You Don't Need a Tech Degree to Be a Senior Engineer

By Autumn Wright and Amanda Raymond from the CallRail team. We are two non-traditional engineers. One of us graduated from a bootcamp and worked under a mentor at a startup. One of us is a self-taught developer who learned on the job through a series of IT department positions. We’ve taken the long road and learned hard lessons on our way to our current positions as senior software engineers in an established and successful engineering org. Even though our paths are different, we’ve both experienced an evolution from learning to code to focusing on solving problems. In this chat, find out: What we wish we could go back in time and tell our junior developer selves What habits we’ve curated that have continued to serve us well What are the most meaningful facets of our work Common lessons from the past 5 years and what the next 5 years look like