Designs, builds, and maintains software systems. Combines coding with system design, code review, and operational responsibility.
What follows is the matrix-derived read for this role at a representative cell. Your numbers will differ — compute your own Wagecard for the precise read on your geo, experience, salary, and task mix.
Lower = more human-leveraged. Mixed / Low confidence.
Run the numbers on your own Software Engineer role.
This read is a representative cell. Pick your own geo, experience, salary, and task mix to see the operational AI cost, market rate, and four-class distribution for your actual week — every number with its method and a confidence band.
Capability and human-advantage, task by task — every figure carries its method and refreshes when the matrix does.
Task
Capability
Reliability
Error cost
Human-advantage
Debug production incidents
50
45
5/5
60/100
On-call response
30
30
5/5
80/100
Code review
55
55
3/5
50/100
Write production code
78
70
3/5
25/100
Write documentation
80
75
2/5
25/100
Write tests
82
75
2/5
20/100
Design system architecture
45
40
5/5
75/100
Mentor junior engineers
20
20
5/5
90/100
Computed against capability matrix v1 · model v1-mvp · representative cell (Tier 2 / mid). Refreshed when the matrix refreshes. Open methodology at /methodology.
