Sample plan
A Senior Software Engineer's
first 90 days, generated by AI.
This is a sample of what Arcora produces — pre-generated, not personalised to you. Your real plan is built around your role, company, manager, team shape, and goals in about a minute.
90-day plan
Senior Software Engineer · Growth-stage startup
Phases
3
Weeks
12
Goals
8
Stakeholders
6
Success at 90 days
By Day 90 I'm a trusted contributor — included in design discussions early, comfortable on-call, shipping medium features without a buddy, and starting to be the go-to for at least one part of the codebase.
Days 1–30
Learn· Absorb context
Complete environment setup, read every relevant ADR, and ship Day 1 hello-world PR
Land 5 small PRs in the first 3 weeks to learn the review culture
Walk the system architecture with the tech lead and document gaps
Days 31–60
Contribute· Deliver value
Own a medium feature end-to-end with a written design doc and review checkpoints
Complete a full on-call rotation and document one new runbook
Establish a weekly engineering 1:1 cadence with at least 3 cross-team peers
Days 61–90
Lead· Own outcomes
Drive a technical initiative that touches at least 2 services or teams
Mentor a more junior engineer through a feature delivery
6 key stakeholders mapped
Week 1 preview
- Get dev environment running end-to-end and pass the local test suitelearning180m
- Read the team README and the last 6 months of architecture decision recordslearning120m
- Pair with on-call buddy to walk through the alert / incident playbooklearning60m
- Ship a one-line PR with proper code review etiquette to learn the flowshipping60m
- Schedule weekly 1:1s with manager, tech lead, and PMrelationships30m
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