Everyone asks the same question about our coding bots. Can it actually write the code? It can. That turned out to be the least interesting part. The interesting part is everything around the code. What the bot is allowed to touch. How you brief it. What you do when it tells you it’s finished. What t...

My board's gone dead quiet and I don't know why : ExperiencedDevs You Create a fictional Reddit thread where all the bots we built for Bot Frenzy talk about how they went — how they were wired up, what worked, what didn't. Make it read like a real thread. ✳Claude Sure. Here's how that might read — o...

For a long time, engineering interviews had this unspoken rule: Close ChatGPT.Turn off Copilot.How dare you use AI to code! That's not real engineering. We're not doing that. If you're interviewing for an engineering role at Kogan, you can use AI. Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, whatever's already...

Over the last several months, AI has moved from a side experiment to an integral part of day-to-day product practice. The shift is practical rather than theoretical, but it is still very much in motion. Recurring coordination work is beginning to take meaningfully less time, while the substantive wo...

At Kogan.com, engineering is about building software that is useful and seeing them used at scale. We work in a fast moving e-commerce environment, so the problems are real and often complex. Performance, reliability, scale, legacy constraints, new features, tight feedback loops. We ship frequently,...

After recently migrating our frontend to Remix, we took the opportunity to reassess how we approach frontend testing, particularly regression testing. While we already had unit test coverage, we identified a gap when it came to validating UI changes. This is where Chromatic became a part of our fron...

Designing Robust, Scalable, Maintainable Event ArchitecturesEvent-driven architecture (EDA) gives teams the ability to build decoupled, scalable systems that evolve independently. In the previous article, we introduced the idea using a restaurant analogy: instead of shouting instructions across the ...

As our project grows, we're always looking for ways to streamline development, improve performance, and enhance the developer experience. Recently, we've been exploring a shift from our traditional Django REST Framework (DRF) API patterns to a combination of Django Ninja API and Pydantic. This blog ...

In a talent landscape full of competitive opportunities, where change and turnover are part of the norm, Kogan.com stands out as a place where people choose to stay, grow, and advance their careers. Many of our team members have long tenures, with some contributing as long as 12 or 15 years, reflect...

The DEBI (Data Engineering and Business Intelligence) team recently attended the DataEngBytes 2025 conference, where the hot topic for the year was, unsurprisingly, AI agents. My favorite talk, by Geoffrey Huntley, presented a powerful and surprisingly simple idea: It’s not that hard to build an age...

How to load-balance like a seasoned waiterSoftware systems often parallel the real world. Imagine running a busy restaurant, where customers line up to make orders whilst the kitchen prepares the meals. In the software world, your users are the customers, and your backend services are the kitchen. W...

At Kogan.com, our data needs have grown alongside the business. As more teams relied on insights to move quickly, it became clear our request-based BI model couldn’t scale. We needed a platform that empowered teams to answer their own questions, trust the numbers, and move independently. That journe...

As developers, we pour our energy into building robust, elegant software. We craft features, optimise performance, and squash bugs. But in today's world, building secure software is just as crucial. Enter Threat Modeling – not as a bureaucratic chore, but as a practical superpower for developers aim...

We are always excited to welcome new talent to our team! At the heart of our engineering culture is a robust and agile onboarding process that gets new joiners up to speed in no time. We pride ourselves on helping our teams hit the ground running, shipping fast, experimenting boldly, and embracing f...

A/B tests are theoretically simple but sometimes offer challenges when insufficient data or events are tracked. In e-commerce, conversion rates are often highlighted as a key metric but what causes it and why. By leveraging additional tools that enable event tracking and session replays such as Full...

Committed to learning and continuous improvement, Kogan.com’s Engineering team develops its engineering talent through giving and taking responsibility, co-creation, mentorship, and internal mobility opportunities to grow and advance their careers. There are opportunities for Engineers at Kogan.com ...

A look into the potential impact of generative AI tools in the creative industry Video Killed the Radio StarThe Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” highlights some concerns regarding the rise of technology within the creative industry. Released back in 1979, the hit ironically proceeded to become...

You may have noticed iPhones don't exactly look the same… A lot has changed internally, User Interface (UI) components look far different than they used to. The code to create these views has evolved, and as a result, so have the UI components themselves. Swift, Apple's programming language for crea...

In the complex landscape of software development, aligning design methodologies with business needs is crucial. Domain-Driven Design (DDD) emerges as a key approach in addressing this alignment, especially in projects characterized by intricate business rules and processes. This methodology stands i...

Learning to embrace a hybrid approach for mobile app development: Native apps are best! Like the rest of the native mobile app development community, I typically agree with the notion that “native is best” when it comes to mobile apps. After all, these are the technologies we spend tens of hours eve...

We had a problem. Our CI pipeline was increasingly becoming a bottleneck in our iOS continuous integration. We here at Kogan like to develop at a fast pace, however we were constantly being held up waiting for builds to complete, leading to a lot of frustration within the team. The rest of the engin...

Introduction: In today's e-commerce landscape, seamless integration with third-party platforms is essential for expanding reach and boosting sales. This technical blog post delves into Kogan.com's ChannelAdvisor integration project, offering insights to software engineers on event-driven architectur...

Challenge - Our platform which houses millions of products were subject to regular updates by Marketplace sellers via APIs or by Kogan.com's internal teams. However, an arduous average update pipeline duration of 8 hours hindered the prompt visibility of these changes to customers on the website or ...

Optimizing Query performance in BigQuery presents large cost saving opportunities for the Engineering Team as well as a speed boost which benefits the business, stakeholders and developers alike.Following on from our meeting with the Google team, I was inspired to do some further learning and challe...