Developer
Role also known as programmer or software engineer, requires a deep level of technical expertise.
Level | Senior | Position |
---|---|---|
1 | No | D1 - Developer 1 |
2 | No | D2 - Developer 2 |
3 | No | D3 - Developer 3 |
4 | Yes | D4 - Developer 4 |
5 | Yes | D5 - Developer 5 |
6 | Yes | D6 - Developer 6 |
7 | Yes | D7 - Developer 7 |
D1 - Developer 1
- Expertise: Learns: actively learns and adopts the technology and tools defined by the team
- System: Enhances: successfully pushes new features and bug fixes to improve and extend the system
- People: Learns: quickly learns from others and consistently steps up when it is required
- Process: Follows: follows the team processes, delivering a consistent flow of features to production
- Influence: Subsystem: makes an impact on one or more subsystems or team pods
D2 - Developer 2
- Expertise: Learns: actively learns and adopts the technology and tools defined by the team
- System: Designs: designs and implements medium to large size features while reducing the system’s tech debt
- People: Supports: proactively supports other team members and helps them to be successful
- Process: Enforces: enforces the team processes, making sure everybody understands the benefits and tradeoffs
- Influence: Subsystem: makes an impact on one or more subsystems or team pods
D3 - Developer 3
- Expertise: Specializes: is the go-to person for one or more technologies and takes initiative to learn new ones
- System: Designs: designs and implements medium to large size features while reducing the system’s tech debt
- People: Supports: proactively supports other team members and helps them to be successful
- Process: Challenges: challenges the team processes, looking for ways to improve them
- Influence: Team: makes an impact on the whole team, not just on specific parts of it
D4 - Developer 4
- Expertise: Evangelizes: researches, creates proofs of concept and introduces new technologies to the team
- System: Owns: owns the production operation and monitoring of the system and is aware of its SLAs
- People: Mentors: mentors others to accelerate their career-growth and encourages them to participate
- Process: Challenges: challenges the team processes, looking for ways to improve them
- Influence: Team: makes an impact on the whole team, not just on specific parts of it
D5 - Developer 5
- Expertise: Masters: has very deep knowledge about the whole technology stack of the system
- System: Evolves: evolves the architecture to support future requirements and defines its SLAs
- People: Mentors: mentors others to accelerate their career-growth and encourages them to participate
- Process: Adjusts: adjusts the team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through the changes
- Influence: Multiple Teams: makes an impact not only on the whole team but also on other teams
D6 - Developer 6
- Expertise: Innovates: designs and creates new technologies that are widely used either by internal or external teams
- System: Leads: leads the technical excellence of the system and creates plans to mitigate outages
- People: Mentors: mentors others to accelerate their career-growth and encourages them to participate
- Process: Adjusts: adjusts the team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through the changes
- Influence: Company: makes an impact on the whole tech organization