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Northstar Engineering

Developer Onboarding

Welcome to Northstar Engineering. Your onboarding buddy is your first point of contact for setup questions.

First day

Section titled “First day”
  • Join the engineering chat channels and team calendar.
  • Enable multi-factor authentication.
  • Enrol your laptop in device management.
  • Clone the application repository.
  • Run the local test suite.

Local setup

Section titled “Local setup”
Terminal window
git clone https://example.invalid/northstar/orbit.git
cd orbit
npm install
npm run dev

First week

Section titled “First week”
  1. Read the architecture overview.
  2. Pair with an engineer from your product team.
  3. Deploy a documentation-only change.
  4. Join an incident-response walkthrough.
  5. Agree on a 30-day learning goal with your manager.