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This section specifies the list of technical skills expected from an A5 grade. To cover this knowledge please refer to this avaialble resources

Frontend

  • Extensive knowledge of HTML5 attributes/tags to structure a page appropriately (including semantic html)
  • Have a extensive understanding of key Javascript concepts, including:
    • Closures
    • Functional programming
    • Key ES6 syntax (spreading, destructuring, fat arrow, let, const, var, async/await/promises)
  • Have a good understanding of testing
    • TDD
    • Jest
    • Code coverage and unit tests coverages
  • Have a good understanding of React + hooks + react-testing-library, and basic understanding or awareness of additional frameworks like Angular or VueJS.
  • Basic knowledge or appreciation of Typescript
  • Basic knowledge of document structure (mainly json)

Backend

  • Have a good understanding and working with NodeJS
    • Building a basic app with a node framework (Express, Hapi, etc)
    • Building a basic REST API with node framework (Express, Hapi, etc)
    • Persist data with DB (e.g. MongoDB, Firestore)
    • Error handling
  • Good knowledge of building a Rest API (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/UPDATE) using a Nodejs framework such as (Expressjs, Hapi)
  • Basic knowledge of debugging NodeJs application using node inspect, reading logs, etc
  • Writing tests and code coverage
    • TDD
    • Jest
    • Code coverage and unit tests coverages (i.e. Instanbul)

Cloud

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification

Practice

  • Attends monthly Experience Engineering meetups
  • Contributes to monthly team meetups (as a speaker, host or organiser)
  • Supports junior colleagues with their careers, as a reviewer

Self development

  • Engages with reviewer at least once a month and sets up a career development plan
  • Expands knowledge of specific topics
  • Seeks out opportunities to enhance talents and skills

Leadership skills

  • Able to demonstrate problem solving skills, identify and communicate problems with the product team and process, e.g. raise a concern about inefficient standups at the retro
  • Leads by example
  • Initiates change
  • Grows teams
  • Understands what drives people
  • Develops processes
  • Starts leading teams and initiatives

Mentorship skills

  • Mentors and coaches junior colleagues
  • Effective pair programming with other developers, both more junior and more senior
  • Supports onboarding of new team members to Experience Engineering team and project team

Communication skills

  • Good written and spoken communication
  • Proactive communicator
  • Able to ask for help when needed
  • Communicates with peers effectively and in a timely manner
  • Can explain work to peers and non-technical stakeholders
  • Able to demo work to technical and non-technical audience

Team skills

  • Displays empathy towards colleagues, e.g. checks in with a colleague who may be struggling, or, give unprompted positive feedback to a colleague
  • Avoids blame and fosters an environment of teamwork and cooperation instead
  • Has awareness of team morale and can take steps to improve morale
  • Has positive impact on team productivity

Delivery skills

  • Understands when to get support
  • Takes initiative to find and fix defects
  • Able to delegate
  • Estimates size and scope of deliverables effectively
  • Contributes to code reviews

Business knowledge

  • Understands how value is delivered on a project
  • Has thorough Agile knowledge