What’s the Difference Between a Developer and a Programmer?
If you’re hiring technical staff for your company, you may be asking, what is the difference between a developer, a programmer in an engineer?
Does it matter which term you use in your job posting?
Working in IT staffing, we get asked this question a lot.
Developers have a larger scope of responsibility
In a nutshell, the basic difference between a developer and a programmer is the scope of their work.
Developers are more involved with and have a greater understanding of the full project scope.
Programmers are involved in a specific part of the project — coding.
Programmers are also known as engineers and coders
A programmer’s job includes writing code, testing, and fixing bugs.
A programmer converts a design into instructions that a computer can follow. These instructions are coded using one of many programming languages. They usually know several of these languages including Java, C#, PHP, Oracle, SQL Server, JavaScript, etc.
Specialized programmers focus on one type of programming. General programmers write code for many types of software.
Typically, programmers work in groups or teams under a senior programmer (team leader) that supervises their work.
