I would consider myself a generalist, but at the same time still say I'm a back-end dev as that is my focus and strength. I can't imagine what strength a 'gener

I would consider myself a generalist, but at the same time still say I'm a back-end dev as that is my focus and strength. I can't imagine what strength a 'generalist' brings that isn't covered by an experienced specialist (which gets breadth through experience) or a full-stack dev. Sounds maybe like a fullstack dev that also wants to own product research and development. A founder for a startup could fit. All teams need good problem solvers. There are what are called 'T'-shaped developers. What I would consider a generalist is merely a TT (or TTT-shaped, etc) ones having more experience. Another good area might be Data Scientist that work on problems and solutions without doing the work of figuring out all the implementation details (data engineers).