QA >>> adops >>> JavaScript engineer.

Basically nothing has changed.

• Put out fires nobody else wants to deal with, or that everyone wants to deal with but nobody knows how
• Answer questions that nobody else will, especially whoever actually specializes in a given area.
• Catch bugs in other people's code and fix them.
• Thoroughly debug your own code because you can't trust QA to do anything.
• Maintain all of the old modules that people have given up touching or were written by the alcoholic engineer who just quit.
• Build new shit for client requests.
• Realize when client requests for shit are fucking stupid and they already have what they're asking for, or the problem can be solved in a much more efficient manner.
• Know all of the edge cases and answer emails, Slack questions, etc. about them.
• Teach newer (and older) employees.
• Create training materials and documentation.
• Jump in to talk to clients when the AM doesn't know what to say or is just wrong.