I am currently using the Fira Code font for software development as it adds extra ligatures to the font to make reading common programming symbols a lot easier.
As a backup, I would suggest the Hack font.
However, instead of using these 2 fonts directly, I would recommend using the "Nerd" versions of them as it adds a bunch of icons into the fonts for use in terminals.
There is also the Powerline repo which has a bunch of common fonts patched with the icons used in terminals.