On being a Senior Software Engineer

SE means Software Engineer, Developer or Programmer.

It may sound shocking for some people, but: as a Software Engineer, you are not hired to code 100% of the time.

Companies hire you to solve problems. You happen to have SE skills. The code that you write is just the medium.

Most of the times, solving a problem to a SE, you need to:

• talk to a lot of people
• read a lot of code
• draw a diagram of very complex flows
• break down a large project
• plan such a large project
• estimate with little to no context
• the list goes on

And most important of all: thinking.

The best SEs I know are the ones that bring the most value to the business with the code that they write.