Welcome to our exclusive interview series, where we invite you behind the scenes of the group LUNDI MATIN.
In each episode, we have the privilege of meeting with our team members, discovering their backgrounds, and exploring the interesting aspects of their role within the company.
Today, we are pleased to introduce Romain, one of our brilliant Web Developer. He will share with us his thoughts, challenges and highlights of his professional life, which is at the heart of LUNDI MATIN.
Romain tells us…
What is your position at LUNDI MATIN ?
I am a Web Developer on the LUNDI MATIN Business part, our ERP software. I started working at LUNDI MATIN in 2017 during an internship, followed by an alternation, and I have been on a permanent contract for 5 years.
My mission within LUNDI MATIN is the development of the LMB ERP software. More precisely, its maintenance and the addition of new features.
For example: the dashboard and statistics, the import system and the connection between LMB and our e-commerce solution, Gezy.
I also lead a team of 2 people for almost 3 years, when we set up the squad system for the distribution of projects.
The squad system is the name given to the organization mode of our R&D departments, where the team of developers is divided into several teams, each composed of a lead and two junior developers.
What are the stakes of your service?
Within the LUNDI MATIN R&D department, there are 4 teams, each working on one or two projects.
Our service aims to develop the LMB software and all its interfaces (AirKitchen back-office, RoverCash back-office, etc.), as well as other web projects, such as Gezy, our e-commerce solution.
Our division also ensures the stability of the software. We sometimes intervene and help the maintenance division when it is overloaded with work.
Can you give an overview of the complexity of your work?
The difficulty of my work lies in the fact that LMB is a big software. Sometimes you have to be able to dig through the whole code or the interface to find what you’re looking for.
For example, when a client comes up with a bug, we have to find the origin of the problem. We have to look in the code. The difficulty is that we work on the parts that we develop and we know less well the already existing parts.
My role is therefore to take a step back to understand the architecture of the software as a whole.
What did you learn working at LUNDI MATIN?
I learned to adapt.
LUNDI MATIN has many customers of different sizes, so the demands are just as varied. We must then adapt, be able to process a request for a Grand Account like Galeries Lafayettes, while meeting the needs of our smallest customers.
It also requires a lot of organization to plan the developments over a month and say exactly what we will work on, while leaving room for any interruptions due to customer requests. Our ability to adapt then intervenes.
I also learned to figure out how to understand other people’s code. We sometimes come across pieces of code that were made by former collaborators. You have to be independent, without necessarily asking someone for help.
Tell us about your greatest success!
My greatest success is the Gezy part. This is a project that we set up from A to Z. LUNDI MATIN already had an e-commerce solution following the acquisition of the company Oxatis. But the platform was becoming aging and difficult to keep up with new market trends. Oxatis v2 became Gezy and it was a project entirely designed in-house by LUNDI MATIN’s team.
What advice would you give to a new employee in your department?
In general, the advice I give to a newcomer at LUNDI MATIN is to try to be a maximum in autonomy. The essence of being a developer is the ability to solve complex problems. MONDAY MORNING projects are an excellent training center for that, so don’t be discouraged.
Of course, we are there to help him but first and before asking, he must try, think, put things more calmly, even if it takes more time. This certainly makes the task more difficult at first, but it makes it possible to better understand the operation of the various components of the projects and to obtain skills in software analysis, and therefore to be more efficient and more competent in the long term.
This is not advice specific to LUNDI MATIN, I think it is applicable to all companies.
Thank you Romain for your answers!
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