Full Stack Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011
Engineering · Established · in 15% of HN hiring posts · 146 open roles at 41 companies · median $226k · first seen Apr 2011
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago12 of 41 companies (top 12 shown)
| # | Company | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  OpenAI | 17 | |
| 2 |  Databricks | 14 | |
| 3 |  ClickHouse | 12 | |
| 4 |  Stripe | 12 | |
| 5 |  Affirm | 11 | |
| 6 |  Okta | 9 | |
| 7 |  Scale AI | 6 | |
| 8 |  Vanta | 6 | |
| 9 |  Discord | 5 | |
| 10 |  ElevenLabs | 4 | |
| 11 |  Abridge | 3 | |
| 12 |  GitLab | 3 |
Open roles
8 of 146; company pages list the rest
Snowflake
RobloxShare of Hacker News hiring posts
14,340 posts since Apr 2011 · -16% in 6 monthsSeptember 2026 24 of 256 postings, 9.4%
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About this title
Works across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.
Also counted: fullstack, full-stack developer
First sighting
Seattle Thinkfuse.com A bit about you: - Full-stack developer who really gives a shit - Preference for Rails & Javascript - You'd...
Median posted salary $226k from 71 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.