IWD dev team ladder

Level 1

• Title: Developer
• Experience: ~0–4 years*
• Goals: Builds defined features, investigates and fixes bugs, writes tests
  • Focus on growing as developer learning existing tools, resources and processes
  • Communicates progress, identifies blocking issues
  • Code review
  • Respect team process

Level 2

• Title: Senior Developer
• Experience: ~3–8 years*
• Goals:
  • Requires minimal direction/oversight
  • Has deep technical expertise
  • Takes initiative to identify and solve important problems
  • Regularly delivers software on-time
  • Self-sufficient in at least one large area of the codebase
  • Code review
  • Makes others better through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance, and mentoring
  • The best practice, process and documentation watchdog
  • Develop domains skills

Level 3

• Title: Lead developer
• Experience: ~10+ years*
• Role:
  • Lead a product team
  • Owns the development and rollout for the entire product
  • Promote culture, process, best practice
  • Identifies risks before starting major projects
  • Listens and guides debates to help reach a consensus
  • Goes out of their way to reduce complexity
  • Has deep technical & business/product expertise
  • Contribute to the product design
  • Manage hiring with the others lead developer & the CTO

Other roles

Ops

• Set up, supervise and monitor the production servers with the state of art technologies & best practices
• Manage the backup system for the entire company
• Help developers with the CI, other environments (dev ends, preprod, test...) & productivity
• Handle IT demands:
  • New employees needs (accounts, hardware, software setup...)
  • Help the others employees with computer issues

Architect

• Works in collaboration with teams' lead developers to organize and manage high priority projects
• Promotes culture, processes and best practices across all the teams
• Has a global vision of the technical solution of the products

Manager

• Works with the CTO
• Team building
• Manage day to day team life: support planning, holidays, sickness, personal issues...

CTO

• Helps the dev team to achieve the company's goals
• Works with the product team to define what to do next
• Organize and manage high priority projects
• Manages hiring
• Has a global vision of the technical solution of the products
• Promotes culture, processes and best practices across the company
• Board member

[*] the number of years of experience is provided as indication only. A developer with 8 years of experience could be hired as a lead developer, it depends on the skills and professional maturity. The same goes for the other levels.