In my company we see a senior as someone who can help increase the leverage of juniors. Another definition I’ve seen is “a senior developer is a developer who

In my company we see a senior as someone who can help increase the leverage of juniors. Another definition I’ve seen is “a senior developer is a developer who can turns other developers into senior developers” Whereas someone who can autonomously get shit done (and may or may not be good at the earlier definitions) is a “contractor”.