You call yourself a Senior Developer?

Once upon a time, Senior developer was the real role-model, a person that everyone looked up to, a developer that you seek for advice and wisdom. Nowadays, seniority is a synonym for large salaries and big egos.

Let’s have a trip down the memory lane and drift away from the money-driven mindset. Instead of that, let’s inspire you to be better developers who are fulfilled by knowledge, success, and accomplishments.

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1. You call yourself a Senior Developer?
   Antonio Perić-Mažar, Locasti
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   27.08.2021. - #phpsrb, Belgrade
   

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2. Antonio
   
   
   Perić-Mažar
   CEO @ Locasti
   c
   
   Co-founder @ Litt
   o
   
   Co-founder @ Tinel Meetu
   p
   
   t: @antonioperi
   c
   
   m: antonio@locastic.com
   

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3. https://www.iqvis.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Developers.jpg
   

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4. How do you become a
   Senior developer?
   

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5. How do you become a
   Senior developer
   ?
   
   

   In year and a half?

   

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6. How do you become a
   Senior developer
   ?
   
   

   In year and a half
   ?
   
   Full-stack?

   

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7. Salary!
   

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9. • 33% of projects are never complete
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   • 50% of projects fail to meet their goal
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   • 75% of execs expect their project to fail
   The aftermath
   

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11. https://thevaluable.dev/software-developer-titles-junior-senior/
    

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12. https://thenextweb.com/news/why-these-developer-job-titles-are-ridiculous-and-shouldnt-exist-syndication
    

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13. A title with no of
    fi
    cial/
    standardized de
    fi
    nition is
    useless.
    

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14. Titles are only useful
    when changing jobs.
    

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16. Junior developer
    

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18. • Focus should be trying your best to lear
    n
    
    • Needs directio
    n
    
    • Needs supervisio
    n
    
    • Needs mentorin
    g
    
    • You can still be a junior even after a decade in the industry
    Junior developer
    

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19. A junior developer is
    code focused, not
    development focused,
    and doesn’t understand
    the distinction.
    

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20. Junior developers are
    not responsible for the
    projects!
    

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21. Intermediate developer
    

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22. On the mission of finding
    the Right way of building
    the software
    

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24. • They understand project, goals and teamwor
    k
    
    • They can estimate thing
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    • They can participate in improving things and process around the projec
    t
    
    • Systems built by intermediate will work far longer, but will lead to some sort of
    disaster
    
    
    • The sad fact is that vast majority thinks they are senior developers
    Intermediate developer
    

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25. They can be trusted to
    raise issues of code
    design, and play a
    valuable role in design
    discussions. They are
    also the “workhorses” of
    the dev team.
    
    
    

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26. Senior developer
    

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27. • They wrote under and over designed systems. And both failed
    .
    
    • They are solving issues -
    fi
    re
    fi
    ghter
    s
    
    • Hates complexity and it is obsessed with simplicity
    They know how failure
    looks like
    

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28. A high-level
    understanding of how
    systems work

    (closed systems, design
    patterns, why, how, not
    hype-driven)
    

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29. They fully understand
    that their job is not just
    writing code but solving
    problems
    .
    
    

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30. Knowledge about the
    business' problem is
    essential!
    

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31. They fully understand
    context when applying
    theory!
    

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32. There is no “right way”
    to build software.
    

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33. The only way to build
    good software is by
    adapting theory to
    fi
    t the
    needs of the client,
    budget, codebase, team,
    tools, and organization
    .
    
    

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34. https://www.datocms-assets.com/7756/1579270413-soft-skills.png
    

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35. Core skills not soft skills!
    

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36. Your team members are
    humans too…
    

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38. Your team members are
    humans too
    …
    
    Teamwork. Be nice. Care.
    

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39. Making other humans in
    the team better!
    

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40. Be the senior you needed
    when you were a junior.
    

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41. Being able to
    communicate clearly in
    business language - not
    tech jargon - with
    business people / non-
    technical co-workers
    .
    
    

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43. They understand it is not
    about them, but about
    customers.
    

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44. Old people in the
    Industry?
    

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46. "The most important skill in the future will
    be the ability to "connect the dots" in your
    own way!" - Fabio Moioli
    

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47. “You can know all the cool functional
    programming techniques in the world, but if
    you are unable to communicate well with your
    team, or you are not able to focus on
    delivering actual value to a customer, you are
    not a senior developer.”
    

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48. Thank you!
    

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49. Questions?
    Antonio Perić-Maža
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    t: @antonioperi
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    m: antonio@locastic.com
    

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