How To Become a Self-taught Backend Developer

💻 Learn Frontend (20% off): https://scrimba.com/the-frontend-developer-career-path-c0j?via=donthedeveloper ⚙️ Learn Backend (25% off): https://boot.dev/?promo=DONTHEDEVELOPER 🤖 Learn AI Engineering (20% off): https://scrimba.com/the-ai-engineer-path-c02v?via=donthedeveloper 🐱 Learn NestJS (free) - https://scrimba.com/nestjs-c0n7djgjma?via=donthedeveloper 🧠 Advanced Coding (40% off) - https://app.codecrafters.io/join?via=donthedeveloper 👥 1 on 1 Mentorship - https://calendly.com/donthedeveloper/coaching 👁️🗨️ Join Discord - https://discord.gg/TpQe2k8Ab3 🐦 Follow on X - https://x.com/thedonofcode 👾 Follow on Twitch - https://twitch.tv/donthedeveloper Disclaimer: Some product links are affiliate links which means if you buy something I'll receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. --------------------------------------------------- Everyone wants to know the perfect roadmap to becoming a backend developer. In this web development podcast episode, I invited on a senior software engineer, and I think we came up with something very close to that. Nick laid out a thoughtful, step by step roadmap to becoming a backend developer. If he had to become a backend developer all over again, this is exactly how he would do it. Topics/Questions: 0:00 - Intros 2:37 - What’s the day to day like as a backend developer? 8:50 - If you had to become a backend developer all over again, how would you do it? 54:28 - Final piece of advice for aspiring backend developers Host/Guest: Don Hansen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/donthedeveloper Nick Rodriguez - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickrodriguez80