--- title: Why these developer job titles are ridiculous and... description: Software developers love titles, but many of them are useless. Some titles can give you an overview of your work if you hold them. Consultants should not do... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-these-developer-job-titles-are-ridiculous-and-shouldn-t-exist-zredm4utu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why these developer job titles are ridiculous and shouldn’t exist | daily.dev og:description: Software developers love titles, but many of them are useless. Some titles can give you an overview of your work if you hold them. Consultants should not do... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-these-developer-job-titles-are-ridiculous-and-shouldn-t-exist-zredm4utu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zRedm4uTU.png og:image:alt: Why these developer job titles are ridiculous and shouldn’t exist og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why these developer job titles are ridiculous and shouldn’t exist **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 16 min read · 16 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Software developers love titles, but many of them are useless. Some titles can give you an overview of your work if you hold them. Consultants should not do that though, but it’s another subject. The frontend developer deals with everything the end user can see or interact with. The backend developer puts together the gears and cogs of a software. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-these-developer-job-titles-are-ridiculous-and-shouldn-t-exist-zredm4utu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why these developer job titles are ridiculous and shouldn’t exist","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-these-developer-job-titles-are-ridiculous-and-shouldn-t-exist-zredm4utu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-these-developer-job-titles-are-ridiculous-and-shouldn-t-exist-zredm4utu"},"datePublished":"2020-09-14T06:02:34.446Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Software developers love titles, but many of them are useless. Some titles can give you an overview of your work if you hold them. Consultants should not do...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f3e7f0821a45a4955e3230264b3fd567","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f3e7f0821a45a4955e3230264b3fd567","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-these-developer-job-titles-are-ridiculous-and-shouldn-t-exist-zredm4utu","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":16},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"","timeRequired":"PT16M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Why these developer job titles are ridiculous and shouldn’t exist"}]} ```