🧑‍💻 Software Engineer - Level L0 (Interns/Trainees)

🛠️ Technical Skills

📝 Code Quality & Testing

🖊️ Writing Code

• Writes code with testability, readability, edge cases, and error handling.

🧪 Testing

• Knows the testing pyramid. Writes unit tests, sometimes with help from more senior engineers. Always tests their work before submitting for code review.

🔄 PR Practices

• Follows proper Pull Request format as mentioned for the repo.

📚 Documentation

• Follows documentation process set by organizations and makes sure to get it reviewed by seniors before publishing. This includes in-code comments and Confluence/Google Docs.

🐞 Debugging & Observability

🔎 Debugging

• Understands the basics of debugging and the tools used for it.

🏗️ Software Design & Architecture

🧠 Understanding Code

• Is able to gain context within team's domain with help from more senior engineers.

🏛️ Software Architecture

• Is mostly aware of the system architecture. Designs basic functions with an awareness of the system architecture, avoiding duplication across codebases and interface-breaking changes.

🛡️ Security

• Understands the importance of security.

🚀 Delivery & Effectiveness

📦 Incremental Value Delivery

• Understands value of rightsizing tasks to enable continuous integration and incremental delivery.

🎯 Prioritisation, dependencies

• Acts according to task prioritization.

📆 Self Organization

• Has daily conversations with the team about the progress of their work. Delivers on commitments with a sense of urgency.

🤝 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

• Communicates effectively, clearly, concisely, and in an audience-oriented way, in written and verbal form.
• Actively listens to others and ensures they are understood.
• Pays attention to non-verbal communication.

📚 Knowledge Sharing

• Understands their area of work and shares their knowledge frequently with their teammates.

🤝 Collaboration

👥 Teamwork

• Helps their teammates when requested. Gives or shares credit where due.

💼 Relationship building

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

🕊️ 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

• Aware of team/product strategy and engineering organization priorities. Strongly oriented towards goals and works towards their team's goals.

💭 Process Thinking

• Understands their team's practices and processes.

👨‍🏫 Mentoring

• Seeks out mentorship to grow their own experience.

🎯 Strategic Impact

📈 Business Acumen

• Has a basic understanding of their team's domain and the business landscape.