Life as a Software and Engineer

Pembicara : Denni Gautama 

                    Head of Engineering

                    (Accomodation)

                  

                    Mohammad Fajrin Azis

                    Sr.Software Engineer

                    (ITS Alumnus)

Life as a Software and Engineer

What else do they do?

(+) Communicate (idea, plans, updates, challenges, concerns)

(+) Share knowledge (documentation, tech-talk, mentoring)

(+) Constant refactoring (continuous code and design improverment)

(+) Code reviews (complexity, readability, maintainability)

(+) Design reviews (tech-stack, scalability, security, sustainability, operational, cost)

(+) DevOps improvements(build systems, CI/CD, test report/dashboard)

(+) Continuous learning (from other teams and external)

How do I start?

Find the right Tech company!

That is NOT ABOUT : Great salary

                                 Free food

                                       Flexible hours and paid time-offs

                                       Board games, video games

                                       Ping pong tables  

And LOOK FOR :       Responsibilities

                                      Challenges

                                      Mentorship    

What do Software Engineers do?  

(+) Partner with Product Manager to design (requirements, UI) the product

(+) Design the system (or subsystem)

      * Decide your tech stack

      * Plan your capacity (can it scale?)

      * Plan your rollout (phased rollout, rollback strategy)

      * and many more (security, data tracking, integration with other systems)

(+) Write code!

(+) Write unit test, integration test, load/stress test

(+) Release to staging and production

(+) Production support (monitoring), operational

(+) Rinse & repeat (either feature enchancement or new features) 

What's the expectation?

(+) fix a specific bug or task

(+) build a feature may work with others, scope is already well-defined

(+) build feature need to figure out others that may need to be involved, not all scope is already 

      well-defined

(+) lead a project involving several team members

(+) lead a project involving several team members and other teams (cross team project)

(+) assess and propose projects to do for the team/org/company