Software Engineer

This Software Engineer role focuses on developing foundational skills within a team environment. Responsibilities include contributing simple features and bug fixes with matching test cases, participating in team activities like backlog grooming and daily stand-ups, and engaging in code and design reviews. The role emphasizes continuous learning, improving code readability, and understanding the team's problem domain. For service-delivering teams, the role also involves performing routine changes and supporting incident resolution for limited service functions.

Must Have

• Contributes simple features and bug fixes and provides matching test cases
• Finds suitable work items in the team backlog with the help of other team members
• Participates in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Participates in code and design reviews
• Is aware of the team's continuous integration pipeline and fixes broken builds as necessary
• Learns how to improve readability and maintainability of code
• Continuously improves themselves and the code they produce
• Develops an understanding of the problem domain their team works on
• Autonomously performs routine changes
• Supports in resolving incidents around a limited set of service functions
• Independently handles service requests around a limited set of service functions

Good to Have

• Abstains from premature optimization
• Understands company and team visions
• Actively seeks support by team members to overcome obstacles
• Autonomously performs small refactorings to improve local software quality

Focuses on learning the craft and how to work in a team productively, in particular:

• Guided by team members, contributes simple features and bug fixes and provides matching test cases.
• Finds suitable work items in the team backlog with the help of other team members.
• Participates in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Participates in code and design reviews.
• Is aware of the team's continuous integration pipeline and fixes broken builds as necessary.
• Learns how to improve readability and maintainability of code.
• Continuously improves themselves and the code they produce.
• Develops an understanding of the problem domain their team works on.

Additions for service-delivering teams

• Autonomously performs routine changes.
• Supports in resolving incidents around a limited set of service functions.
• Independently handles service requests around a limited set of service functions.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

• Abstains from premature optimization.
• Understands company and team visions.
• Actively seeks support by team members to overcome obstacles.
• Autonomously performs small refactorings to improve local software quality.