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Senior Developer

Developers with deep specialized knowledge and exhaustive experience that allow them to mentor their peers are titled Seniors. In addition, senior devs are also knowledgeable in the business domain they support. Their competency may even expand to help with marketing and overall business development. A senior developer will always think of what they are doing in terms of how much benefit it brings to the business.

Technical skillset and duties

  • deep specialized knowledge and exhaustive experience
  • mentor their peers
  • knowledgeable in the business domain they support
  • Their competency may even expand to help with marketing and overall business development
  • always think of what they are doing in terms of how much benefit it brings to the business
  • their job is to provide the best solutions to problems
  • a senior is trying to foresee the issue and resolve it before it happens
  • senior must think in advance about the system bottlenecks
  • keep in mind vulnerabilities and problems caused by the improper use of tools
  • leading a project
  • senior makes well-reasoned decisions about software design and implementation based on the knowledge of the best practices in the field
  • they are able to reflect on their work performance, analyze mistakes, and learn from them drawing the right conclusions
  • senior developers have transformed their expertise into intuition
  • intuit best practices from their broad range of experience with different roles, technologies, and situations
  • understands the business value behind the product
  • comfortable with multiple technologies
  • aiming at acquiring transferable knowledge that will allow them to recognize and write good code in any programming language
  • A seniors’ expertise allows them to write custom macros to optimize the workflow
  • A senior has written libraries to add more functionality or to automate the most frequent processes without having to write code for them
  • have enough knowledge to build their own custom framework
  • well-versed in database administration, performance, and index optimization
  • they do the delicate work of composing advanced select queries
  • they are familiar with the DB maintenance features, in particular, DB mirroring and DB replication
  • can replace slow cursor-based operations with much more efficient JOIN statements
  • Besides functional programming and OOP, they work with concurrent and logic languages
  • have had professional experience with more than 6 platforms
  • creating debuggers or other tools necessary to enhance the platform
  • brainstorm the right technological solutions to complex problems
  • take charge of the team, coordinating its workflow to consistently produce business value
  • A senior is the one providing guidance
  • have good soft skills while balancing between the client and the team

Experience

  • 5+ Years

Salary

  • 1550 - 3000 EUR

Will face one of this Test Task

  • TestTask 1
  • TestTask 2
  • TestTask 3

Vision

Seniors see the final goal — the problems that the finished application must solve. A long-term vision is a crucial point in bringing value to the end-user.