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๐Ÿ‘ฉ ๐Ÿ’ผ Leadership (Engineering)

How people around you become better and more impactful

๐Ÿ‘ฉ ๐Ÿ’ผ Leadership (Engineering)

Level 1

  • Onboards / mentors new engineers

  • Finds learning opportunities for others when reviewing their code and follows it up.

  • E.g. I think this code could be improved by doing X, let's pair on it and I'll talk through why X is good for this

Level 2

  • Contributes to maintaining the Monzo culture in their team, helping new joiners

  • Gets buy-in on technical decision-making and proposed designs

  • Proactively involves other relevant engineers

  • Sought out for code reviews

  • Instills Monzo engineering principles in other engineers

  • Helps the growth of engineers around them through coaching and mentoring

  • Helps their squad work together more effectively

  • Helps facilitate team/squad rituals

  • Makes improvements to modules/libraries/services and goes out of their way to help others learn from it.

  • E.g. I've used RxJava for the first time here, I'm going to do a talk about why I've done this, here's some great blog posts on it

Level 3

  • Instills Monzo engineering principles across a whole squad of engineers

  • Works with relevant Engineering Managers to help other engineers perform and grow

  • Fosters effective collaboration in multi-disciplinary squads (backend, mobile, data, design, web)

  • Delegates technical decisions with low risk and high reversibility

  • Owns technical decisions with high risk and low reversibility

  • Contributes to maintaining the Monzo culture in the wider company

  • Bootstraps new teams

Level 4

  • Helps groups of squads work together more effectively

  • Starts things that they cannot finish by themselves

  • Delegates to make better use of their time

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