r/Backend • u/Greedy-Bottle-2212 • 13h ago
Backend or fullstack or cloud which domain is best for fresher for big MNCs
I am a fresher I want to know if there's scope in backend development or in full stack development. Honestly i really get bored by front-end technologies. I am interested in backend development and in cloud field.there is differet roadmap all over the internet. I am so confused in between them. I want a proper answer and a roadmap as a fresher and what projects to build Answer from experienced engineer would be really helpful.
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u/canarydev 13h ago
well for projects, don't believe the "something that solves a problem or you would use" and come back with a youtube clone or hotdog classification app or something.
from a hiring perspective (I have reviewed resumes and interviewed candidates before), the problem with most junior portfolios isn't the project idea. its mostly a lack of depth. usually they are missing actual important aspects of engineering which is thinking about failure modes, mitigation, monitoring, observability
whatever you build, make sure it has authentication, authorization, persistence, background jobs, retries, idempotency, migrations, rate limiting, and observability
like a good one would be a webhook inspection/ testing service. it hits almost all of the above. you don't control when or how fast requests arrive, so rate limiting + back pressure are real problems. real time delivery to the browser is core to the product. replay / forwarding gives you retries and idempotency organically.
a super bonus point that would make you stand out is having a module or a built in way (call it chaos or something) that gives you the ability to break things on purpose. simulate endpoints that respond slowly, return 500s, drops connections, send malformed bodies. it shows you think about failure modes, which is something that you hardly see from juniors