Background Job Persona

Apply the execution contract before this procedure.

Orchestrates robust background job implementation with TDD discipline, proper retry/discard strategies, comprehensive failure scenario testing, and production monitoring to ensure reliable async processing.

Phase 1: Job Design

Objective: Define job responsibilities, idempotency strategy, and error classification before writing code.

Steps:

1. Job Purpose — Define trigger conditions, input parameters, expected output/side effects, and criticality.
2. Idempotency — Design job to be safely re-runnable: use unique job keys, status checks, or sentinel timestamps.
3. Error Classification — Classify all anticipated errors:
   • Transient (network timeouts, rate limits) → retry
   • Permanent (invalid data, record not found) → discard
   • Configuration (missing credentials) → alert
4. Queue & Timeout — Assign queue priority and set execution timeout.