Backend Developer OKR Examples

Protect data integrity and audit authorization and authentication processes

Our authorization and authentication flows have changed so the old architecture diagrams have to be updated

• Create a user flow diagram to understand all authentical / authentification processes
• Develop and deploy rule-based access control to AWS Cognito for devs by end of July
• Deploy a daily backup system for AWS Cognito user pools and store securely on S3

Share your knowledge with the team

Our startup is growing 10x and we are onboarding 3 new developers per month, but the dev speed slows down

• Create a central knowledge repository and write 10 articles for junior developers
• Run 3 workshops including knowledge quizzes for new hires till the end of March
• Create 5 checklists for releases to production

Improve agile development and continuous delivery

To release new features more quickly and react to customer feedback we need to redesign our ci/cd

• Implement OKR for the payment development team and develop a sample set of 15 OKRs
• Migrate from Gitlab to AWS Codebuild and Code Commit till the end of January
• Refactor ci/cd pipelines to increase the speed of release of our application to under 5 minutes

Deploy new enterprise reference architecture for the future of software development

• Show 1 POC of the new architecture
• Implement the API Manager to test the POC
• Deploy new architecture as microservices

Switch from Google to AWS

The objective is to prepare a plan to switch from Google to AWS to improve the scalability and reliability of our SaaS

• Create a migration plan for all existing systems on Google to AWS
• Conduct a thorough analysis of the benefits of switching to AWS
• Execute the migration plan and ensure a smooth transition to AWS

Improve SaaS platform performance

The objective is to improve the performance of our SaaS platform to provide better user experience to our customers

• Identify and fix any bottlenecks in the current system architecture
• Implement performance optimization techniques to improve user experience
• Monitor and measure the performance improvements after the changes

Enhance SaaS platform security

The objective is to enhance the security of our SaaS platform to protect sensitive customer data and prevent cyber attacks

• Conduct a security audit and identify any vulnerabilities in the system
• Implement industry-standard security measures to protect customer data
• Monitor and test the security measures regularly to ensure their effectiveness