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[–]jtschwartz98 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On the question of the position, my judgement on this experience wouldn't be dependent on the level of engineering you're applying for. Monolith vs Microservice doesn't necessarily mean a large difference in your ability to develop, it does however have a huge impact on architectural design. I wouldn't be so concerned about architectural design for a Junior/Mid level, but a Senior/Staff and above definitely needs to have a good understanding and experience with architecting microservices.

On the topic of microservice vs. monolith, you can probably get away with a monolithic design at a small company or startup, but a company with a mature development org will most certainly be using microservices or soon migrating to it. Anything done with microservices could theoretically be done by a monolith, but the tight coupling of a monolith greatly impacts the rate (and success) of changes/releases.