Senior Software Engineer Bootcamp

A day long online bootcamp covering principles, practices, mindsets and other soft skills designed maximise your growth and impact.

Transitioning to a senior role is challenging. There is increased responsibility, less hand holding and an expectation to deliver sustained quality output. In most organisations today, engineers do not receive the mentorship and support needed to continue to grow professionally. They often end up working in small companies and start-ups reporting to a non-technical / delivery managers, who can not judge the quality of the work produced or guide them to elevate their practice. Sole focus is placed on timely delivery. Isolated, they take a long time to become quality engineers, seldom grow beyond programming languages and frameworks, and fail to develop the skills necessary for the next stage of their career towards greater impact.

This was perfectly fine before. There was enough challenge in that. Programming and dealing with the complexity of technology was and still is the biggest bottleneck. We saw traditional engineering teams grow and expand to become highly diverse. Entire industries grew to provide complementary support where these "developers" were lacking. Engineers that developed these skills saw themselves promoted to greater positions of responsibility and impact or was forced to develop these skills after promotion. However, given the progress made towards automation of programming, it is more important than ever for software engineers to be more well rounded, more of a generalist, more curious beyond technology, take a holistic approach in their practice and not just be glorified code cutters.

This bootcamp is a condensation of the most important principles, practices, mindsets and soft skills that will help you grow into a successful senior engineer and beyond. This is the type of guidance you would receive working with an experienced mentor through the first decade of your professional career. It will zero in on the most important aspects and point you to books, articles, videos and other resources required to learn and be a master of your craft. That takes very different shape to reading a book, watching a video or asking LLMs to teach you the topic. Your success, of-course, will depend on you. While it will make things as clear and and actionable as possible, it is up to you to lean in, further develop and apply the knowledge and skills. That is the sole aim of this course: to help you optimise what you do to maximise the success of everything you touch.