Senior Software Engineers are expected to have expertise in both frontend and backend development, system design, DevOps, and best practices to build scalable applications.
Key tips include mastering frontend and backend, optimizing performance, prioritizing security measures, writing clean and testable code, embracing DevOps and CI/CD, designing scalable systems, and effectively mentoring and collaborating.
Senior engineers should focus on understanding how backend decisions impact frontend performance, optimizing at every level, and making security a priority by implementing best practices for both frontend and backend.
Additionally, they should write clean, maintainable, and testable code, adopt DevOps practices, design scalable systems, and effectively mentor and collaborate to excel in their role.