#front-end engineer

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, full-stack development has become one of the most sought-after skills in the industry. Companies across the globe are seeking developers who can handle both front-end and back-end operations to create dynamic, efficient, and scalable web applications. At TechMinds Academy, we recognize the immense potential of this field and offer a comprehensive Full-Stack Development course centered around the powerful MERN stack.

Our course is meticulously designed to equip learners with the expertise to become proficient full-stack developers. By mastering MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js, you will gain the skills necessary to build end-to-end applications, enhance user experiences, and secure your place in the competitive tech landscape.

In this blog, we’ll dive deep into the essence of full-stack development, explore the MERN stack’s components, and highlight how TechMinds Academy’s course can help you unlock your potential and achieve your career goals.

What is Full-Stack Development?

Full-stack development refers to the practice of building and managing the front-end (client side) and back-end (server side) of web applications. A full-stack developer possesses a versatile skill set that bridges the gap between user experience design and server-side logic, enabling seamless integration and operation of applications.

The Role of a Full-Stack Developer

A full-stack developer handles:

Front-End Development: This involves designing and implementing the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). Developers use frameworks like React.js or Angular to ensure the application is visually appealing and user-friendly.

Back-End Development: This focuses on managing databases, server-side logic, and application architecture. Technologies like Node.js and Express.js power these aspects.

Database Management: Storing and managing data is crucial for application functionality. Full-stack developers often use databases like MongoDB or MySQL.

Version Control and Deployment: They manage code versions using Git and deploy applications on cloud platforms like AWS, Heroku, or Netlify.

Why Learn Full-Stack Development?

High Demand in the Industry

The ability to work on both front-end and back-end development makes full-stack developers valuable assets for companies. Startups, enterprises, and tech giants are always on the lookout for professionals who can handle versatile roles and contribute to faster project delivery.

Career Opportunities and Growth

Full-stack development offers diverse career paths, such as:

Full-Stack Developer

Front-End Engineer

Back-End Engineer

Software Engineer

ĐH Công nghệ Thông tin hợp tác đào tạo nhân lực với Naver

Theo bản ghi nhớ, ĐH Công nghệ Thông tin UIT (ĐH Quốc gia TPHCM) và tập đoàn của Hàn Quốc sẽ hợp tác triển khai một số hoạt động đào tạo ngắn hạn nhằm cung cấp nguồn nhân lực CNTT chất lượng cao cho các đơn vị, tổ chức, doanh nghiệp trong và ngoài nước. UIT và Naver ký kết Biên bản ghi nhớ Hợp tác vào ngày 25/7/2022. Nguồn: Naver Trước mắt, ngay trong tháng 8 này, hai bên hợp tác tổ chức hai…

If you’re involved in the Sass community, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of front-end architect Mina Markham. She’s definitely known in the Dallas area for her work with Girl Develop it, Black Girls Code, and other non-profit organizations, and she’s currently working on the campaign staff for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton!

We talked about Mina’s journey as a designer, her love for giving back to the community, why she loves Sass, and the people that motivate and inspire her. Mina is a true testament to the power of hard work, and I’m really glad to have the chance to share her story. Enjoy!

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Here at Union Metrics we like to give our employees the chance to enrich themselves and their careers by attending a conference of their choice each year. Here’s Senior Front-End Engineer Ben Kimball’s experience at OpenVis, in his own words.

Our Senior Front-End Engineer Goes to OpenVis. 

Here at Union Metrics, we regularly need to make sense of large amounts of data, from millions of tweets to a stream of Instagram photos. While at the OpenVis Conference in Boston last week, Senior Front-End Engineer Ben Kimball caught one particularly eye-catching presentation by Ian Webster, who demonstrated a system for visualizing large data sets— and they don't come much larger than space! Asterank is a scientific and economic database of over 600,000 asteroids. It focuses on estimating the costs and rewards of mining asteroids. For example, you can use it to find the most valuable asteroid we know of (511 Davida, a chunk of nickel, cobalt, and iron 200 miles across worth roughly 27 million trillion US dollars) or the most cost-effective asteroid to mine (1999 JU3, $34.5 billion in profit which will be just 0.4 AU from Earth on July 24th of next year). You can also explore a visualization of discovered exoplanets, superimposed on our solar system. Most of them are closer to their sun than Earth is to ours. And then there's the Millenium Run, "the largest n-body supercomputer simulation ever," which traces the evolution of over 10 billion pieces of dark matter. You can fly through it. 

