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Discussion on: What do you think the role software architect does?

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

The way we define roles on our team, it includes system-level design (working out the details of how the pieces are deployed, what kinds of resources are needed, etc.) and coding the infrastructure plumbing.

This role develops code for other developers to consume so that they can focus on the features of the application, and less on all the tech integration details.

I should note that everyone is welcome to participate in the design, but not everyone is comfortable making the final choices and writing the code.