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I am biased towards backend and it’s because I see more opportunities there, especially since you want to compete globally. This is not about frontend vs backend which is better, but about where there are more opportunities which will in turn increase your chances. While I was researching for jobs with relocation support from my small apartment in Benin, Nigeria, I noticed a pattern. My primary source was LinkedIn. The majority of Nigerian engineers whose previous role was in a Nigerian company and current role in a company outside Nigeria were mostly in Europe. Netherlands and Germany seemed to have more numbers and it was in specific cities: Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. I mean direct jobs, not masters degree to job pipeline or menial jobs in between. Most of these people were also backend engineers. 1 or 2 out of 10 were frontend engineers. Those with PM or UI/UX Designer titles mostly had to do a degree first. This is what I observed. Again LinkedIn was the primary source and I could be wrong. At the time, I was doing everything from react to react native, and like many other devs, I thought learning JS, Java, Python, Golang and their respective web frameworks and libraries meant I was making progress or growing. My research results showed I was wasting my time spreading myself too thin. Most of the Nigerian devs who relocated with a job were hired at companies using Python or Java. I had to let go of JS ecosystem entirely. Of course there are few jobs requiring Node JS, but I’d rather focus on what has worked the most for others with a similar profile. After a while, I decided on Berlin and looked at job postings for mid level engineer positions. I noted the reoccurring skills in the various postings, I also compared my profile to the Nigerians before me who relocated with a job offer. I noticed a huge difference in how they presented themselves on LinkedIn, few of them had their CV in their LinkedIn page and I saw that I did not have the experience they had. To make up for the experience, I started working on personal projects. I created a study plan to fill the gaps. For nearly two years, the earliest I went to bed was between 1 to 2am. The gaps I had were mainly in system design. The typical Nigerian startup engineering culture does not leave room for engineers to develop the intuition and experience to design systems. It’s usually the PM anchoring an unproductive meeting were backend and frontend engineers do back and forths and then with inputs from designers about a feature. The arguments are mostly about implementation details of what the 'payload' should look like. There’s rarely any technical direction or strategy to support the OKRs (that’s if the company even have one). This means opportunities for mentorship are limited since there’s no true technical lead. People just build features and fix bugs week in week out. So how do you even have real world experience about replication and database redundancy? It’s one thing to read about CAP theorem or even memorise it and another thing to have actual practical knowledge and supporting experience to talk about it in a technical interview. If you go through my posts from early 2022, you’ll notice I had a monthly dump where I completed at least one Udemy course or read one book every month. If I had to do it again, I’d study chapter 1-9 of Designing Data Intensive Applications and build a distributed key value store to get practical experience with LSM Trees. After that I’ll study the vol 1 and vol 2 of System Design Interview: An Insider's perspective. It took me more than a year to truly feel like I was actually mid level in Germany. I bought and read most of these books on my way to where I am now.

Imagine a software engineer whose profile shows: => Enterprise system experience => Startup experience (building from 0 → production) => Production debugging experience => System design exposure => Ownership of major features/products => Experience collaborating with product, design, and business teams => Experience scaling systems for real users That should be YOU.

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Learning alone is possible. Learning with guidance is faster.... Mentors shorten the trial and error phase. They help you spot blind spots early, make better decisions, and avoid repeating the same mistakes for months.

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