Building stuff – coding, code reviews, fixing bugs, peer programming, incident response, reverse‑engineering tasks, and more.
Planning / architecture – estimating, collaborating with product, establishing MVP.
Learning and teaching – chapter reviews, research, meetups, coaching and mentoring developers to level up.
Enabling – working on shared libraries, contributing to open source, defining, documenting and evolving best practices for development in the team’s area of focus.
Avoiding pitfalls – identifying potential risks in delivering complex features and proposing ways to mitigate them.
Qualifications
Staff‑level experience – extensive experience as a staff engineer, leading large‑scale incidents, improving architectures, sharpening runbooks and building lasting institutional knowledge.