow for a new feature.

Most teams do not specialize in any specific area. We try to maintain cross-functional teams to prevent siloing of information and reduce the bus factor. This also empowers engineers to solve problems in any area that they are needed.