Startup Engineering OKR Examples

Build a javascript/serverless app that processes payments

• Draft 1 architecture for AWS
• Develop max.10 features for the first version (MVP)
• Deploy the application to AWS by the end of Q2

Deploy the app into production and own AWS devops

• Setup git flow and amplify environments
• Launch an automated deployment process on git push
• Implement error monitoring with Sentry and catch at least 10 errors

Develop image processing, OCR and text processing functionality

• Create a prototype for serverless image processing
• Launch 1 service with Amazon Comprehend for text processing
• Launch 1 prototype and onboard at least 20 new users

Build reliable + scalable data pipelines for marketing

• Install segment.com tracking into all properties
• Connect segment.com to our internal AWS Datalake
• Build 1 marketing performance dashboard

Create a process to ship every day instead of every week

• Refactor backend code to AWS Amplify
• Refactor frontend code to AWS Amplify
• Launch a new refactored version by the end of Q1

Build our new payment app from ideation to launch to feedback

• Organize and run 1 design thinking workshop with sales and marketing
• Develop a low-fidelity prototype and run user testing with at least 50 users
• Build MVP version with man. 5 features and gather feedback from 50 new users

Lead and grow a team of engineers

• Hire 3 new additional frontend engineers for Svelte
• Onboard 3 new frontend engineers for Svelte
• Submit written quarterly performance review to Head of HR

Own architecture and implementation of AWS infrastructure

• Create architectural design and store it in our internal wiki for documentation
• Provide 5 changes to the current architecture to increase speed by 30%
• Provide 5 changes to the current architecture to decrease costs by 25%

Setup the logging and alerting systems of our mobile app

• Install Sentry in all our web applications
• Create 1 dashboard and display data in real-time in our office
• Develop a system to fix bugs within 2 hours of occurrence

Build CI/CD pipelines and write automated tests

• Refactor our current architecture/code to AWS Amplify
• Setup automated ci/cd process to trigger on git push
• Write 25 units and 10 integrations tests before/after deployment