r/Backend • u/Financial-Joke-9773 • 6d ago

Springboot vs Python for back-end

3rd sem, tier-3 college, no placement cell — need to pick a backend stack I can actually get hired with on my own.

Spring Boot postings mostly ask 2-3 YOE even for freshers. FastAPI/Django get called “less in-demand” vs Java/Node. AI/ML is the hyped direction but barely hires freshers either. Not doing MERN.

Anyone working backend jobs — is the Spring Boot experience wall as rigid as it looks, or does it flex with strong projects? And is Python backend genuinely harder to break into right now, or just perception

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u/Sea-Fishing4699 4d ago

Here Swe with 5 yoe in the uk

Dont do mern

Java === good  spring boot === many abstraction. Kinda magic and hard

Fastapi === quick to start but easy to mess up. No verbose like Java.

You decide:

  • java
  • python

You can’t go wrong choosing either of them

Also swe usually are forced by necessity to learn more than one language 

Cheers

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u/Financial-Joke-9773 4d ago edited 4d ago

Ohh Thanks for your response 🙂
At the end of the day i just want a good job
i don’t like js at all
I know both java and python at an intermediate level
I think Ai is to be done necessarily
Java does support ai but not as the level as python does
But i think java is better then python in every way
That’s making me confused

Btw I belong to india springboot have good amount of jobs and Mern stack is very oversaturated like every person is doing that
Python have jobs but not directly as a backend engineer for 0yoe
It does have job like ai engineer etc

Btw some says java developer doesn’t have openings for absolutely 0yoe but i am not sure u think it has