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Enova Career Ladders

What Is this?

Enova has decided to open source it's career ladders. You can find background on why we created new ladders here and why we open sourced them here.

What's inside?

There's 6 ladders contained:

• core_engineer - This is the basis of every team member, regardless of your specific focus.
• software_engineer - Software Engineer Ladder
• software_ui_engineer - Software UI Engineer Ladder
• software_test_engineer - Software Test Engineer Ladder

After you become a Lead Engineer, you can select to either go into the Individual Contributor track or the Mangement track:

• individual_contributor - Principal Engineer Ladder
• mangement - Manager Ladder

Structure

Each position is meant the build on the position before it. So a Sr. Software Engineer II is expected to fulfill everything found in the Software Engineer I, II and Sr. Software Engineer I descriptions.

The ladders also progress in terms of what each position impacts: starting with a project, moving to your team, core, SE, tech and, finally, to the company.

Definitions

Within the ladders there's some Enova specific terminology:

• Core - We have organized teams focused on either specific products or internal operations. These core teams don't change that often. This is the bulk of our team.
• Ranger - The remaining engineers are broken out into 4 person ranger teams. These teams are assigned every 6 weeks during a company wide prioritization process known as EPG.
• SE - Software Engineering
• Architecture Council - Large, cross functional team made up of members of SE, IT, Analytics, Data Services and TechOps that help organize company wide projects and initiatives.

Why Ugly Markdown?

Markdown doesn't represent tables / matrices well. GFM only supports single line table cells, so they wouldn't work here. If you have some suggestions, please, open up an issue or, better yet, submit a PR.

Feedback

Feedback is welcome. Feel free to ping Griffin Caprio with questions or comments.

Licensing

These Career Ladders are released by Enova under the MIT License.