Full Stack
Competent across frontend and backend. As a job requirement, increasingly means 'we're hiring one person for two jobs' — the engineering equivalent of wearing many hats.
Heard in the wild
“They want a full-stack dev who also does DevOps and 'some design.'”
Tone check: Technical
Real full-stack engineers exist. Job posts wanting full-stack-plus-four-other-things want three hires on one salary.