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The Full Stack Developer roadmap —from first project to senior offer

A five-stage path tuned for the Indian market — 10,200 open Full Stack Developer roles right now, salary band ₹5L – ₹35L. The detailed week-by-week curriculum is being authored and lands shortly. In the meantime here is the exact structure we are building, and the entry points that already work.

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Detailed roadmap content launching this month · last refreshed May 2026

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The five stages

Own the full product surface — frontend, backend and the database in between.

  1. Stage 1Months 0–2

    Foundations

    Full-stack is breadth + one strong vertical. Pick one stack and ship something every fortnight — TypeScript + React + Node is the safest bet for India product hiring.

    • TypeScript fluency on both sides of the wire; strict mode default
    • React + Next.js + a Node runtime (Hono / Express / Fastify)
    • Postgres fluency: schema design, joins, transactions, indexes
    Salary range₹5L – ₹13L
  2. Stage 2Months 2–5

    First job-ready skills

    Build one project that exercises every layer: auth, DB, API, frontend, deploy. Then iterate on it for 6 weeks instead of starting a new one.

    • One full-stack project: auth, Postgres, REST/RPC API, deployed, tested
    • Deploy on Fly.io / Render / Vercel with CI + preview environments
    • First open-source PR merged on a popular full-stack project
    Salary range₹5L – ₹13L
  3. Stage 3Months 5–10

    Real projects

    Three end-to-end products. Build for real users — even 50 is enough. The full-stack portfolio that gets product-company interviews is small but deployed.

    • Three shipped products with real users (auth, payments, notifications)
    • Add observability: logs, traces, errors (Sentry / Logflare / Axiom)
    • Pair-program weekly; cycle code-review giving + receiving
    Salary range₹13L – ₹17L
  4. Stage 4Year 2–3

    Specialisation

    Pick a side to lean on at senior level. Even "full-stack" engineers earn the most when they specialise in one half deeper — frontend platform or backend services.

    • Pick a depth track: Frontend Platform, Backend Services, or Product Engineering
    • Read + apply: Designing Data-Intensive Applications + Browser internals
    • Lead one cross-cutting feature end-to-end (FE + BE + infra)
    Salary range₹17L – ₹25L
  5. Stage 5Year 4+

    Senior trajectory

    Own a full product surface end-to-end. Senior full-stack at Razorpay / Cloudflare / JFrog / Salesforce maps to staff engineer territory in India product companies.

    • Lead one product-line architecture review with measurable scope
    • Mentor 2 juniors; influence FE + BE chapter standards
    • Senior loop prep: behavioural, system design (FE + BE), deep-dive
    Salary range₹25L – ₹35L

Put the roadmap to work

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