Career going forward as a mid level engineer
Hey everyone, I'm a Melbourne based SWE with 2.5 YOE (1 YOE at F500 & 1.5 YOE at start up) with focus tech stack being TS + AWS + MongoDB (across the entire company).
I'm at a stage where I've done plenty for the company and team and no longer really finding meaningful work within the company and it seems like it will be like this towards the end of the year. A lot of repetitive work and working on minor feature and bug requests after some major releases.
The only thing I really want to focus on for the remainder of my time here would be
- learn the full architecture across all products (that were originally outside my scope)
- solidify my AI based workflow (haven't written a single line of code in a year)
- finish off some projects that I am currently planning
There are a few things that I want to finalise and I will be looking to start jumping ship towards the end of this year and start of next year, and wondering what are my options.
Here are some of my thoughts that I have right now.
- Since my tech stack is only across TS + AWS, I'm finding it hard to pass the resume stage for roles that need experience in Java, C#, Go etc (i.e. Canva), is there any way to jump these hurdles?
- Now that I'm not a new grad anymore, I'm assuming the interview process for mid level roles will be different from what I've experienced, what are some things I should focus on?
- My generic coding skill has rusted a lot due to Claude Code, will this become a problem when looking for jobs?
- If I want to pivot to AI Engineer roles, how complicated would it be?
- There just doesn't seem to be a lot of mid level roles in Melbourne, how has others experience with finding roles in Melbourne?
- Any experience finding roles in other countries (US, Europe, UK etc)
There some other WLB related things I would prefer but I will leave those out for now. Thanks!
Here (https://imgur.com/a/11MQ07F) is my resume if you want to see
