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What makes a software engineer senior?

By Zippia Team - Oct. 12, 2021

What makes a software engineer a senior is the number of years of experience working in a software engineer position.

Most companies follow a structure in how they promote. The usual route is to start as a junior software engineer and work that for at least six months up to 2 years. From there, you become a middle-level software engineer. Then after 2 to 4 years as a middle-level software engineer, you are eligible for a senior software engineer position.

The distinction between a junior software engineer and a senior software engineer can be boiled down to a one-word difference: junior software engineers build on the rails, Senior software engineers build the rails themselves.

In other words, junior software engineers will be building on the work already done by senior software engineers. Senior software engineers essentially multiply their work by creating technologies/architectures that enable other engineers to write better code.

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