How to Become A SENIOR or Mid Level Developer

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So you've landed your first Developer job and you're starting to feel confident. And you start to wonder, "How can I move into a Mid or even Senior level role? Is there some sort of curriculum or path to take to get there? How can I put into motion to steps to achieving this career advancement?

In this video, I not only offer my thoughts on how one becomes a Mid or Senior level developer but a few other considerations that I think you'll find thought-provoking.

Give it a watch and let me know what you think!

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Hi Travis the only reason why companies don’t want to promote people to senior is so that they can pay them less.

From a technical perspective it does take time and learning, but again companies will obfuscate what it means so much to avoid paying you what you’re worth.

I also vehemently disagree with not being able to call yourself a senior. The point at which you can build an application from end to end without anyone’s help is the day you become a senior or lead. SWEs do not need someone else’s approval to prove that they can do something.

yolo_city
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I applied for mid-level since i have never worked for company and I am getting interviews

gabrielfono
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In the uk according to Google a Junior developer makes £30, 000 a year and a senior developer makes £96, 000 a year.
So yes its a no brainer.

Anonymous-wquy
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The core of my path to mid as Unity game developer were books like clean code, clean architecture and design patterns

-After learning the object oriented theory I started putting that into practice and really reflected on my code, separating the changes, trying to isolate that


-Through experience on projects I've learned on my mistakes and every project was better and better in terms of better abstraction, vocabulary etc.

-I've started communicating with managers, warning them about potential issues that might come, improve my communication skills, especially when we build complex systems like save system, player state-machines etc. The manager needs to know when a complex system is about to be built, so he/she can give you more time, you don't want to rush that. You might build that save system in 1, 2 days but later when more things are added to the game, you will suffer because of bad code, so always, talk to your manager.

- improve your object oriented vocabulary in means of technical terms

-improve your code sense by reading documentation or other's code

-When you start solving problems without guidance or mentorship and your managers take your advices serious and with respect, you will know that you're mid level programmer

stevancosovic
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I have 5 years experience and the only jobs people offer me are senior developer roles. But I've never been a senior developer.

SahajSoldier
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Agaain, you are the first youtuber that i ever enjoyed talking about coding videos

majdkhasib
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This meets me well, Travis! Thanks for the insight shared

bakarepeace
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do not forget after awhile money is the thing that make you to code the motivation and anything

mohammadmirzae
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If you want to be mid or senior developer then learn to read documentation because they all do while I'm here only learning youtube videos, udemy tutorials and blog posts

jaxongirrahimov
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Being able to foresee problems, architecture, different aspects of a project from development to deployment are all useful to become senior.

hmb
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I think the books clean code and design patterns help to grow. :) also I like the engineer career framework from dropbox.

Lumary
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Hey Travis, I loved your video because it told me what I needed to hear rather than what I wanted to here.
With that being said, I'd like to ask you if I need to be a mid-level developer in order to land a full-time remote role? I am a self-taught developer (business degree only) with about 1 year of experience with React, React Native, and TypeScript, but I'm still quite junior I'd say. As an American abroad, working for a local company in a developing country is a great learning exerience but the pay is probably only 1/4 of what I'd earn working remotely for a U.S. company.
I've heard/seen full-time remote roles are much more competitive than in-office roles. What kind of mentality should I have or what things should I try to do in order to land a full-time remote role while living abroad?

CameronChardukian
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Hi Travis, I agree with most of the stuff you said, thanks, good video 👍

alfredfx
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i don't really agree, senior positions are not always leading positions, we don't have junior positions, only senior and lead senior positions

Lkful
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Why mid? Worldwide remote working. Thats my goal as a junior now

asztonselecta
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Great video, would be nice to see example with SSO

cloud_architector
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Hey Travis! Thanks for the pearls of wisdom and clear thoughts on understanding and knowing what a jnr to snr developer role is.... Awesome 👨🏾‍💻🙂 Subs!!!✌️

lwa.dev
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You've totally changed since recording Chocolate Rain.

davidconnelly
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That's not always the case. Senior level engineers at different companies or teams may be doing a lot of coding too. What you described as a senior sounded more like a staff engineer or director of engineering. There's also senior lead engineers which are involved in many meetings but also do coding. It's a lot of work but if you are keeping up on your process and soft skills you can easily be a senior.

waffle
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Hi Travis! Thank you so much for always proving great content! I would love to combine my 20 years of awards, honors, outstanding customer service, sales and management experience with web development. I am 44 and I've been learning HTML, CSS, and JS over the last 6 months. What role would you recommend for a person like me to get into? Thank you!

Actor_Giovanni