Have you ever thought of build applications? Software? Well, this is for you. You will learn about becoming one and about their jobs, where they work and how much they get paid. We will see what kind of job it is and for what kind of people.
Software developers are creative, constant and need to adapt constantly. It's a job full of diversity where learning is a constant part of the journey. Being a software developer is like being at school for the rest of your life, but with much more opportunities. You can travel, work with an amazing team and develop things that you can be proud of. Ask another question to learn more!
Software developers, as their name suggest, are people that develop software programs. But it is also a little bit more than that. You rarely just think about a new software and create it. Firstly, the journey of building real software application and program is nearly always a team endeavor, so it will not only be you creating your ideas. Also, software developers rarely build application from scratch. They will add new features to already existing applications, they will fix bugs, they will learn new way of developing to improve the current application.
For a software developers currently in a process of development, they will be assigned to coding tasks to complete in the current sprint (from the Scrum framework : a sprint in software development is a time-box during a potentially releasable product increment is created). The day usually start with a meeting with the team where each member share their position in their work. After they go throw their stories, they review the code of other member stories and do test with testers.
Dependent on their situation, software developers may have to work in a schedule if they work actively with other members of the teams in a part of the application. Otherwise, they can choose any time of the day that best suits their need. The main thing is to respect the meetings and be constant in your work. They can work where ever there is a computer with WI-FI.
There is a lot of myth associated with what someone need to become a software developer. Let break them! In the center of the competences needed to become a software developer is programming. Yeah, you read it right, coding is a skill and you don't need to be a genius to learn it. You can compare basket ball player with a programmer : both do something that they are good and - we hope so - passionate at for a living. Another thing that is interesting and few know it is that you don't necessarily need a degree to become a software developer. In fact, there are a lot of developers without degrees. To become a software developer, you need to get skilled at programming and also learn software science to understand how it works and to build one.
The salary of a software developer varies depending on their enterprise, the experience and there value to their company. In Montreal, the average salary is about 70k$ a year and in Paris the average is 65k$ a year.
The key word, the motto in development is inspect and adapt. Therefore, a software developers will always need additional training to keep up with new technologies and new types of development. Outside of coding adaptation, it is good for software developers to learn efficient teamwork and good collaboration.
The biggest is procrastination. Ok, joking aside, you have to stay aware of some important things in the field of computing. First, everything move fast and if you don't keep up to date, it is possible not to be able to do the job requested anymore. Also, because of the constant evolution of this field, the job that your doing can be quickly irrelevant. Several big tech companies closed without anyone expecting it.
Impossible. The nearest we can get to this statement is that software developers will be help by artificial intelligence, but not replace. Artificial intelligence need developers to create them, and they are too expensive to be deployed on small interest companies like most of application development companies.
Because software development is still new, this continue to change. Depending on the country and the system, 55 to 65 seems to be a typical age to retire.
As you have certainly learnt something, I hope what you've learned will help you in a future decision-making.
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