IC2 Software Engineer
I am prolific at delivering resilient and sustainable software projects from design to implementation and rollout
Scope
Area of ownership and level of autonomy / ambiguity
- I execute on defined projects to achieve team-level goals.
- I independently define the right solutions or use existing approaches to solve defined problems.
Collaborative Reach
Organizational reach and extent of influence
- I work primarily within the scope of my team with high level guidance from my manager/TL
Impact Levers
Technical levers typically exercised to achieve business impact
- Craft - I am increasingly mastering my craft and leverage it for higher impact (e.g. software design)
- Mentorship - I may mentor new hires, interns, or more junior engineers.
Core Responsibilities
🏆 Results
Impact
- I have a bias for actions, act with urgency and deliver high-quality work that will add the most value for our business, cross-functional stakeholders, and customers
- I work with my manager to direct my focus so my work advances my team's goals
- I prioritize the right things and don't overcomplicate my work. When necessary, I propose appropriate scope adjustments.
- I effectively participate in the core processes of my team, including recommending and implementing process improvements
Ownership
- I follow through on my commitments, take responsibility for my work, and deliver on time
- I proactively identify and advocate for opportunities to improve the current state of projects, and team processes
- I own my decisions and mistakes, and learn from them
- I think a step or two ahead in my work, solve the right problems before they become bigger problems, and problem-solve with my manager when I'm stuck
- I respond with urgency to operational issues (e.g., SEVs), owning resolution within my sphere of responsibility
- I look for opportunities to reduce KTLO and and work with the team to ease the burden for on-call
- I am vigilant about degradations in service by tracking key metrics, and I advocate for declaring a SEV if my concerns are warranted
Decision Making
- I Identify and gather input from the right stakeholders and consider customer needs to make informed and timely decisions
- I understand the implications of my decisions and adjust my approach based on the impact and risk, and share that rationale with relevant stakeholders
- I escalate to my manager when I need help with a decision about my deliverables or priorities
🌟 Direction
Agility
- I have an open mindset to change, and am enthusiastic about new initiatives
- I work with my manager to navigate complex and ambiguous situations
- I am learning to stay calm under pressure and building practices to take care of my well-being
Innovation
- I ask questions and contribute to new ideas/approaches
- I have a growth mindset and am comfortable experimenting with new approaches, learning, owning the outcomes, and sharing what I learned
🌳 Talent
Personal growth
- I proactively ask for feedback from my manager, team, and cross-functional stakeholders and identify ways to act upon it
- I have self-awareness about my strengths and areas for development
- I drive discussions with my manager about aspirational goals and seek out opportunities to learn and grow (e.g., PGP, Dropbox-offered training, leveraging perks allowance etc.)
Team Development
- I model integrity and a high standard of excellence for my work
- I help more junior members of my team, interns, or new hires taking into account their unique strengths, backgrounds, and working styles
- I offer honest, timely and direct feedback that is delivered with empathy to help others learn and grow
- I actively contribute to interviewing and assessing candidates to help us build a diverse and talented team in terms of background and location. I am calibrated and consistently perform high-signal interviews
- I am able to represent my team’s initiatives and goals to candidates in a compelling way
🌈 Culture
Collaboration
- I can effectively collaborate and adopt necessary tools (e.g., pair programming) that adapts to virtual first and get work done
- I work with my manager to engage in productive conflict with thoughtful questioning and have the courage to state my point of view
- I avoid blame, clarify problems to focus on solutions, and “disagree and commit” when necessary to move decisions forward
- I promote and role model Dropbox core values
Organizational Health
- I contribute to a positive sense of community on the team (e.g. engage in team lunches, team offsites, and other virtual or in-person group activities, help with new-hire on-boarding).
- I listen to different perspectives and I cut biases from my words and actions
- I practice the Dropbox Diversity Commitments on a regular basis
- I champion Virtual First practices that help my team collaborate effectively
Communication
- I write and speak with clarity and focus
- I listen to understand others and ask clarifying questions
- I proactively share relevant information on my project including difficult task-level trade-offs that impact the product to my manager and team (including product/business partners)
🦉 Craft
Code Fluency
- I translate ideas into clear code, written to be read as well as executed
- My code is free of glaring errors - bugs are in edge cases or design, not mainline paths - and is well documented and well tested with appropriate use of manual vs automated tests
- I actively engage and reconcile different opinions in code reviews and can follow best practices set up by others
- I’m able to read and navigate through a large code base and effectively debug others’ code
- I address code tasks with both high throughput and appropriately high quality for the stage of project I am working on
Software Design
- I’m able to understand the existing designs and technology choices within my area, and I make appropriate adjustments to existing designs when necessary
- Code modules I write exhibit good separation of concerns
Architecture design
- I’m able to decompose a simple problem or business scenario into a solution composed of multiple software components interacting with each other.