Soft Skills for Senior Developers and How to Improve Them with Resources

Carolina Ramirez
Geek Culture
Published in
5 min readMar 17, 2023

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To become a Senior developer you will need more than technical skills and knowledge, maybe in an ideal scenario you will be alone with the computer, but in the real world, you will have to be part of a team, interact with stakeholders, explain technical stuff to non-technical people and so on.

So to become a Senior developer you will have to polish and improve your soft skills, the good news is that even the most introverted person can significantly improve with practice, so let’s take a look at what are the soft skills we need to become an excellent Senior developer.

Communication Skills

This is one of the most important soft skills a senior developer should have. You will need to be able to communicate effectively with clients, team members, and other stakeholders involved in the project. Clear communication can help you to set expectations, manage deadlines, and avoid misunderstandings that can lead to project delays or errors.

If this is something that you need to work on, here are some resources that might be helpful:

  1. First here’s a quiz to understand your communication style, its strong points, and its challenges

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Carolina Ramirez
Geek Culture

Frontend Developer | Tech writer and enthusiast | Always learning, always improving