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Full-Stack Engineer

Delivers complete web applications across user interfaces, services, persistence, testing, and deployment.

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Skill coverage

88%

7 of 8 skills

Course coverage

59%

19 of 32 courses

Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.

Role skills 8

Published coverage 7

Relevant courses 19

Capability map

Skills

Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.

01

Application development

4 capabilities

Frontend development

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Builds accessible browser interfaces with modern web technologies.

Course coverage

Angular Fundamentals

JavaScript Fundamentals, Web Development Fundamentals, Next.js Fundamentals, Nuxt Fundamentals, React Fundamentals, Svelte Fundamentals, Vue Fundamentals (planned) Backend development

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Builds server-side application and domain logic.

Course coverage

ASP.NET Core Fundamentals

Deno Fundamentals Django Fundamentals FastAPI Fundamentals Node.js Fundamentals, Flask Fundamentals, Ruby on Rails Fundamentals, Spring Boot Fundamentals (planned) API design

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Defines contracts between frontend, backend, and external systems.

Course coverage

API DesignFree

GraphQL Fundamentals Databases

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Models and persists application data using suitable database systems.

Course coverage

Database Fundamentals

SQL Fundamentals

02

Delivery and quality

4 capabilities

Testing

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Tests behavior across component, service, and user-journey boundaries.

Course coverage

End-to-End Testing, Integration Testing (planned)

Application security

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Protects browser, service, identity, and data boundaries.

Course coverage

Web Security

OWASP Top 10 Delivery

Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

Builds and deploys applications through automated pipelines.

Course coverage

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD AI-assisted development

Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

Uses AI coding assistants and agentic tools to accelerate development while verifying and owning their output.

Course coverage

Claude Code

Cursor GitHub Copilot Goose OpenAI Codex CLI Windsurf

Learning path

Relevant courses

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Core foundations

The concepts this role is built on.

API DesignFree

Database Fundamentals Web Security End-to-End Testing, Integration Testing, JavaScript Fundamentals, Node.js Fundamentals, Web Development Fundamentals (planned)

Supporting knowledge

Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.

Claude Code

Cursor GitHub Actions GitHub Copilot GitLab CI/CD Goose GraphQL Fundamentals OpenAI Codex CLI OWASP Top 10 SQL Fundamentals Windsurf

Specializations

Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.

Angular Fundamentals

ASP.NET Core Fundamentals Deno Fundamentals Django Fundamentals FastAPI Fundamentals Flask Fundamentals, Next.js Fundamentals, Nuxt Fundamentals, React Fundamentals, Ruby on Rails Fundamentals, Spring Boot Fundamentals, Svelte Fundamentals, Vue Fundamentals (planned)

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