There should be another option - full stack development. I am quite sure that many developers love working on entire application stacks.
For example, today I added drag + drop image upload that posts directly to S3, but not without resizing the file to maximum dimensions of 800 x 600 first, and finally kicking off a Sidekiq job to generate all of the smaller thumbnails. Hard to say whether that was more front-end or back-end code.