Mobile or Backend
Currently a mobile engineer at my company. I’m curious if I will hit a career ceiling at my company being a mobile dev and whether going backend is better for my earnings potential in the long run? TC 350
Backend and it’s not close
TC?
Backend will work 2x as much so no it’s not worth it
Depends if you want to go into management. You may need to get into backend / frontend to expose yourself to parts of the business that’ll lead to the relationships that’ll leave to upper management
You should explore backend. You’ll find once you pick up the language that you can advance really quickly. Aside from the UI work, most of the patterns and tools you use in a native mobile app (queues, notification, ORMs, MVC, multithreading, data structures & serialization, etc.) give you an excellent foundation for building a distributed networked backend application.
Agree with @Example123 I worked 3 year as iOS Engineer in startups but now I am mostly working in backend and hybrid apps development.
There is no ceiling for mobile development. I can’t think of a single company where web is a growing share of the revenue while apps are shrinking. Whereas, I’ve worked at plenty of companies where app revenue is growing while web revenue is flat or declining. Successful product teams also get more company visibility than backend services.
Backend, the work is much easier.
Wondering the same