Path to Senior Engineer Handbook

This repo has all the resources you need to reach Senior Software Engineer!

Table of contents

• Newsletters
• Books
• Courses
• Papers
• YouTube
• Podcasts
• Communities
• LinkedIn
• Platforms
• Helpful Tools
• Other catalogs

Newsletters

General software engineer growth

• High Growth Engineer
• The Developing Dev
• Level up software engineering
• Engineer’s Codex
• Coding Challenges
• EcZachly Data Engineering Newsletter
• Techlead Mentor
• The Caring Techie
• Refactoring
• Strategize Your Career
• Saiyan Growth Letter
• Software Design: Tidy First?
• Dev Interrupted
• Exaltitude Career Growth
• A Life Engineered

Staying up-to-date

• The Pragmatic Engineer
• TLDR
• Pointer.io
• Changelog News
• Hungry Minds

Frameworks and smart thinking

• Wes Kao's Newsletter
• Operator's Handbook
• Alex Brogan frameworks

System design

• System Design Newsletter
• Hello, World!
• Quastor
• ByteByteGo Newsletter
• Byte-Sized Design
• The Polymathic Engineer

Reliability engineering

• SRE Weekly
• Platform Engineering Weekly
• Alex Ewerlöf Notes/SRE

Leadership

• The Hybrid Hacker
• Leading Developers
• Engineering Leadership
• Addy Osmani (RSS Link)
• Irrational Exuberance
• Leadership Letters
• Blog for Engineering Managers

Web-dev specific

• TLDR Web Dev
• Frontend Focus
• Frontend Engineering
• Smashing Magazine
• Kent C Dodds
• Josh Comeau (RSS Link)
• Friday Front-end
• CSS Weekly
• Bytes.dev

Books

Communication, writing, relationships

• Crucial conversations
• Smart Brevity
• The Fine Art of Small Talk
• 92 ways to talk to anyone
• Connect: Building exceptional relationships with family, friends, and colleagues
• What got you here won’t get you there
• Communication for Engineers
• Thanks for the Feedback
• Just Listen: Discover the secret to getting through to absolutely anyone
• Simply Said: Communicating better at work and beyond
• Crucial influence
• Radical candor
• Engineering management for the rest of us
• Crucial accountability
• It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences
• On writing well
• The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

Storytelling

• Storyworthy

Career growth and promotions

• Omar Halabieh 90-day career blueprint
• Get Promoted
• StaffEng.com – Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles

Engineering

• A philosophy of software design
• Web scalability for startup engineers
• Collection - Grady Booch, Software architecture/design books
• The Concise TypeScript Book

Software engineer overall

• Software Engineer's Guidebook
• Engineers Survival Guide
• The Coding Career Handbook
• Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

System design

• Front End System Design Guidebook
• Awesome Front End System Design
• The System Design Primer

Leadership

• The Manager’s Path
• Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
• The Staff Engineer’s Path
• The Coaching Habit
• The Advice Trap
• The making of a manager
• Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager: How to Be the Leader Your Development Team Need

Persuasion and influence

• Influence: The psychology of persuasion
• Yes - 50 scientifically proven ways to be persuasive

Productivity

• The productivity project
• Make time

User experience

• Don’t make me think
• Refactoring UI

Thinking smarter

• Clear thinking
• Thinking fast and slow
• Super thinking: The big book of mental models
• The art of thinking clearly
• Thinking in systems

Courses

Top courses

• Mid-level to Senior Course by Jordan Cutler
• Career growth courses on JoinTaro
• Speedrun to Promotion by Steve Huynh
• Become a go-to expert on your team by Jordan Cutler
• Frontend System Design by Maxi Ferreira - Free
• Josh Comeau CSS course
• Josh Comeau React course
• Kent C Dodds Epic React
• Kent C Dodds Epic Web
• Bob Ziroll Learn React for Free
• Google Technical Writing

Recommended websites

• Frontendmasters subscription
• Udemy courses
• Educative subscription
• Pluralsight courses
• Udacity courses
• Coursera courses
• LinkedIn Learning
• Future Learn
• edX
• Microsoft Learn
• GreatFrontEnd
• Scrimba interactive courses
• KodeKloud
• Hyperskill
• LabEx
• InterviewLegend - breaks down what specific companies ask across coding, system design, and behavioral interviews, based on first-hand reports

Papers

• Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
• The Google File System
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database
• Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System

YouTube

Broad news and opinions in tech

• Theo - t3.gg
• Fireship
• ThePrimeTime / Primeagen

Senior+ soft skills

• A Life Engineered - Steve Huynh
• Exaltitude Career Growth
• LeadDev
• Lenny’s Podcast
• Charisma on Command

Frontend/CSS tips and tricks

• Kevin Powell
• Web Dev Simplified
• Matt Pocock (Typescript)
• Sam Selikoff

Productivity, side income, and personal growth

• Ali Abdaal
• Jeff Su
• Thomas Frank
• Matt D’Avella
• Clark Kegley

Podcasts

• Soft skills Podcast
• Staff Eng Podcast
• Frontend First Podcast
• The Changelog Podcast
• The Scrimba Podcast
• Developing Leadership
• John Maxwell Leadership Podcast

Communities

• Taro
• Exaltitude Engineering Leadership Community
• Small Bets Community
• GreatFrontend
• Theo - T3
• Frontend Mentor
• Kent C. Dodds Discord Community
• Tiger Abrodi's Little Software Planet
• Changelog Community
• Scrimba Discord Community
• ladderly.io
• Rands Leadership Community (Slack)

LinkedIn

• Jordan Cutler
• Gregor Ojstersek
• Gergely Orosz
• Nicola Ballotta
• Alex Chiou
• Rahul Pandey
• Caleb Mellas
• John Crickett
• Ryan Peterman
• Alex Xu
• Zach Wilson
• Wes Kao
• Omar Halabieh
• Raviraj Achar
• Irina Stanescu
• Richard Donovan
• Luca Rossi
• Anton Zaides
• Neo Kim
• Dallon Asnes
• Tiger Abrodi
• Daniel Moka
• Mads Brodt
• James Willett
• Anemari Fiser
• Mike Thornton
• Dariusz Sadowski
• Adrian Stanek
• Steven Syrek
• Doug Howard
• Casey Dai
• Petar Ivanov
• Alex Kliotzkin
• Nordine Hadi
• Yangshun Tay
• David Anderson
• Alexandre Zajac
• Jean Lee
• Akash Mukherjee

Platforms

General leveling up

• Codecrafters: Practice writing complex software (affiliate - 40% off) non-affiliate link version

Interview prep

Coding interview

• LeetCode
• NeetCode
• PyPup
• Codemia
• PracHub
• bugfree.ai

Mock interviews

• Pramp
• Hello Interview
• Interviewing IO
• IGotAnOffer
• MeetAPro
• Easyclimbtech
• Interview Kickstart
• AI Interview Coach

Job boards

• AI Dev Jobs - Job board focused on AI and machine learning engineering roles, with 7,400+ jobs from 400+ companies and a free REST API.
• Jobs in JS - Job board for JavaScript developers.

Helpful Tools

• WriteEdge for writing tech specs

Other catalogs

• Software Engineer's Library
• 16x Engineer