E2 Role Profile

Sphere of influence

Operates a a team member within a pod, with awareness of other pods within Engineering.
Operates at a story level within a feature within a team
Works with seniors in the team to reduce cross-team dependencies

Communications effectively in team ceremonies and in written form
Contributes effectively to team ceremonies
Contributes effectively to cross-team initiatives e.g. lunch and learns
Understands their work domain, shares their knowledge frequently with their teammates and contributes to their team’s documentation. Watches out for opportunities to share knowledge.

Draws attention to risks and works to minimise and remediate risks
Understands the importance of security. Utilizes this knowledge to ask more senior engineers for help on making decisions that may have security implications.
Usually handles risk, change, and uncertainty within their personal scope of work effectively.
Usually decides and acts responsibly without having the total picture during routine business, and when in high pressure situations.
Has conversations based on organizational strategy and principles with their teammates when appropriate. Strongly oriented towards goals and works towards their team’s goals.

Has a grasp of the fundamentals of the architecture of our system
Designs functions that are aligned with the overall service architecture.
Understands SOLID principles
Understands design patterns and can recognise patterns in use.
Uses a systematic approach to debug issues located within a single service.
Consistently writes functions that are easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors. Uses docstrings effectively.
Understands the testing pyramid, writes unit tests in accordance with it, as well as higher level tests with help from more senior engineers.
Always tests expected edge cases and errors as well as the happy path.

Has a delivery focus
Demonstrates lean and agile ways of working to maximise delivery and minimise work being done.
Before beginning work, ensures that tasks are appropriately sized for continuous integration and incremental delivery with help from teammates and manager.
Ensures tasks are prioritised correctly, and that dependencies are noted.
Commits to a realistic amount of work, and works with their teammates both to ensure they understand priority and urgency, and to deliver upon them accordingly.
Escalates any blockers, delays to their team at least daily. Clarifies expectations with their teammates.

Supports less experienced colleagues
Seeks out mentoring opportunities
Seeks out opportunities to be mentored
Actively ensures work aligns to the team’s definitions of ready, done and overarching ways of working
Seeks to improve team artifacts
Strives to be objective and reflects on their own biases when making decisions. Holds themselves accountable for decision and outcomes.