--- title: How To Become A Senior Developer In 3 Simple Steps description: Developers need to transcend themselves if they want to survive in the software industry. To effectively become a senior developer, you must develop a higher... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-become-a-senior-developer-in-3-simple-steps-tx-xawahv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How To Become A Senior Developer In 3 Simple Steps | daily.dev og:description: Developers need to transcend themselves if they want to survive in the software industry. To effectively become a senior developer, you must develop a higher... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-become-a-senior-developer-in-3-simple-steps-tx-xawahv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tX-XawaHv.png og:image:alt: How To Become A Senior Developer In 3 Simple Steps og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How To Become A Senior Developer In 3 Simple Steps **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 7 min read · 111 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Developers need to transcend themselves if they want to survive in the software industry. To effectively become a senior developer, you must develop a higher level of self-awareness, both technical and personal. Here are the fundamental lessons you need to learn to avoid mistakes to get to senior level. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@way2extreme** · 3 upvotes > I like it. Know what you don't know, go beyond making it work, and thinking in patterns. I think that's a pretty good summary. **@nedelcu** · 0 upvotes > Thanks for sharing! **@dansowaru** · 0 upvotes > Semantics is important to fast understanding of the code. Have a Clean Code approach always. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-become-a-senior-developer-in-3-simple-steps-tx-xawahv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How To Become A Senior Developer In 3 Simple Steps","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-become-a-senior-developer-in-3-simple-steps-tx-xawahv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-become-a-senior-developer-in-3-simple-steps-tx-xawahv"},"datePublished":"2021-11-05T13:20:25.952Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T04:04:14.367Z","description":"Developers need to transcend themselves if they want to survive in the software industry. 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Know what you don’t know, go beyond making it work, and thinking in patterns. I think that’s a pretty good summary.","datePublished":"2021-11-09T14:37:09.930Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tX-XawaHv#c-dDEDO8y7U","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rod Hartzell","url":"https://daily.dev/way2extreme","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/862497?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thanks for sharing!","datePublished":"2021-11-10T08:51:31.432Z","dateModified":"2021-11-10T09:18:45.726Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tX-XawaHv#c-PV9LHxJ4o","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dragos","url":"https://daily.dev/nedelcu","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GjMxhRO7MJMW1jxhSV9Lt-1_meiTqRhMOS-oQSiB0s=s100"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Semantics is important to fast understanding of the code. 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