FoundationsCareer pathways
Software Engineer
Read, explain, and review code with the right words.
Opens the App Store. Set your North Star in the app.
Foundations
Vocabulary anchor
Head First Design Patterns: Singleton, Observer, Decorator, Factory, Adapter, Facade, Proxy, Iterator, Composite, MVC.
At work
New hires learn the team's language; seniors use it to mentor and review.
Year 1 compensation
$150K-$195K
Salary source: Levels.fyi · TC · US · 2025-2026
Journey terms
Terms on this pathway
Ten curated terms. Master them in Journey.
- Singleton
- Observer
- Adapter
- Factory Method
- Code Review
- Dependency Inversion
- Open-Closed Principle
- Composition Over Inheritance
- Abstract Factory
- Program to Interface
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