🎉 Welcome

Welcome!

You're joining as a Senior Python Engineer — here to design scalable backend services, build reliable APIs, and contribute to system architecture.

This onboarding plan will guide you through key steps in your first month.

🛠️ Preboarding (Before Day 1)

• [ ] Offer signed and start date confirmed
• [ ] Access to: GitHub, Slack, CI/CD tools, production DB (read-only), Notion
• [ ] Dev environment setup doc shared
• [ ] Assigned onboarding buddy
• [ ] Added to backend & cross-functional meetings

📅 Week 1 – Setup & System Familiarity

🎯 Goal: Understand system, run it locally, explore architecture

• [ ] Run backend stack locally
• [ ] Review repo structure, environments, config files
• [ ] Read recent PRs and deployment logs
• [ ] Explore API design: routing, validation, docs
• [ ] Review Python/async frameworks used (e.g. FastAPI, Django)
• [ ] Explore CI/CD setup (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• [ ] Attend all engineering rituals
• [ ] Review service logs or bug reports for last 30 days