Software Development & Engineering

Full Stack Developer

Take a feature from idea to production.

What you’ll work on

  • Build web application features across the React and PHP/Laravel stack
  • Work across database, backend, API, frontend, and deployment layers
  • Integrate third-party services such as payments, email, and analytics
  • Work directly with clients and team members to turn requirements into working features
  • Trace problems across the stack instead of only looking at one part of the system

Professional capabilities you’ll develop

  • Understanding a feature from requirement through deployment
  • Working across frontend and backend codebases
  • Database and API thinking
  • Integration and authentication fundamentals
  • Debugging across multiple layers of an application
  • End-to-end feature ownership
  • Communicating technical decisions clearly

Technologies you may work with

  • React
  • Laravel/PHP
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs
  • Authentication and integrations
  • CI/CD basics

Examples of real work

  • Client products involving frontend, backend, deployment, and iteration
  • MVP features built and developed for startup clients

Who this suits

You want to understand the whole product, not just one layer. You want to be able to say “I built that” and understand what it took to get it working.


Prerequisites

Prerequisites are a starting point, not a promise that you already know everything. You're expected to learn during the experience — but you also need enough foundation to participate in real work and take responsibility for your own progress.

Full Stack Developer

  • Basic programming fundamentals
  • Basic JavaScript knowledge
  • Basic understanding of HTML/CSS
  • Basic database and SQL knowledge
  • Familiarity with Git
  • Some exposure to either frontend or backend development

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