Delivers assigned tasks, working with a more senior team member, and able to take PR feedback to improve their work
Independently works on small, low-impact, well-defined task
Looks to optimise existing work (eg Processes, procedures, products, etc)
Delivers assigned tasks that meet expected criteria
Works for the team, focuses on tasks that contribute to team goals
Tries to unblock themselves first before seeking help
Manages their own time effectively, prioritises their workload well, on time for meetings, aware when blocking others and unblocks
Helps the team, does what needs doing
Breaks down small/medium problems into iterative steps
Delivers small, well-defined tasks/projects
Delegates low-impact problems to solve
Delivers large well-defined tasks and solves small scope not-well-defined problems
Contributes to writing proposals (Co-authors with more experienced Engineer)
Breaks down large problems into smaller iterative steps across multiple PRs
Identifies problems to solve
Owns the implementation of the solution
Solves ambiguous problems
Leads writing small/medium scope proposals
Thrown at fires and resolves / contributes heavily to resolving them
Makes pragmatic choices about taking on tech debt
Considers multiple different solutions for solving a problem
Breaks down projects into smaller iterative steps that each deliver value
Can take a long-term vision and define building blocks to get there
Solves the 'hard problem' in a project and sees it through to resolution
Solves larger ambiguous problems
Leads incident resolutions
Makes judgements about when to diverge from the immediate goal to achieve something else
Leading large scale technical infrastructure projects
Leads writing large scope proposals
Breaks down large long-lasting projects into sensible discrete chunks that compound to achieve a large goal
Helps prioritise and balance short-term and long-term investments, focusing on high impact, high value work
Understands the big picture and integrates company goals into their area
Accountable for delivery of large, mission critical engineering projects
Originates or finishes large, horizontal engineering efforts
Is the accountable exec for high-impact projects