Developer profile

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Giacomo Sanchietti edited this page May 27, 2021 · 1 revision

The following is a list of desired skills which a new junior developer should have.

Non-technical

Team working
Open Source philosophy (or even existing contributions to an Open Source project)

Tools

Code version control software (Git)
Github workflow (https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/)
Issue tracking

Languages and platforms

Web technologies: backend (REST API, database) and frontend development basics (UI, UIX)
JavaScript (or NodeJS), with at least one JavaScript framework
At least one other procedural language (Perl, Python, Java, Go, etc)

System

Networking
Linux
- SSH access
- BASH scripting basics
Virtual machines basics
Database

Wish list

Testing (Unit testing and possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing)
Web performance optimization
Software packaging (e.g. RPM, APT)
Application deployment