Webinar: Who are Staff+ engineers and how to get into this role

Who are Staff+ engineers? In this webinar, you will learn what the specifics of this role are and what you may encounter in various IT companies.

Is it necessary to become a manager after a Senior position? No, you can continue to develop in the engineering direction! There are Staff and/or Principal levels for this. Usually, such positions can appear in companies where there are already 30+ engineers. These levels can be combined as Staff+.

The main difference from Senior — this is the level of influence. A Staff+ engineer affects multiple teams, sometimes the entire company.

In the webinar, you will understand who Staff+ engineers are and how they differ from architects or managers. We'll also break down an example of a promotion to this position, AND you'll get to know the tools that will help you develop your career towards this role.

Who will be interested?

• Senior developers
• To architects
• For workshop participants How to build a career as a senior developer: Staff+
• To everyone who plans to develop their career in the technical direction.
• Technical professionals who need universal skills to increase their expertise

Format:

Date and time: April 16, 19:00 - 20:00, (Kyiv time, GMT+2).

The event will be broadcast on Fwdays YouTube channel, you only need to register to watch. Before the start of the webinar, you will receive an email with a link to the broadcast, and the link will be available on this landing page.

Language of the event and presentation: Ukrainian

Program

Intro
• What do Staff+ engineers do?
• 10 main features of Staff+
• We are working on our own promo (practice). Fill out a Brag Document to reveal what you already do in addition to your position and how it can be used for promotion.
  Let's set SMART goals to increase your visibility in the company. It is easier to move up the career ladder when not only your team knows about you. :)
  We are preparing the next steps for your new role.

Hard skills
• Architecture for developers
• Modern approaches to software development
• Practice. We will consolidate the acquired knowledge by developing and justifying the technical architecture for the company according to the brief. You will learn to design architectures that solve current business challenges. And most importantly, you will be able to explain why your chosen architecture will work in this situation.

Soft skills
• Communicating Tech (Practice). Using the framework, you will create a simple and clear explanation for a topic in which you are an expert. You will learn to confidently create interesting and understandable presentations on any technical (and not only) topics. It will be easier for you to "sell" your ideas and attract support
• Conflict Resolution & Productive meetings (practice). You yourself design a meeting that will allow you to effectively solve the problem and leave all its participants satisfied and heard.