Pour les développeurs de logiciels, le plus souvent, les titres de poste ne'signifient pas vraiment grand-chose.
Prenez par exemple ceux-ci :
- Développeur de logiciels
- Ingénieur de logiciels
- Développeur full-stack
Ces titres pourraient potentiellement représenter exactement le même poste et les mêmes fonctions !
Cela se résume généralement à la description du poste lui-même et à la façon dont l'entreprise considère ses différents niveaux de développeurs.
Mais lorsqu'il s'agit de développeurs " seniors " et " principaux ", il y a généralement une différence.
Senior Developer
A senior developer, in my view, is not marked by his title (of course), but by these traits:
- Very competent in the core technologies used in his/her organization
- Understands high-level architectural design and patterns
- Experience building "full" solutions
- Actively mentors intermediate and junior developers
The most important of these is the last.
Lead Developer
A lead developer has the abilities and skills of a senior developer. But more
The lead developer can act as a senior developer - mentoring, providing general design guidance and puts work into the foundation and early stages of a product's development.
Lead developers often:
- Aid in planning product development and timelines
- Provide feedback to marketing or sales teams
- Discuss and aid the CEO or top managers to make sure that the development team and technologies being selected are aligned with the business' goals and vision of the company.
This means lead developers require:
- Good communication skills
- Good understanding of the product
- Good understanding of the business problem the software is solving
- Good understanding of the field the software's users are part of (medical, HR, etc.)
- Understanding of other disciplines like management, product development, marketing, etc.