Alternative Careers for Software Engineers

A sales-focused role selling identity verification and fraud prevention SaaS solutions to enterprise clients in the DACH region, requiring technical understanding of IDnow's products and solutions to close deals and expand accounts.

A part-time customer success role focused on onboarding German e-commerce merchants, implementing feedback systems, and supporting Mollie's market expansion. Primary work involves customer communication, process design, and merchant support rather than coding.

Lead a regional customer success team for a fintech compliance software company, owning customer outcomes, team management, and contributing to global operational processes. Day-to-day involves managing customer relationships, leading a cross-functional team, and translating between executive strategy and frontline delivery.

Field sales role visiting restaurants to demonstrate and sell Saltz's B2B food sourcing marketplace. Involves prospecting, product demos, relationship building, and supporting customer onboarding with 10-15 meetings per week.

Field sales role visiting restaurants to demonstrate and sell a B2B food marketplace platform. You'll conduct 10-15 weekly in-person meetings with chefs and restaurant owners, manage their onboarding, and support their initial orders on the Saltz app.

Field sales role focused on acquiring restaurant customers for a B2B SaaS marketplace. You'll spend most of your time visiting restaurants, conducting product demos, and closing deals with chefs and restaurant managers.

Working with limehome's data team to analyze pricing data, build statistical/ML models, and design experiments that inform revenue strategy. Day-to-day involves data preparation, model development, visualization creation, and cross-functional collaboration with product and revenue teams.

Working student position in pre-sales for a real estate investment company, involving lead qualification, cold calling preparation, identifying seller interest, and managing initial client contact to set up sales opportunities.

Manage and optimize an organization's SAP HCM system landscape, handling process improvements, bug fixes, interface coordination, and user testing. Requires deep SAP expertise but minimal custom coding—primarily configuration, analysis, and stakeholder management.

Plan and manage physical infrastructure projects for military installations, using facilities management software and data analysis to develop solutions for power, HVAC, and space utilization across Pacific regions.

A partnerships manager role focused on building and maintaining business relationships with clients and partners. Involves identifying partnership opportunities, negotiating deals, and managing ongoing partner relationships to drive business growth.

Quality assurance role in food manufacturing focused on product safety testing, compliance, and process validation—leverages analytical and systematic thinking from software QA but applies it to physical product testing in a manufacturing environment.

Lead the design, implementation, and oversight of enterprise-scale observability platforms (logging, monitoring, tracing) across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Balance technical leadership with platform strategy, vendor management, and enabling other engineering teams.

Account management and business development role focused on growing revenue from a portfolio of advertiser clients. You'll manage client relationships, identify growth opportunities, and serve as the primary point of contact for 5-15 accounts, with success measured by top-line revenue growth rather than activity metrics.

You'll manage a portfolio of 5-15 advertiser accounts, driving revenue growth through relationship management and account expansion rather than coding. Day-to-day involves client communication, problem-solving for their needs, and owning the full lifecycle of account success.

Manage IT infrastructure, software updates, and data systems at oil drilling rigs, including network administration, equipment inventory, system troubleshooting, and coordination between field sites and remote operations centers.

Design and build security monitoring systems and tooling across the company's infrastructure stack, leading security discussions with engineering teams and investigating cyber threats to protect crypto platforms and user assets.

Build and deploy machine learning models and AI systems for insurance claims automation, working cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to turn data insights into business impact.

Turn business data into actionable insights and build ML/AI models that drive product decisions and automate claims processes. Work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to translate data analysis into measurable business impact.

Managing CRM platform operations and governance across Marshmallow's business, focusing on enabling teams to use the system effectively, improving customer communication strategies, and establishing processes/standards for how the platform is used organizationally.