Full Stack Engineers Don’t Exist!

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Full Stack Engineers Don’t Exist!

There’s a problem with those thousands of jobs available for Full Stack Engineers or Developers on LinkedIn, like a unicorn, that person isn’t real. Insert spit-take, read it, then tell me what you think.

Stephen Walsh

5 min readNov 6, 2023

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There I said it, you might think this is a controversial or unpopular opinion but if you hear me out maybe you’ll agree with me, maybe not, but that’s what makes life worth living. I’ve believed this for a long time now, but it’s time to put a little more thought and time to flesh it out.

As for the term Developer or Engineer, yes technically they have different scopes but they mostly cover the same disciplines and principles, so I’ll use them interchangeably from here on out.

Defining a Full Stack Developer

To say something doesn’t exist, I should probably first define what people think it is. So Looking across the internet to

A full-stack developer is a developer or engineer who can build both the front end and the back end of a website. The front end (the parts of a website a user sees and interacts with) and the back end (the behind-the-scenes data storage and processing) require different skill sets. Since full-stack…

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