Career Options for Software Engineers

Career Options for Software Engineers

Worried what to do after choosing Computer or IT Engineering? Clearly, tensed about what would you end up doing post getting a degree in computer science or anything related to computers? Confused as to how each field here differs from the other? Not knowing the meaning and work behind each field and fumbling over what could be your forte?

Well, well, well, let us just say that you have been redirected to the correct post on this day, so thank your stars for it. This blog post is exactly what every software developer/engineer wishes to read before choosing what to do upon graduating. Here we have tried to cover each possible aspect/opportunity that is available for a software developer/engineer after getting a good degree for the same. So shall we begin?

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1. <h1> Front End Developer </h1> Front End Developers are that category of software engineers which design your web. These engineers write code that runs on your web browsers in order to display all the content that you see while browsing a particular site in a user-friendly manner. They are the “designers”. They design these using technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and many more. They are also better known as the “UI/UX Designers”. If you have a gist of the kind of experience a user would prefer and have an interest in meticulously crafting user interfaces of the project you work on, this might be your “cup of tea”.
2. setText(“Mobile Developers”) This category of engineers are mostly the ones that code for all the applications that you download from your Play Store or App Store on to your mobiles. They write codes for developing these apps for eg: Voice Recorders, Music Players, Messengers, etc. They work closely with designers and take keen concern in the ui development for their applications. They specialize on platforms like Android, iOS, flutter, etc.
3. myTest.text(“ Game Developers”) These developers write the code for games that we love to play each time we have a few minutes to spare and need instant recreation.Most of these specialize in different gaming frameworks or game engine like Unity, Unreal Engine, CryEngine, Corona SDK, SpritKit, etc. Different gaming frameworks help you create different games on different platforms. If you love to play games, are crazy for drawing or 3D graphics type of programming and are crazy behind the use of graphics or animation then this could be your call.
4. <?php echo “Back-End Developers”; ?> The code and processes that happens behind the screens are categorized under back-end development. These developers write the code for server-side development. They focus on manipulating database, different kind of APIs, the architecture of a system, scripting, etc. In order to become a back-end developer, you should have a good logical, analytical and problem-solving skill. You should also know a server-side programming language to use in your code. The problems faced here are very complex.
5. System.out.println(“Application Developers”) Application developers can make any kind of software to be used by consumers or a person. Application developers create internal tools to be used by big enterprises or companies or desktop programs that we use every day like PowerPoint, word processor, spreadsheet, etc. Applications developer use languages such as Java, C++ or Oracle to develop the applications.
6. Console.WriteLine(“Tools and Enterprise Software Developers”) These software developers create tools which are used within an organization. They do not commercially publish or sell it. These tools help the organization or other team members to make their job easy and fast. Enterprise developers need to have a deep understanding of the organization and their requirements.
7. plot(xlab= “Data Scientists”) The demand of data scientist is high in the market in comparison with other jobs. It is a huge and fast-growing area. Data scientists are highly paid but you need to be master in Machine Learning. Data scientists look through the data and come up with some patterns or trends. They also look through the data analytics problem and apply some algorithm or write programs to give some solution to the organization. The job role involves storing, manipulating or organizing the large or big amount of data. This can also be done if you have experience of working with some analytical tools like Tableau with SQL. Tableau does the analytical work and shows results faster. Tools like Power BI or d3js are used for data visualization that comes to aid of every data science engineer by helping them see their data graphically. You need to be good in machine learning and/or have knowledge about the analytical tools, mathematics and statistics. Python and R these two programming languages data scientists use widely in their job role. Every business involves a huge amount of data, so demand of data scientists is increasing day by day in industries.
8. check(QA/Test/Automation) QA/Test engineers are underrated engineers, but they are vital when it comes to testing software or finding a bug before launching the product in the market. These engineers develop software that tests other code. Many initial developers do not know how to test their code so they need to understand the importance of QA engineers in an organization especially in these such kinds of situations. QA engineers build tools for testing and they write automated tests to execute and verify the functionality and give us the result of software or product. If you like picking out flaws and mending the too, this is your way to fix it.
