Yes, there is such a thing as a full-stack engineer. They'll cost you a lot of money (or equity), but will spare you from herding an entire room of specialists

Yes, there is such a thing as a full-stack engineer. They'll cost you a lot of money (or equity), but will spare you from herding an entire room of specialists early on. As products and teams scale up, cross-stack expertise becomes far less valuable than domain expertise and institutional knowledge. This post also leaves off another area that I'd expect of a senior full-stack developer: Infrastructure/Ops.