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What do you need to qualify as a software developer job like the one you mention?
No formal qualifications for myself. I was always interested in tinkering and stuff so just gravitated towards that.
To be honest though with undiagnosed adhd (at the time) I bounced around a lot of dead end jobs and got lucky landing a job at Apple where they kinda inspire you to reach your potential. They let me reduce hours to do a couple of bootcamps, more for the networking than the coding as I knew more than a lot of the tutors.
The industry is saturated right now though so it’s hard.
I qualified for my first dev job by being interested in programming, and knowing my way around the command line (Linux is best), git, vim, and Python. practicing with things like leetcode, advent of code, and making things with apps like pelican and pyxel is a great way to ease into it and tread water until you can get that first role.
just don't let it make you feel helpless. there's always going to be a lot that you don't know. taking a deep breath and accepting that is the way towards thriving.
Usually (but not always) a software related college degree and industry experience. If you don't have the latter, hobby projects and open source contributions help, as long as you can demonstrate it (ie: a repo)
Ymmv, the requirements depend on the company