▸ You play a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers.
▸ You make good decisions when to build new and when to extend existing.
▸ You are known for your subject matter expertise.
▸ Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team.
▸ You can propose and create best practices proactively where none exist.
▸ You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
▸ You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long term business needs.
▸ You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.
▸ You provide mentoring to other engineers and your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on engineers around you.
▸ You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.
▸ You can identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.
▸ Balance between new disruptive tech vs stable and proven.