Engineering video
1:18 · 3 August 2025
In the speaker’s explanation, front-end positions have become scarce with intense competition, where roles are increasingly asking for full-stack skills, senior levels, and infrastructure knowledge like server-side rendering.
Hear it at 0:00 →So what you can already observe if you're a front-end developer looking for a position right now or you're checking the market is that there are fewer front-end jobs and more people more front-end engineers competition is insane. What's more, even if some jobs are labeled as front end, they are actually asking for full stack skills. And finally, most of them, most of the front-end jobs, if you go to LinkedIn or indeed.com, you'll see that a lot of them are asking for senior lead or staff level. So mid-level jobs and junior jobs in the front end are basically almost gone. So why is this happening? Why are
pure front-end positions going away? Well, first of all, front end was where most people started. And I would estimate about 80% of the any boot camp syllabus was actually front end. Front end was very accessible. On top of that, front end was victim of hyper specialization. You had these developers who were hired by big companies in the past. you know they spent six months working on a simple button. Another factor is that front-end tech slowly moved into the full stack. You know things like SSR, serverside rendering came up. Then we had Nex.js. Then we had more and more infrastructure topics that
were involved uh with the front end. Meaning that front engineers little by little had to know more and more back
