🧑‍💻 Associate Software Engineer - Level L1 (Fresher Full Time)

🛠️ Technical Skills

📝 Code Quality & Testing

🖊️ Writing Code

• Writes code with testability, readability, edge cases, and errors in mind.

🧪 Testing

• Understands the testing pyramid and writes unit tests in accordance with it, as well as higher level tests with guidance from more senior engineers.
• Always tests expected edge cases and errors, in addition to the happy path.

🔄 PR Practices

• Follows PR practices defined by the engineering team, such as PR size, PR description, PR merge time, etc.

📚 Documentation

• Follows the documentation process set by the organization and ensures it is reviewed by seniors before publishing. This includes in-code comments and external documentation (Confluence, Google Docs, etc.).

🐞 Debugging & Observability

🔎 Debugging

• Uses a systematic approach to debug issues located within a single component.

🚨 Monitoring

• Is aware of the engineering organization's monitoring philosophy and the operational data for their team’s domain.
• Should understand tools used like Prometheus, Grafana, basic logging.
• Should be able to trace errors in logs in the system.

🏗️ Software Design & Architecture

🧠 Understanding Code

• Understands a portion of the team's domain, can gain sufficient context to work productively in that portion.

🏛️ Software Architecture

• Is aware of the overall system architecture for their team's product/service.
• Designs basic functions with an awareness of the system architecture, avoiding duplication across codebases and interface-breaking changes.

🛡️ Security

• Understands the importance of security. Utilizes this knowledge to ask more senior engineers for help on making decisions that may have security implications.

🚀 Delivery & Effectiveness

📦 Incremental Value Delivery

🔨 Work Breakdown

• Before beginning work, ensures that tasks are appropriately sized for incremental delivery with help from teammates and manager.

🎯 Prioritisation, dependencies

• Understands and acts according to task prioritisation. Notes dependencies.

🌪️ Dealing with Ambiguity

• Usually handles risk, change, and uncertainty within their personal scope of work effectively.
• Usually consult with senior and decides and acts responsibly without having the total picture during routine business, and when in high pressure situations.

📆 Self Organization

⏳ Reliability, delivery accountability

• 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, and cost ballooning to their team daily.
• Clarifies expectations with their teammates.
• Max Deflection of delivery time (20%).

💰 Economic Thinking

• Understands the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making.
• Asks more senior engineers for help in applying this type of thinking to their work.

🤝 Feedback, Communication & Collaboration

🔄 Feedback

• Understands how to deliver praise and constructive feedback in a useful manner.
• Actively seeks out feedback from their teammates and manager, and works to use feedback that they receive as a tool for growth.

📣 Communication

💬 Effective Communication

• Usually communicates effectively, clearly, concisely and in an audience-oriented way in written and verbal form both technical and non technical subjects, to their teammates.
• Actively listens to others and ensures they are understood.
• Pays attention to nonverbal communication.

📚 Knowledge Sharing

• 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.

🤝 Collaboration

👥 Teamwork

• When requested, helps their teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.
• Gives or shares credit where due.

💼 Relationship building

• Works to build strong relationships with their teammates, manager, and product counterpart.

🕊️ Handling Disagreement

• Openly shares their opinions and contributes to discussions in a respectful manner. Works with teammates to resolve disagreements in a healthy manner.
• Is open to changing their perspective and plans based on others' input.

🎖️ Leadership

🤔 Decision Making

• Understands the impact of biases on decision making. Understands accountability.

🧭 Driving Alignment

• Contributes to conversations based on Team / product strategy and engineering organization priorities with their teammates when appropriate.
• Strongly oriented towards goals and works towards their team's goals.

💭 Process Thinking

• Sometimes thinks about team practices and processes and discusses improvements with the team in retrospectives or through other channels.

👨‍🏫 Mentoring

• Seeks out mentorship to grow their own experience.

🎯 Strategic Impact

📈 Business Acumen

• Has a basic understanding of their team's domain, and how it contributes to overall business strategy.

🚀 Strategic Work

• Understands the engineering strategy.

🎯 Product Thinking

• Understands product area of focus, how it fits into the overall business, and sometimes makes improvement suggestions for it.