How people around you become better and more impactful
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
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
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
Helps groups of squads work together more effectively
Starts things that they cannot finish by themselves
Delegates to make better use of their time