A career path is an advancement roadmap for an organization's software engineer. It is a structured timeline with short- and long-term benchmarks. As the image depicts, career maps the route a software engineer takes from a lower-level position through successive occupations to arrive at their ultimate goal. After graduating as an engineer, a software developer can apply for a junior developer position. After completing several projects, a junior developer can be promoted as a senior developer and later to the technical leader. A technical leader can be later appointed as either software architecture or principle engineer or a team engineer, as the career path suggests.