Faire has a well-established Engineering ladder, with a rubric that breaks down expectations at each level of the ladder. The aim of that rubric is to give concrete benchmarks and behaviours that correspond to levels, in order to give tractable metrics for employee performance, for reference when providing feedback (and, in turn, appropriate promotions).

But what are the skills that play into those metrics? In this article, we take a deeper dive into some observable behaviours and soft skills that generally manifest as effective engineering execution. …