A new iteration of our engineering career path at Alan — Level B1

This is a companion article of the more global one the engineering career path at Alan.

This article focuses on the level B1.

Level B1

You are starting your career in the role.

• Scope of Impact: You are autonomous on the tasks and small projects that you own.
• Expertise: You are building and refining core technical skills.
• Leadership: You demonstrate that you learn efficiently.

Scope of impact

You are autonomous on the tasks and small projects that you own.

Autonomous

• You communicate clearly on the status of your projects without prompting from your team lead
• Once you have fully aligned on the scope and expected outcome of your tasks with peers you can build and ship them independently
• You start to propose appropriate solutions to your tasks without significant outside input

Own

• You take ownership and know how to move a project forward at the right pace
• You frequently ask more experienced engineers for help when needed, to efficiently move your projects forward quickly

Tasks & small projects

• You consistently contribute to well-defined tasks that deliver high-quality results with the guidance of a more senior engineer
• You are a strong contributor to well-defined tasks with limited ambiguity

Expertise

You are building and refining core technical skills

Building and refining

• You are comfortable contributing to product framings for the tasks you work on
• You are focused on building solid technical skills in order to increase the scope of technical projects you are comfortable owning

Technical skills

• You are operational with all of Alan’s technologies that are used by their team
• You can ship code to production without the help of other engineers
• You are aware of the impacts of your code and know how to test effectively

Leadership

You demonstrate that you learn efficiently.

Learn efficiently

• You are exemplary at receiving feedback, taking a step back and reflecting on how to improve based on it

Engineering team Impact

• We don’t expect you to have an impact on the team at this level and encourage you to focus your energy on your personal growth.