Full Stack Engineering
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Entry: Full Stack EngineerIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Full Stack Engineer InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Full Stack EngineerIC1
- Full Stack EngineerIC2
- Senior Full Stack EngineerIC3
- Staff Full Stack EngineerIC4
- Principal Full Stack EngineerIC5
- Senior Principal Full Stack EngineerIC6
- Distinguished Full Stack EngineerIC7
- Fellow, Full Stack EngineeringIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: SFIA; Microsoft Careers; ONET; GitLab