---
title: "Quickly become a Senior engineer"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/quickly-become-a-senior-engineer-fltecx3sf
source_url: https://www.saiyangrowthletter.com/p/quickly-become-a-senior-engineer
type: article
source: "Saiyan Growth Letter"
published: 2024-05-14T05:58:49.148Z
updated: 2024-07-03T09:29:32.808Z
tags: ["career"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 97
comments: 10
language: en
---

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# Quickly become a Senior engineer

**[Saiyan Growth Letter](https://daily.dev/sources/saiyangrowthletter)** · 3 min read · 97 upvotes · 10 comments

## Summary

Learn how to quickly become a senior engineer by focusing on ownership and impact. Develop technical skills, be reliable, communicate effectively, and be a team player. Identify problems and take action to solve them. Work on tasks that have a real impact on customers and the team's success.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@painbringer** · 44 upvotes

> This isn't nearly enough - it might be good for a start, but people way too often forget that truly senior engineer needs maturity: both as an engineer and as a person. There are many people who have the title of Senior Engineer, but are missing many important traits of the truly senior engineer. To name a few things that senior engineer does:
> - mentoring younger members of the team
> - makes sure that the team is sticking to the process and adjusts the process when it is not suitable for the team.
> - does research and suggests ways to improve the project or the process itself
> - participates...

**@chandankrishnani1** · 4 upvotes

> The more quicker way is when your senior leaves .

**@moonhunter\_code** · 2 upvotes

> not working this link 😕
>
> ![image](https://res.cloudinary.com/daily-now/image/upload/s--SSHNN6UE--/f_auto/v1719632124/ugc/content_4012c645-2948-4b6f-b197-29e7ced3a7c6)

**@bogdan\_ac** · 2 upvotes

> Unfortunately i downvoted this post because of the misleading title. Second the domain is expired and post is not available.
> Third, like @painbringer pointed out, there is no quick way of become anything and particularly not a senior Engineer. I've been in the software industry for 10 years, and academically followed this career path since highschool.
>
> Recently i've seen a lot of posts like this one, and moreover youtube is overcrowded with people that not only overhype this profession but also do not paint the full picture -- If it's too simple to be true, chances are it it's not true --...

**@thierryrenematos** · 2 upvotes

> this post should be deleted just because of the title. no one becomes a senior quickly.

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