Starting from startups to large enterprise technology web technology professionals comes in all shapes and sizes and is a remarkable way to get ahead in a career especially given the fact that it’s mostly open source and it can be almost free to learn.
The most sought after talent is this area are the full stack developers, who have typically grown into this role by either specializing in the front end of the application that is visible to the customer or back end of the application that which is a data and storage engine of the application. The other relatively young but fastest growing area is that of designers and UX-UI engineers that are dedicated to viewing the application from the users point of view to increase their satisfaction.
In all of the above tracks with experience, you are likely to become engineering manager where you manage a small or large team of this engineering talent in the organization and potentially take a shot at becoming the CTO!