As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs - eviltoast
  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
    6·
    8 months ago

    The reality is also, that development is so extremely diverse, that it’s hard to find umbrella-enough terms to describe a job.

    For example, I’m a senior software developer on paper.

    I’m not senior, not even 10 years job experience. But I seem to be rather good at what I’m doing, so I’m a senior now.

    I’m also hardly writing any code. I talk to customers about what they want their software to do, I talk to management about how many people I need, I review pull requests, I talk to junior devs about their problems, etc, etc. Maybe 10% of my time is actual code. But what title other than “developer” should I have?

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Maybe “software producer”? (a term I’ve never seen used anywhere but that sort of makes sense when you think about what a movie producer does, for example)

    • Sailing7@lemmy.ml
      2·
      8 months ago

      A few more titles that you will hate, but actually describe your role. You are in no sense just a senior developer.

      You are an

      • Architect
      • Solution Architect
      • Project Manager and Team Leader
      • Service Manager

      Which one fits best, you have to decide. But i would put this up on my resume if i had your responsibilities.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, I struggle with that.

        • I’m not allowed to be called an Architect because the Lead Architect only allows product people in the role, however I’m equivalent rank.
        • I spend way too much time doing project management, but I despise that
        • I don’t lead a specific team or have people but I set requirements for engineering and sometime borrow people from teams
        • I’m in the Quality Engineering organization but don’t do QA
        • some people think I’m a Build Engineer, and I do set some of their requirements
        • some think I’m AppSec, and I do try to fill their gaps and apply their work to the organization.

        Recently, maybe DevSecOps sounds most accurate, and I avoid talking rank so I don’t piss off that Prima Donna

      • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
        1·
        8 months ago

        It’s not a huge project (3-4 devs, including myself), there’s simply not enough to do for a dedicated architect. PM and SM are done by dedicated roles, but as a lead dev, I obviously have to play translator quite a bit.