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After 10 years is there no avenue to move up the ladder?First off I'm not looking to hear what role you have available, instead I would like to know what kind of problems I will be solving.
I have been at my current company for going onto 10 years employed as a fullstack software developer.
The tech stack I currently use
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL
Java - Spring application
Perl - Mason
Angular
AWS
Docker
NodeJS
Python
I have also written a native Salesforce application for my employer just 2 year.s ago.
I also got experience with asp.net as I assisted with maintaining one of our public offerings.
Currently I'm also ranked at first position on www.kanbanboardgame.com and have been working in an agile environment for years.
Currently I don't feel like I'm being challenged anymore and am open to hear about new challenges out there.
The next step in the ladder appears to be going into management which is something I'm not interested in. I'm more of a hands-on type of person that loves to be technically challenged.After 10 years is there no avenue to move up the ladder?
100% agree. I was very unfulfilled as a regular "line of business" programmer. Our business currently operates on some combination of solving geospatial/computational geometry/ML problems and on a technical level, couldn't be happier.Generally speaking, you may want to look for more mathy, computer science, engineering, etc. type jobs. Almost everything that I’ve found challenging has fallen into these categories. (As a Dev closing in on 25 years, professional coding).