Reddit reviews Advanced Apex Programming for Salesforce.com and Force.com

You are admin certified, how fluent in debugging are you? Take a look at this thread, I wish I had these loose goals put in front of me a few years ago.

Resources/ directions:

• Session on mastering dx cli from dreamforce 2017. Video at the bottom of the page.
  
• By far and away the best resource I have found on dx is this five part series. Particularly parts 2 +.
  
• Don't let the advanced in the title scare you. I waited to read this book till I was more advancded and had absorbed most of this info elsewhere. You are likely ready for it now.
  
• Pluralsight has some pretty good intro to dev courses for Salesforce.
  
• I think if you can develop good testing skills that will make you stand out. Testing code on the platform is one of the more difficult things to do well, attack that early.
  
• SFDC99 has a very good primer on testing in SF, it really only scratches the surface but has great step by step examples.
  
• fflib is hardcore and in many ways I am sorry you have to deal with it. It has it pros and cons but it's a whole to absorb. Check out the enterprise patterns in trailhead. I seem to recall seeing some old dreamforce presentations on the stack that helped break it down.
  
  Outside the technical what does this role entail? Is there any BA aspect to it? Clean, clear, testable code is often only half the battle as a SF dev.