Alternative Careers for Software Engineers

Manage the delivery and coordination of technology assessment projects for enterprise clients, handling timelines, stakeholder communication, documentation reviews, and risk tracking alongside architects and specialists.

Organize and manage logistics for technology consulting engagements, including scheduling client meetings, tracking deliverables, maintaining documentation, and ensuring stakeholders stay aligned throughout projects.

Senior developer role focused on architecting and leading Shopify e-commerce platform migrations for major brands, with emphasis on solution design, technical strategy, and mentoring rather than individual coding.

Regional sales leadership role managing a team of sales representatives and team leads to drive B2B SaaS adoption of beauty industry management software across Paris and Île-de-France. Combines hands-on sales execution with team coaching and strategic account development.

Tech Lead role managing a team building point-of-sale and retail digital services, splitting time between technical leadership, architecture decisions, code reviews, and team mentorship rather than hands-on coding.

Support the Revenue team by gathering, analyzing, and reporting on business data to inform decision-making. Work with data sources and analytics tools to create insights rather than building software products.

Selling Kong's API platform to mid-market enterprise customers as the primary point of contact, building relationships, managing sales pipelines, and closing deals while collaborating with technical and post-sales teams.

Design Engineer role focused on creative studio tools and user experience, bridging design and engineering to build interfaces for AI-powered creative features. Involves prototyping, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration rather than core backend/infrastructure coding.

Build and manage People Operations systems, workflows, and compliance processes as an internal product. Focus on creating self-serve HR infrastructure, process optimization, and operational excellence rather than coding.

Internal quality assurance role for audit reports at a housing cooperative association, involving systematic review of financial reports for numerical consistency, plausibility, and correctness while maintaining quality standards and compliance requirements.

Lead complex infrastructure and coastal engineering projects from conception through delivery, managing interdisciplinary teams, budgets, timelines, and stakeholder communications while ensuring technical quality and regulatory compliance.

Student working student role focused on lead generation, qualification, and initial customer outreach for an industrial SaaS product. Involves research, email/phone prospecting, demo preparation, and CRM management with HubSpot.

Lead a new engineering team building a marketplace platform for the horticulture industry, focusing on team building, technical strategy, and cross-functional collaboration with product rather than hands-on coding.

Lead a newly-formed engineering team building the grower-facing experience for an agricultural B2B platform, setting technical direction, making architectural decisions, and developing team members alongside shipping features.

A part-time talent acquisition role focused on sourcing, profiling, and recruiting technical talent for the company. You'll spend your time identifying qualified candidates, crafting compelling outreach messages, and convincing engineers to join the team.

Support digitalization initiatives and process optimization projects at an industrial company, including IT system implementation planning, documentation creation, and workshop coordination. A working-student role that bridges technical understanding with business process improvement rather than direct coding.

This role involves identifying and pursuing new business opportunities for an enterprise monitoring platform, building relationships with prospects in security and industrial sectors, and driving revenue growth across UK and European markets. Day-to-day work includes prospecting, pitch preparation, client meetings, and deal closure.

Student worker supporting internal and client projects at a PropTech startup, handling project coordination, meeting logistics, documentation, and data management in their AI-powered platform.

Lead Agri-PV renewable energy projects from conception through permitting and delivery, coordinating with municipalities, farmers, and external partners while managing budgets, timelines, and regulatory compliance.

Evaluate and build quality assurance datasets for 3D building measurement algorithms, including auditing test data accuracy, finding edge cases, sourcing new datasets, and running benchmarking pipelines to assess algorithm performance.