[d--b]

My view is that senior devs do not roll out features for end users, they roll out features for other devs.

As a senior dev, your end-users are more junior devs. And the product you’re building is the Api you give them.

So a good senior dev will do what good product people do. Talk to their users, find where their pain points are, make sure they have the most delightful experience one can have, etc...

It’s like senior engineers in car factories. They’re not building the cars, they’re building the robots that build the robots that build the cars...

[jolmg]

Unfortunately, that view needs organizational support. If the stakeholders can't appreciate the work done because their perspective is that of an end-user, then a developer is going to have difficulties getting recognized for that type of work.

It's features that are rolled out for end-users the ones that have the most visibility.