I think your attitude is mostly right. As a junior developer, just having a senior developer who cares already means a lot. I am one and a half year into my fi

I think your attitude is mostly right. As a junior developer, just having a senior developer who cares already means a lot. I am one and a half year into my first job as a developer, after a late-career from marketing at 37yo. At the same time, I have a formal role as a mentor of two apprentices that are just starting to learn software development from scratch (a great program we have on our company). So I feel I understand both sides. One thing that is not good (but you can't change) is that the junior developers only have you to ask. I personally would not accept a job where there is only one senior developer. At least, you seem to have the right attitude, which is great! Tutoring on good development practices (TDD, pair, code reviews, code design, etc), rather than language syntax, is the right choice because that is hard to learn on your own. I wouldn't worry about the on-the-job learning being too shallow. The best case scenario for them is for them to feel productive, and not a burden. So if you are shipping things, it matters a lot. Even if you feel that they are not learning a lot from each topic. So try to mitigate the trade-off between education and productivity. Try to break the development tasks for them, in very small and clear pieces, so they know what they have to do in a way that any doubt they can google it and keep moving. That said, deep learning will be incredibly important in their careers. So also guide their learning time outside of work. They (as every developer) will have to reserve some time to study consistently outside of work. Try to guide what they are studying, by recommending books and courses. Your job here is to prioritize and give focus on what topics they are studying. There just too many choices. Too many topics, too many resources, too many channels, too many opinions to choose from. Set the topics yourself and guide them through what they should study. My summary: prepare everything so they can be the most productive (deliver value to the company) in the work hours and guide them through what they should study in more depth in the off-work hours.