New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Best way to explore career trajectory as a mid level engineer
Ask HN: Best way to explore career trajectory as a mid level engineer
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Hello, I'm currently working in a medium-sized AI startup (which is picking up steam). I'm currently a mid-level engineer in one of the product teams and I find myself in a bit of a search for meaning situation. I've had a bit of an eclectic path: Degree in Economics -> Data Analyst -> Data Engineer -> Backend Engineer As a data analyst, I got bored of making dashboards and went into data engineering since it was a growing field and, I believed, more challenging, after a while however I found myself a bit bored of making the Nth data pipeline and decided to try my hand at backend software engineering which I like a lot, but lately, I've been feeling that all I ever do is implement CRUD endpoints (data pipelines all over again) because I came in into an existing code base and there was nothing really left to do, but maintain it. I have an odd challenge here and there but life's become pretty dull, and looking at the senior devs their days are pretty much the same, except for a few more meetings. Now my director has started asking me about what are my plans in the company and if I want to go the staff engineering route or the management route. I love engineering and would not want to take the management route, but also do not want to be making GET/POST API's for the next 15 years. Since the start of my journey into IT I've always known what the next step is and what I need to do to accomplish it (data analyst -> learn SQL, python; date engineer -> cloud, spark, kafka; backend-engineer: K8s, Go, CI/CD, DS&A, API's). But now I feel a bit stuck, I'm still reading a lot of books, but I feel like I never get to use the more advanced things I've learned. I know that it might be a limitation of my company and I should probably try and find another position, but I am a bit afraid that going to another company would just be more of the same with a different flavored stack. Has anyone else been in a similar position, and how did you deal with it? How did you find a way into something more interesting? Or is it just Airflow pipelines and CRUD endpoints all the way down? Thank you
2 by Samisp | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello, I'm currently working in a medium-sized AI startup (which is picking up steam). I'm currently a mid-level engineer in one of the product teams and I find myself in a bit of a search for meaning situation. I've had a bit of an eclectic path: Degree in Economics -> Data Analyst -> Data Engineer -> Backend Engineer As a data analyst, I got bored of making dashboards and went into data engineering since it was a growing field and, I believed, more challenging, after a while however I found myself a bit bored of making the Nth data pipeline and decided to try my hand at backend software engineering which I like a lot, but lately, I've been feeling that all I ever do is implement CRUD endpoints (data pipelines all over again) because I came in into an existing code base and there was nothing really left to do, but maintain it. I have an odd challenge here and there but life's become pretty dull, and looking at the senior devs their days are pretty much the same, except for a few more meetings. Now my director has started asking me about what are my plans in the company and if I want to go the staff engineering route or the management route. I love engineering and would not want to take the management route, but also do not want to be making GET/POST API's for the next 15 years. Since the start of my journey into IT I've always known what the next step is and what I need to do to accomplish it (data analyst -> learn SQL, python; date engineer -> cloud, spark, kafka; backend-engineer: K8s, Go, CI/CD, DS&A, API's). But now I feel a bit stuck, I'm still reading a lot of books, but I feel like I never get to use the more advanced things I've learned. I know that it might be a limitation of my company and I should probably try and find another position, but I am a bit afraid that going to another company would just be more of the same with a different flavored stack. Has anyone else been in a similar position, and how did you deal with it? How did you find a way into something more interesting? Or is it just Airflow pipelines and CRUD endpoints all the way down? Thank you
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