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<\/span><\/a>Middle-Tier Engineer<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Middle-tier engineer roles are less common (it is much more common to have back-end engineers that work in the middle tier), but can be found in larger companies or teams working with large-scale software. Like back-end engineers, they also don\u2019t work on the user interface and instead are focused on being the glue between the back-end and front-end parts of the system. Typically middle-tier engineers are responsible for the core of the business logic. If software were a grocery store, back-end engineers would get the stock off the trucks, and middle-tier engineers would make sure that the right amount of items were put in the right place. That middle-end logic makes it not just a room full of groceries, but a system of groceries organized to make a proper grocery store. Generally the skills required for a middle-tier engineer overlap most with a back-end engineer, but the back-end engineer may have a bit more responsibility for the system or data storage of an application.<\/p>\n

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