Senior engineers build the right things, not just technically impressive ones. Before coding, understand why a feature matters, challenge requirements, and propose simpler alternatives that users will actually love. Expand your scope from individual tasks to team and organizational impact.
You're focusing on building the right things. One of the biggest indicators of seniority is that you understand the importance of building the right things. You focus not only on delivering a great technical solution, but you focus on creating solutions that the customers are going to love. You can build the greatest technical solution out there, but if the users are not going to use it, it won't mean much. You expand your view from technical solutions to business and product. You no longer just build straight from the requirements. Your challenge requirements and proposing simpler alternatives. My suggestions are: increase the scope of your work from your own tasks to the team organizational level. This ensures that you know and understand the big picture. Don't go straight into code when you're given a task. You want to understand the why behind it first. Be curious about the business and the product and learn more about it. Try to put yourself in the shoes of the users.
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