Developer profile

The following is a list of desired skills which a new junior developer should have.

Non-technical

• Team working
• Open Source philosophy (or even existing contributions to an Open Source project)

Tools

• Code version control software (Git)
• Github workflow (https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/)
• Issue tracking

Languages and platforms

• Web technologies: backend (REST API, database) and frontend development basics (UI, UIX)
• JavaScript (or NodeJS), with at least one JavaScript framework
• At least one other procedural language (Perl, Python, Java, Go, etc)

System

• Networking
• Linux
  • SSH access
  • BASH scripting basics
• Virtual machines basics
• Database

Wish list

• Testing (Unit testing and possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing)
• Web performance optimization
• Software packaging (e.g. RPM, APT)
• Application deployment