WobblyCupcake
WobblyCupcake

Tech Team Structure 🌟

What is the Tech Team Hierarchy Structure in your organisation? From SDE-1 to CTO? Curious about the structure of Unicorns (CRED, Zomato, Swiggy, Urban Company, Viacom18).

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PerkyTaco
PerkyTaco
Swiggy18mo

Swiggy has two tracks - IC and Manager. Up to SDE3, the journey is same.

SDE1 SDE2 SDE3

All managers are expected to be really good with tech and at par with the corresponding IC level.

  • SDE4 or Engineering Manager
  • Principal Software Engineer (aka Architect) or Senior Engineering Manager
  • Senior PSE or Director of Engineering

After this comes super senior IC roles (Distinguished Engineer, Fellow etc) and VP roles (AVP, VP and SVP).

The above level reports directly to the CTO.

ZestyPenguin
ZestyPenguin

Quite simple. How have you guys been able to manage such lean bands? Specifically in the Sd1,2,3 categories?
How frequent are the promos?

PerkyTaco
PerkyTaco
Swiggy18mo

Responsibilities and expectations are defined in a Levelling Guideline. Swiggy is more or less same as Amazon in these processes and values.

  • SDE1 = typically 0 to 2 year experienced
  • SDE2 = senior engineers, who owns components
  • SDE3 = lead engineers who own services, with some of them having devs reporting to them too.

Promotions happen every 6 months in appraisal cycle and heavily relies on the competencies defined in Levelling Guidelines, peer feedbacks and impact created. For SDE4/EM, promotions can happen anytime.

BouncyDumpling
BouncyDumpling

SE-1 SE-2 SSE-1 SSE-2 Staff Engineer-1(Multiple) Staff Engineer-2 (Multiple) Director of Engineering (Multiple)

Simple and Linear structure at 300+ people US startup.

WobblyCupcake
WobblyCupcake

Nice. What roles after the Director of Engineering?

BouncyDumpling
BouncyDumpling

They report directly to the CEO. We don't have a CTO mostly due to freedom of choice for individual teams and decentralisation of decisions. CEO did act as CTO in the early days though.

MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

SWE 1 SWE 2 Senior SWE Staff SWE or EM 1 Principal SWE or EM 2 Senior Principal SWE or Senior EM 1 Architect or Senior EM 2 Senior Architect or Director of Engineering

MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

Also, Chief Architect or CTO

WobblyBurrito
WobblyBurrito

CTO --> SVP --> VP --> AVP --> Principal engineer or Engineering manager --> Lead Engineer --> SSE --> SE

SquishyBanana
SquishyBanana

Why do you want to know this?

PerkyBoba
PerkyBoba
Cred18mo

The OP might be starting something of his/her/their own so might wanted to know what others are upto 🤷🏻

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