Front end software engineer

• More chance to train soft skills
  • More communication with Product manager, UI/UX designer and customers
  • Can learn communication skills
  • Can build up product mind set
• Keep screen shot or prototype on the features built
• Good front end engineer have their own design
  • Good technical skills
    • Don’t only focus on skills, also how to create good product
  • Can design product with good UI/UX
  • Design product which is beautiful and feasible to build

Back end software engineer

• Tech stack more mature
  • A lot of open source work available
• Need a lot of work on studying complex tools
• Engineer usually focus on a small scope, because backend is complex
  • Not a very good singal for long term

Full stack vs specialist

• Full-stack
  • Cover more topics, event non technical
    • Backend
      • Business logic
      • API design
    • DevOps
      • Automation
      • Cloud Service
    • Web frontend
    • Android/iOS App
    • UI/UX design
    • Requirement collection
    • Project management
  • Work in small company allow you to get experience on different topic
  • Easy to find job / change field
• Specialist
  • Focus on a few topic or specific area
    • Large scale
    • Business domain knowledge
  • Big company have resources to let you drill deeper in a topic
  • More difficult to find job

Engineer with sense of data

• Understand domain knowledge and product
  • Design the system for data in mind
    • Understand what need to be collect
    • Know how to collect data
    • Know what kind of report need to be generate
• Design data infrastructure base on the report need to be generate
  • Real time analysis vs Batch processing
  • Data volumn vs Database / Data analytic framework
• Roles of non-data engineers
  • Implement tracking correctly and accurately