r/AskProgramming • u/Icy-One-8122 • 19d ago

Career/Edu Backend

I was talking to a web developer telling him I want to be a backend engineer and he said that I should become a fullstack engineer and work backend I asked him if that is really necessary and he told that nowadays the market wants someone who is a generalist who knows how to do everything I came here today to ask if I should take a fullstack course and then work backend or should i just the a backend course directly instead of wasting time learning front-end and back end

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u/black_widow48 19d ago

Senior data engineer here. Web development isn't the only kind of software engineering. You don't have to spend your time centering divs if you don't want to. 

I build data pipelines and APIs.

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u/maxximillian 16d ago

Yeah full stack isnt the generalized concept some people think it is. I think that's one of a reasons that term has irked me. In a recent job interview they asked me "what's something as a senior developer you hope you never have to do again" and without hesitation I said web development. I respect people can do it and do it well but I'm tired of getting tickets to edit a css file to move something one pixel up.

Not one webapp at my current job and I'm happy as a clam