The takeaway? Even if you’re not working with giant flying space rocks, you can distill large amounts of data into something of value for your audience by concisely teaching them something they didn’t know before, and/or giving them a way to interact with the data to learn something new on their own. 

Almost two years ago, we launched the eBay Feed — a new way to browse and shop the amazing products available on the site. For the first time, you were able to personalize the home page and see exactly what you're interested in. Last fall, we made your feed more social by allowing you to follow other users and collections. We launched eBay Today, featuring relevant collections updated daily and curated by the talent from Bureau of Trade and other tastemakers.

In two years, we've taken the home page of eBay from this:

to this:

But we're not done yet.

The Feed and Today pages are great first steps towards building the future of social commerce, where we can show you highly relevant and engaging content that is always up to date with your interests and what's trending. And we need your help to take the next step.

We're looking for an outstanding front-end engineer with great design instincts and exceptional full stack and back-end engineers to work with us on the Home Page team in NYC. We’re a small team that's built a reputation at eBay for being a highly capable, high performing team with incredible talent across the board. Our technology stack includes Java and Spring with MongoDB/MySQL databases on the back-end, and HTML/LESS/jQuery and vanilla JavaScript in the front-end (with a little bit of Node.js).

Here are the details:

Front-End Engineer

On a day-to-day basis you would:

Work closely with an experienced product & design team to create beautiful, intuitive experiences in a high-visibility environment 

Use best practices to write clean, maintainable code for the project, and create a fast, elegant experience for customers 

Handle service calls efficiently and manage data representation for template rendering 

Own major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing 

Design and develop with an eye towards an internationalized, localized, and accessible experience for eBay customers worldwide

You should have:

Expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript 

Good knowledge of Java 

Gifted visual design sense and excellent taste 

Current and detailed knowledge of browser peculiarities and how to work around them 

Familiarity with source control, particularly Git 

A constant desire to improve and learn 

Ability to write reusable and maintainable code 

Self-motivation and an ability to get things done

Full Stack Engineer

On a day-to-day basis, you would:

Create robust, scalable APIs that support web, mobile web, and mobile applications 

Use best practices to write clean, maintainable code for the project, and create a fast, elegant experience for customers 

Handle service calls efficiently and manage data representation for template rendering 

Identify and address performance bottlenecks 

Use best practices to write code and setup processes that are easy to manage and maintain 

Be responsible for major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing

You should have:

Expertise in Java 

Proficient understanding of databases in a large web application, especially MySQL 

Talented abilities with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript 

Knowledge of browser peculiarities and how to work around them 

Familiarity with source control, particularly Git 

A constant desire to improve and learn 

Ability to write reusable and maintainable code 

Self-motivation and ability to get things done

Back-End Engineer

On a day-to-day basis you would:

Create robust, scalable APIs that support web, mobile web, and mobile applications 

Design and implement algorithms to increase relevancy of the Feed 

Use best practices to write clean, maintainable code for the project 

Identify and address performance bottlenecks 

Use best practices to write code and setup processes that are easy to manage and maintain 

Be responsible for major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing 

You should have:

Expertise in Java 

Proficient understanding of databases in a large web application, especially MySQL 

Solid intuition on what makes good RESTful services 

Familiarity with source control, particularly Git 

A constant desire to improve and learn 

Ability to write reusable and maintainable code 

Self-motivation and an ability to get things done 

We’re located at eBay’s new and growing Chelsea office, where we have got some great perks: free lunch on Tuesday, yoga twice a week, plus abundant snacks, a fridge full of beer, massages, and old school tabletop entertainment. We’re also the proud hosts of Friends of eBay and several different tech meetups every month, including the MongoDB NYC, Hack and Tell, NYC Python, and MakeIt NYC.

