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Frontend Engineer
Builds the structure, interaction, performance and responsive behaviour of web and mobile interfaces.
AliasesFEフロントエンド
24,860 reads
GLOSSARY / 16 TERMS · 6 PENDING
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Backend Engineer
Owns server-side logic, data modelling, APIs and system reliability.
AliasesBA
21,340 reads
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Product Manager
Defines user problems, prioritises and ships solutions, accountable for outcomes.
AliasesPMプロダクトマネ
28,970 reads
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Data Analyst
Defines metrics, builds reports, diagnoses anomalies and evaluates experiments.
AliasesDA
19,520 reads
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UI / UX Designer
Owns information architecture, task flows, visual design and design systems, validated by user research.
Aliases
17,280 reads
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Algorithm Engineer
Builds models for prediction, recommendation and generation, and monitors drift in production.
AliasesML Engineer
22,310 reads
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DevOps Engineer
Connects build, deploy, monitoring, scaling and recovery so delivery is fast and reliable.
AliasesSRE
14,650 reads
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Growth Operations
Runs acquisition, activation, retention and monetisation experiments across the user lifecycle.
AliasesGrowth
16,890 reads
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Internet & Software
Software products and online services, defined by fast iteration and strong engineering practice.
AliasesSaaS
31,260 reads
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Artificial Intelligence
Spans compute, models, data and applications, with inference cost as a key constraint.
Aliases
35,840 reads
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Financial Technology
Where technology meets regulated finance; correctness and compliance outrank iteration speed.
AliasesFinTech
21,470 reads
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E-Commerce
Goods, traffic, checkout and fulfilment, with long chains and sharp traffic peaks.
AliasesEC
27,650 reads
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Healthcare
Highly regulated and specialised; digital work must respect clinical validity and privacy.
Aliases
15,980 reads
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Education & Training
Measured by learning outcomes and retention, serving learners, teachers and parents at once.
AliasesEdTech
14,320 reads
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Smart Manufacturing
Connects equipment, lines and business systems into a data loop where IT meets OT.
AliasesMES
12,640 reads
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New Energy
Storage, solar, charging and V2G, where hardware and software are tightly coupled.
Aliases
13,750 reads
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Candidate terms
Scoring
Prompt Engineer
New role created by LLM adoption
128votes
AI Product Ops
A new split between product and model evaluation
96votes
Data Governance Engineer
Metric and metadata governance becoming a dedicated role
84votes
Low-Altitude Economy
Emerging industry around drones and airspace
77votes
Silver Economy
Products and services for ageing populations
65votes
Compute Infrastructure Ops
GPU cluster ops splitting from DevOps
58votes
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