How to Define Your Web Development Team Structure

You have decided that your company needs a website. So, the next step is to hire a dedicated web development team. But initially, plenty of questions arise. I.e., ‘How long web development process lasts?’, ‘How many people in the team?’, ‘What is web development team structure looks like?’, etc.

To answer these and other questions, we wrote an exhaustive article. It covers everything you may be interested to know about the web development team.

So, let’s dive right in.

Web development roles and responsibilitiesCode&Care is a full-stack software development company. Among our capabilities is building software for all popular platforms. We are at the forefront of technological advances and innovations, working with superb programming languages and frameworks. Now we have 80+ experts on board. All of them are divided into teams. According to our web development organizational structure, every team includes software engineers, Project Manager, and QA engineers.

They unite their skills and experience to provide excellent results to the end-users. At the first sight, it may seem like some of the roles are unnecessary. But what we learned is that having everybody in their place makes the whole team more powerful and efficient.

Let's briefly overview the role of every team member.Frontend developerAny website or a web portal always has at least two sides — front-end and back-end. So, each team needs at least two programmers that are responsible for them. Frontend covers everything website visitors can see or interact with. The frontend developers are experts at HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Also, they work with front-end libraries and frameworks. I.e., Bootstrap, Angular, Vue, React.JS, etc. They work with layouts and wireframes provided by the UI/UX designers and recreate the website image step by step. The major task of frontend developers is to build web pages that will be displayed on any gadget or browser impeccably.Backend developerThe responsibility of backend developers is the server-side of the web application. Simply put, their work comprises everything except for animation and visuals. I.e, it’s not enough to visualize buttons by HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Code under the hood is needed to make it work. Usually, the backend developers are skilled in Java, Php,.NET, Ruby, Python, SQL, and know how to use all the necessary frameworks and tools. Full-stack developerUsually, a web development team has at least one full-stack developer. What distinguishes full-stack developers from other programmers? The key distinction is a skill to work with client-side and server-side by themself. DevOps EngineerThe key task of a DevOps Engineer is to take your website infrastructure to the next level. Infrastructure includes code, automated processes, scalable, robust, and tailored cloud solutions. The DevOps make sure our app is fast, secure and available for people from all over the world. You may be scared of their work cost. But the price is not really so high as you may suppose. A skilled DevOps Engineer will make sure that your infrastructure scales up and down when it’s needed. You’ll only pay for what you actually need and virtually use.QA engineerQA or a Quality Assurance engineer is one more significant player in the web app development process. They perform acceptance testing to guarantee that your website works according to the business requirements. They prepare testing strategies, develop test plans and test cases, execute those tests, and track bugs. When automation tests fail, they write bug reports and later double-check that web developers have successfully fixed all issues.The most important responsibilities of a QA engineer are writing tests, test software quality, performing regression and negative tests, test the user interface, and app compatibility with various browsers.