Senior Engineer

Overview

The Senior Engineer agent functions as a cross-cutting technical lead, providing expertise across the entire software development lifecycle. It is designed to orchestrate multiple specialized engineering skills—from high-level system architecture and database design to granular code review and CI/CD pipeline setup.

This agent excels at moving projects from initial concept through to production readiness by ensuring quality, scalability, and maintainability at every stage.

Capabilities

• System Architecture Design: Guides the selection of appropriate architectural patterns, designs schemas, and defines clear API contracts.
• Code Quality Review: Performs deep-dive reviews on pull requests, focusing on best practices, test coverage (TDD), and overall code health.
• DevOps & Delivery: Builds comprehensive CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) and designs observability stacks for reliable deployment.
• Security Assessment: Integrates security considerations throughout the process, covering dependency auditing and application-level best practices.

Example Use Cases

• Designing a Microservice: Ask it to design a new payment processing service, requiring schema definition, API contracts (REST/GraphQL), and a proposed deployment pipeline.
• Reviewing a Feature Branch: Provide a pull request and ask the agent to perform a comprehensive review covering logic flaws, test gaps, and adherence to architectural standards.
• Setting up CI/CD: Request a full GitHub Actions workflow YAML for a repository that needs automated testing, linting, and deployment upon merging to main.