The path to seniority in software

How to become a Senior Software Developer?

Jose Maria Valera Reales
1 min readJun 8, 2022

We all have been junior developers at some point. This is easy to know because it’s at the very beginning of your carrier. Your responsibilities were narrowed down by other peers who were looking after you. Suddenly, at some point, after some months or years, you got your promotion or another job, where you weren’t a junior anymore, but a professional.

A professional (also known as middle) is something between junior and senior. You know how you are not a junior anymore, you know how to deliver value but yet you also have mixed feelings about seniority. You want to be a senior, but you don’t know how. There is no clear path to achieving this goal.

Wait for a second… there are actually two easy ways to get the senior title! You can get promoted as such in your company, or you can start a new position as a “senior” in another company, easy, right?

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Jose Maria Valera Reales

Aka: Chema. I love writing about stuff that I find interesting and bring some value to my life, so I can share them with you. https://chemaclass.com