9. if..then{ Algorithms/Science Software Development} This field requires research and Ph.D. or at least a master’s degree. The job role involves reading many research papers, doing research every day to turn academic concepts and theories into real-life solutions. You need to come up with new algorithms or optimize an existing one. A good example is to think of a person who wrote google maps to go from one place to another in the shortest time possible. These computer researchers or scientists are generally employed by universities, banks or big companies like Microsoft or Google. It involves high quantitative problem-solving skill, optimization, fine-tuning, quantum computing and in-depth research.
10. sudo mount Embedded Engineers These programmers write very low-level code that powers the system. For e.g. a refrigerator, printer, oven or toaster kind of electronics items that require programmers to develop its functionality and make your life easier. These developers work on the real-time operating system and they write the code that actual hardware needs to function properly. They work closely with hardware engineers because they are the one who writes the device drivers. You need to have a good understanding of hardware and software aspects, knowledge of low level and high levels languages such as Java, XML, Perl, Python, Shell Scripting, C/C++, assembler and others. Qualcomm, Intel, Tata Elxsi, HCL Technologies hire embedded software engineers.
11. ls –Linux Kernels and OS Developers An operating system is needed to run any type of program on our computers. OS developers develop the operating software on which all our programs and processes run on. Managing how to schedule the different processes, switch between two processes, how to manage the file in the operating system and other tasks are an example of the tasks that developers work on.
12. print(“DevOps”) These engineers are kind of network or system administrator. The job role is to handle the whole infrastructure and all the engineering needs behind any company like what type of computers do we need, how to fix the security bug, how to back up the database every day. Companies hire these engineers when the system is too big and they need someone to manage and take the system responsibility completely. If you are good in Linux fundamentals, with a firm knowledge of any scripting language like Python, Ruby, Perl then this is your field but they rarely write code from scratch. They have an understanding of tools and technologies like source control (Git, Bitbucket, SVN), infrastructure automation (Puppet, Chef), Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
13. <html><?php echo “Full Stack Developers”; ?> </html> This is a common term used by the companies to hire developers who can work on both - front-end and back-end technology or web frameworks. They deal with databases, servers, front-end part and back- end part to build a complete product. You should have good knowledge of software engineering to build a product. They are good in a variety of skill set. Most of the companies hire developers who can have a different skill set to work on a product. Therefore, the demand for this skill is never low and you’ll be an all-rounder here.
14. javac Language/Compiler Developers Different languages are used to create applications but the people who created these actual languages are language/compiler developers. Someone created C or C++ or someone used C++ to create Python, so there are tons of languages and multiple ways to implement one language. We use Python or Ruby but engineers who created these languages really study fundamentals and organization of how computer language is actually structured. Compiler developers also write the code for the implementation of the compiler which converts these code to machine language so that a computer can understand. This field requires you to be well versed with the internal system implementation so that you could make or inherit a new language well.
15. print s=strcat(“Cloud Developers”); This is a recently introduced category in the bag today. Nowadays, most of the applications are on the cloud so the job role primarily consists of planning, designing and managing applications on the cloud. They set up the whole cloud infrastructure and maintain it too. You are required to have a degree in computer science and some certification of your skills with respect to the cloud coding. You should have knowledge about Linux, database, and cloud platforms. AWS (Amazon Web Service), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba these are some examples of cloud platforms.

The most vital point is no matter what field you choose to pursue your career, you will be put into three categories – employee, freelancer or entrepreneur. At some point, mostly all the firms tell you “No more code” and after gaining massive experience, they may shift you to management roles so that your experience could be of more use to the newer people joining the firm. Even then, some big tech-giant companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon hire technical people for special high – profile tech jobs. However, the right to choose always remains with you. We hope the above blog was helpful to an extent wherein the picture and the future opportunities get clearer to you. In case of any discrepancies, please feel free to reach out to us, we will be more than happy to help.