# The next career step for Senior Software Engineers (that isn’t management) - Host: [codewithoutrules.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/codewithoutrules.com/) - Saved: October 25, 2018 (2018-10-26T02:12:54Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d1848c5fba76/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d1848c5fba76.json ## What Jamie wrote Cool article and introduces an idea of going from Implementor, to Solver, to Finder as an engineer. I haven't heard this terminology used but I really like it! > As an Implementer, you’re an inexperienced programmer, and your tasks are defined by someone else: you just implement small, well-specified chunks of code… > > As you become more experienced, you become a Solver: are able to come up with solutions to less well-defined problems… > > Eventually you become a Finder: you begin identifying problems on your own and figuring out their underlying causes… That seems very compelling and valuable to frame the career advancement of engineers. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT77: Weekly Thing #77 / Oct 27, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/77/), Notable Links 📌 ## Saved the same week - [Meow Hash](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/60c16e3418ed/) (mollyrocket.com, October 25, 2018) - [How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups - ReadWrite](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9d304521886c/) (readwrite.com, October 25, 2018) - [How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ - The New York Times](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d1bcc1e969c1/) (nytimes.com, October 25, 2018) - [How to Write a Technical Paper: Structure and Style of the Epitome of your Research](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d39b49b44b31/) (pdfs.semanticscholar.org, October 25, 2018) - [The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/561b30c45da7/) (buzzfeednews.com, October 25, 2018) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/10/10/beyond-senior-software-engineer/