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KODE Product OS

Engineering

Five levels describe how an engineer's scope, judgment and influence grow over time.

Our engineering levels describe increasing scope, judgment, independence, technical skill, communication, ownership and coachability.

  • Every engineer's work gets reviewed, at every level.
  • Project lead is an assignment, not a level. Engineers at several levels lead projects.
  • Staff and Principal engineers don't need direct reports. They need high influence across the organization.

The levels

  1. L1 · Associate Engineer

    Delivers well-defined stories with guidance, and learns how we build.

  2. L2 · Engineer

    Delivers features and MVP milestones on their own, with occasional guidance.

  3. L3 · Senior Engineer

    Leads projects end to end and makes the people around them better.

  4. L4 · Staff Engineer

    Raises the bar across several projects or a whole area of the platform.

  5. L5 · Principal Engineer

    Shapes how KODE builds software for years, not just this quarter.