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Jokes aside, almost every startup needs a front-end developer, most often with little domain-specific knowledge. I assume Web Devs at NASA or SpaceX don't have
by didymospl 9y ago
Jokes aside, almost every startup needs a front-end developer, most often with little domain-specific knowledge. I assume Web Devs at NASA or SpaceX don't have a degree in aerospace engineering. Is there something wrong with that?
- PeterisP 9y agoIn certain industries, including this one, you do need a very peculiar type of front-end developers. In finance, you'd prefer a front-end to be implemented by someone who's good at security and poor at the actual UX instead of someone who's great at UX but unskilled or sloppy at security, just as in medicine you don't want anyone with little domain-specific knowledge nowhere near your device user interfaces or even writing/translating labels on them.
- didymospl 9y agoYou might be right regarding startups where developers must wear many hats but I wouldn't agree it applies to these "vulnerable" industries as a whole. E.g. my experience in one of the major banks was exactly the opposite. There was a separate security team who created authorization and authentication libraries for FE and BE(extensions of Spring Security, Angular/React etc.), forbade other developers from coming up with any custom security solutions and constantly performed audits of the applications and infrastructure. I didn't like it but it worked flawlessly for the bank.