What makes a software developer senior? What lies beyond senior? Do you have to become a manager to continue your career growth, or is there another way? As a junior developer, how do you take control of your destiny and make deliberate career progress? What can your manager do to help you grow as an engineer? And what are hiring managers evaluating when looking to fill a particular role?
While the job titles may differ across companies and countries, the essence of what we expect from engineers remains the same.

This talk brings together a software engineer and a manager, with close to 40 years of combined industry experience between them, to give you their perspectives on career growth for software engineers. We’ll try to define practical milestones to aim for on your career journey. And we’ll talk about how to set goals and expectations for ourselves, and enlist our managers and other engineers to help us level up.

Co-presenting with Josef Goldstein, where I give the software engineer perspective, while he gives the engineering manager perspective.