Staff Software Engineer

Helps the team get better technically, mentors junior associates, and keeps customer success in focus, in particular:

• Inspires fellow engineers to become better at their craft and gives practical advice on writing cleaner code and effective tests.
• Actively identifies and reduces complexity in the software artifacts and motivates team members to do the same.
• Helps other team members to come up with simpler, more robust, and more efficient designs.
• Identifies root causes of issues and fixes those rather than their symptoms.
• Actively shares knowledge in their field of expertise, e.g., by contributing to open source software projects, offering training sessions, holding conference presentations, etc.
• Empowers, mentors, and grows less experienced team members, e.g., by sharing knowledge and providing hints so they come up with their own solutions.
• Actively increases awareness of information security among coworkers and demonstrates how to improve vulnerable code.
• Understands customer and consumer value and slices/writes user stories accordingly to deliver value faster.

Additions for service-delivering teams

• Designs services to be self-healing and to offer self-service capabilities from the ground up to achieve minimum manual intervention.