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| | Software engineers today face a lot of difficulties in their jobs. The available toolset increases on a seemingly monthly basis. New frameworks are in, old frameworks are legacy. What was previously a job that could be specialized in across a few well-understood components is now spread out amongst large swaths of libraries, abstraction and infrastructure. This is the power of open-source, but also its curse. The fact that complexity is increasing around us is a trite argument. Due to this ongoing shift,...
| | lethain.com
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| | Most career ladders define a single, uniform set of expectations for Staff Engineers. These career ladders attempt to identify the commonalities across many folks performing similar roles in their organization, but in the end these ladders are a tool that apply better against populations than people. In the case of Staff-plus engineers, career ladders paper over a number of distinct roles clustered under a single moniker.
| | staffeng.com
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| | Story recorded in March, 2020. Learn more about Dan on his blog, Twitter, and Linkedin. Tell us a little about your current role: your title, the company you work at, and generally what sort of work does your team do? I'm a Staff Engineer at Squarespace. Squarespace is the leading all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence: websites, domains, online stores, marketing tools, scheduling appointments, etc. I also operate as the Team Lead of the Internationalization Platform team, which is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational primitives of internationalization across Squarespace products. Engineers use the tools and libraries we own to create localized products.
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