Software Dev Engineer III

SDE 3 Role Impact Value
Leads valuable features that are used by customers
Leads Scrum ceremonies
Suggests improvements to processes and methodologies to speed delivery
Questions requirements and challenges where necessary
Can identify value of tasks always works on the highest priority items.
Work effectively with stakeholders to communicate and translate their needs into improvements.
Lead group discussions on design of initiatives within domain. And understand domain well enough to work with Product Managers to drive value
Support production systems resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis.
Debug/find complex problems and support/maintain the software solution.
Share knowledge with the wider engineering community.
Mentor and develop engineers in the team.
Produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools.

Programming
Good Understanding of Java/J2EE programming language SOA Microservices NoSQL Dependency Injection frameworks RESTful services ORM frameworks Build tools etc.
Understands framework and enough of tool ecosystem of chosen language to implement end to end component with minimal assistance
Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance
Able to test drive features in programming language of choice
Understands different major language paradigms (OOP/Functional)
Understands presence of abstraction beneath language (JVM/CLR)
Can reason about complexity of algorithms (time and space) and code (cyclomatic)
Can debug code
Can understand and resolve complex issues

Design
Can Identify design patterns in code
Can implement design patterns with guidance
Comfortable translating small behaviour requirements into tasks code
Understanding of how high quality code can lead to rapid delivery
Good understanding of domains and domain modelling
Seeks out and uses appropriate abstractions
Good understanding of DRY and basic code hygiene factors
Good understanding of patterns for integration (events/services)
Good understanding on how to leverage existing functionality outside immediate project
Understands scope of project and when to move behaviour to other services
Understands the importance of project instrumentation

Development Practice
Good understanding of CI and CD.
Writes tests to ensure CI/CD processes work
Good understanding of BDD / TDD / Performance / Security / Smoke testing
Commits code early and often
Understands feature toggling
Understands version control branching strategies

Infrastructure
Good working knowledge of one relevant operating system
Understands one relevant Database technology
Can script and automate within relevant environment
Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies

Security
Can perform a tool based security scan and articulate vulnerabilities
Understands Oauth/Saml identity models
Basic grasp of secure coding and Write secure code by default

Behaviours Collaboration
Fully participates in team ceremonies
Comfortable pair programming
Can use whiteboard and other materials to convey designs and principles

Innovation
Stays abreast of industry news from a variety of sources
Can understand how industry developments may affect team

Core Technology Concepts
Understands major HTTP components (UDP/TCP/IP/HTTP/REST)
Understands core infrastructure components (servers networking load balancing)

Technical Skills
Should have:
Languages - Java 8+ and Lambda expressions
Dependency Management - Google Guice or Spring Framework or Micronaut
RESTful Web Service Frameworks
Build Tools - Gradle/Maven
CICD - Git Jenkins
Practices and Paradigms - Design Patterns Clean Coding
Testing - TDD BDD

Qualifications

Java Spring Boot NoSql Microservices CI / CD