The most senior developer title you've held No developer title yet — learning, or switching fields Intern Junior developer Developer / mid-level engineer Senior developer Lead / tech lead Staff engineer Architect / principal engineer Distinguished engineer / fellow
The biggest thing you've owned end-to-end Owned means yours to build, defend, and answer for — not just contributed to.
Course or personal-project exercises Small tasks in someone else's codebase Tickets and bugfixes, closely reviewed Features, start to finish A production system or service A team's codebase and its delivery A multi-team domain or platform Org-wide architecture or technical direction
The oversight your best work has needed Be honest — this is about how you've actually worked, not how you'd like to.
Pairing or close supervision Regular review of most of my work Occasional guidance on the hard parts I was the guidance — others' work came to me I set direction other developers follow
Years writing software professionally Under 1 1 – 3 4 – 7 8 – 12 13+
Where you've done real production work Pick all that apply.
Backend / APIs Frontend / web UI Full-stack product work Mobile Data engineering / analytics Machine learning / AI Infrastructure / DevOps / platform Embedded / systems Security
Environments you've shipped in Pick all that apply.
Startup (pre-product-market fit) Scale-up (growing fast) Enterprise / corporate Agency / consultancy Open source Freelance / solo
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