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Hiring Front-End Engineers

When I started at YouTube nearly three and a half years ago, there was only one full-time web developer (and one other web developer who, shortly before I started, transitioned into product management). Needless to say, there were plenty of things to work on the moment I walked through the door. In fact, the first order of business was to set to work recruiting our third full-time web developer.  By the time I left YouTube in August, 2010, I had been introduced to hundreds of potential candidates. I reviewed resumes, held phone screens, gave onsite interviews, worked with potential acquisitions, recruited at conferences, and generally socialized with a wide assortment of technology geeks. Despite all of this work and our desperate need for front-end engineers, I would estimate that only 3-5% of the candidates I interacted with ever made it to an offer letter.  It would be easy to blame this situation on an overly selective hiring process, but I do not believe this to be the case. Rather, the problem it seemed was a systemic misunderstanding as to what characteristics make for a top-level web developer and where to look for those types of candidates. The types of candidates that we would be asked to evaluate were most often excellent engineers, but simply the wrong people for the job.  Here are my observations on what to look for in potential candidates. These are generalizations based on experiences I have had. Of course there will be plenty of exceptions out there. 1.) Good front-end engineers rarely have a computer science degree. It certainly does not hurt to have one, but it just does not happen that often. Some of the best web developers I interviewed, and helped hire, barely had a degree that resembled anything close to computer science. Most of them were self-taught, building websites for family members and friends, long before they ever entered college. It was a hobby they did in their spare time and then realized somewhere early on that they could build a career out of it. A lot of them came from other disciplines, such as computer graphics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, information systems, graphic design, printing, and even packaging science. 2.) Good front-end engineers cannot be forged from back-end engineers. A prevailing sentiment for quite some time was "why hire a specialist front-end engineer when we can hire a generalist back-end engineer and train them in front-end technologies?" Unfortunately, it proved not so simple. While back-end engineers can quite easily pick up the languages and semantics, their talents tend to work against them when it comes to the front-end. Good back-end engineers work to create solutions that are definitive, measurable, testable, predictable, reproducible and stable. The consumer web rarely affords you any of these noble aims and any lofty attempts to ignore this fact will only lead to eventual insanity. The back-end engineers that break the mold and do eventually transition into becoming good front-end engineers usually have some kind of alternate background that facilitates the jump.  3.) Good front-end engineers list Javascript on their resume, not jQuery. I do not mean to pick on jQuery, but it certainly was the most popular Javascript library referenced on resumes from my experiences. Bad front-end engineers are dependent on jQuery and other libraries. Good front-end engineers make use of libraries like jQuery to empower themselves, but are not beholden to them. About a month in, I scrapped nearly all of my interview questions for just one Javascript problem: 

A div with an id of 'slideshow' contains five images, the first of which is shown and the others are hidden using a display style of none. Using Javascript, create a simple slideshow that cycles through the images, displaying each image for three seconds at a time, looping back to the first image when the end is reached. You cannot use jQuery or any other library.

Memolane is a fast-growing and innovative startup (SXSWi thinks so too!) and we are looking to expand our team. Right now we are looking to add a Senior Front-End Engineer and a Senior Back-End Engineer to our team.  If you think you’d be a great fit for the job or if you know someone who you can recommend for either position let us know. There is a very nice bottle of Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 1998 Champagne waiting for the friend of Memolane who connects us with our new hires.

We are looking for engineers with ninja-like skills in front-end and back-end development. If you can hit your enemy in the neck with a blow dart from a bamboo straw while submerged underwater, in stealth mode, from 15 feet away in Ruby or JS terms, then we want to meet you! You can read the full job descriptions here:

Senior Front-End Engineer

Senior Back-End Engineer

Perhaps you aren’t a front-end or back-end engineer? Send us your resume/cv and we’ll keep it on file for future job openings.

About Memolane

Memolane is a young company that works very closely together, and we are looking for stellar people to join our diverse mix of personalities to create an even more cohesive team. We are a focused and hard-working group that could be described as terrifically nerdy over-achievers in our own areas of expertise, but only because we are so passionate about what we have created. We are a bit spread out at the moment but very shortly we will all be in San Francisco at our new digs, and working together to create great things with Memolane. 

Memolane is comprised of a passionate international group (Danes, Danish expats, Americans, and an American expat) that enjoys geekery, humor, design, responsible beer and coffee connoisseurship, all types of baked goods, the latest and greatest in music/books/films/TV, and some of us like swimming in very cold (preferably iced-over) bodies of water. There are both Mac and Linux enthusiasts in our team, and we are equally divided among those who wear glasses and those who don’t. We use social media extensively, suffice it to say that there is a lot of turnover among the mayors of Memolane HQ, and you can follow your co-workers’ food/beverage adventures and vacations via the Instagram feed.