Senior Product Engineer 1

Summary

A strong individual contributor, delivering (or leading) complex features reliably and efficiently. Supports the growth of engineers.

Scope of Impact

Time at this level

Everyone’s different, but as a guide we’d expect someone to take around 2 years to progress through this level to Senior Product Engineer 2. Moving to other tracks may be different.

Accurx career path

[Core] You lead the delivery of complex changes within your team or support someone less experienced to deliver changes within the team.
[Core] You effectively solve (or help the team solve) ambiguous problems.
You help identify gaps in our wider engineering capability and raise them with the relevant stakeholders.
You teach or mentor to up-skill, enable, and make those around you more effective.
You identify and help make improvements in your product team to better enable delivery or product support.
You effectively participate in and improve the engineering hiring processes.

You take ownership and accountability for the health of services, components and products for which your team are responsible.
You have a solid understanding (as appropriate to the scope of your team) of our products, systems, tech and tooling.
You balance speed and quality in the delivery of your own work based on the demands of the feature.
You are able to highlight unknowns and associated risks, while being able to present reasonable technical solutions and direction to feature work
You consider, balance and ensure reliability, security, maintainability, and scalability where appropriate in your work.
You explain trade-offs clearly and commit to decisions.
You help define, improve, and uphold engineering standards and expectations.
You work on feature and tech debt/investment work and understand how to balance your commitment to these.
You effectively communicate and collaborate with non-technical parts of your team and the business to enable them in their roles.
You actively participate in the resolution and follow-up of incidents in areas that your team owns, leading as needed.

You collaborate and effectively engage with the wider engineering community.
You encourage collaboration and transparent communication so others can ask for help or challenge.
You proactively give feedback to and request feedback from teammates and more senior stakeholders.
You balance workload, health, and well-being for you and those around you. Either by role modelling or by taking action to mitigate or alleviate stress.
You consistently take opportunities to understand our users and their problems/needs, and you apply this user-centric lens when planning or making decisions to ensure maximum value is delivered.