What to do if you get stuck in your Mobile Developer career
At some point of your career you may feel that you can’t go any further. It looks like you’ve already advanced yourself as a developer, you know how to code properly, you know how to collaborate with your team using git, Jira and other tools and technics, you know how CI/CD works and, if you’re lucky to work in a mature company, you write unit and UI tests and know why you need them.
However you’ve been already doing that for a year or two and it seems like you’re not moving forward anymore. Some questions that are coming to your mind sound like “Should I go deeper in the tech stuff I use everyday?” or “Should I learn something new in the adjacent areas, like backend or CI/CD or Big Data?” or even “Should I start managing a team?”. I’ve been in the same situation few times and can suggest several approaches.
The first approach is a top to down one
You can imagine the target state first (it could be ideal person or a real primer) and then analyse what are the features the target state possesses and how you can reach the same state. Honestly, it’s very hard to imagine the target state and its features holistically since you are not on that level yet and you simply don’t know how to think about that level. Most likely you would notice the features you already have, but…
