How To Grow As a Junior Developer To Senior | 5 Tips ​

By Travis Media

What does it actually take to move past being a junior developer?

It takes time ​

• Pair programming
• build and mature
• experience, break things

Develop your soft skills ​

• non technical skills every successful person needs
• good communication
• decision making
• teamwork
• dependability
• confidence
• talk to managers
• feature

Ideas

1. Be a reader
2. Speak more in standups
3. Find a Jr that wants to grow and practice explaining technical concepts to one another.
4. Contribute ideas
5. Speak solutions and not problems

Technical Skills ​

• Fundamentals
• breadth of experience (not depth)
• layers around ecosystem (cloud, security, sessions and jwt, docker, ci cd, scaling, auth)
• ssh, typescript, redis, performance, testing, code analysis

Decision Making ​

• make decisions, a call when needed. not always right
• provide options not excuses

Interaction ​

• Daily practice communication with team
• Be in on meetings and business talk
• Every day interact with team. Put it on your todo list. Build others up. Equip others.
• Brand as a leader.

Summary ​

1. It takes time.
2. Develop your soft skills.
3. Technical Skills
4. Decision Making
5. Interaction