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Companies who are looking for Rust engineers usually do more heavy duty backend work or Blockchain. You can even try to pivot to embedded!
I doubled my salary and work finally with a great language!
Why do you want out? Sounds like you have a comfy, easy, copy+paste way to make a living with good income you can use to pursue serious passions - that's the dream. At the end of the day, it's just a job.
The vast majority of jobs out there in software development are CRUD applications. As you're well aware there is hardly anything novel required for these jobs other than domain expertise. As an engineer you're there to essentially do the busy work of gluing together frameworks and libraries. Even startups are rarely doing anything novel with software engineering, computing systems, etc. They're usually stumbling arou…
Of course, to get a specialization you have to become an expert. No one is going to pay you for that. There are more ways in than just out of university, but they typically require a lot of additional work/effort.
A buddy of mine always wanted to make games. He's done it successfully... after several years working on "normal" software in Big Tech, he successfully transitioned to the games industry and is now a graphics engine expert. Victory! But it took a long time to get there: he had to learn a LOT in his spare time, and then it's been ~10 years of crappy underpaid jobs (with multiple layoffs!) for him to finally build up enough industry cred to where he can do the work he loves and get paid well for it.
The project which has "less crud" is a weather related service.
I learned Rust (same background as you). This opened up a whole new set of companies. Companies who are looking for Rust engineers usually do more heavy duty backend work or Blockchain. You can even try to pivot to embedded! I doubled my salary and work finally with a great language!
Other comments in this thread mention that dilemma as well. I'm in the same position trying to get Golang jobs, coming as a junior dev then running an IT service business.
Projects I got to work on included a social media app with heavily customized camera, fraud detection app, a Netflix-style video app, a modern punch card with liveness camera.
Side projects might be another route. I have a side project that lets me mess with AI/procedural generation/evolutionary programming. Presumably this may lead to a job in those fields some day.
Why do you want out? Sounds like you have a comfy, easy, copy+paste way to make a living with good income you can use to pursue serious passions - that's the dream. At the end of the day, it's just a job.
The vast majority of jobs out there in software development are CRUD applications. As you're well aware there is hardly anything novel required for these jobs other than domain expertise. As an engineer you're there to essentially do the busy work of gluing together frameworks and libraries. Even startups are rarely doing anything novel with software engineering, computing systems, etc. They're usually stumbling arou…
What signals lead into your perspective?
If you have been explicit about taking lower comp for a more interesting role, you should be aware (external) recruiters are usually paid a % of your starting salary. So they would have no self-interest in helping you here.
My recommendation is to hang out where people are using tools you find interesting, then ask them directly about their employers. Try to find the internal recruiter, externals' incentives are not aligned with your situation in particular.
I heard Amazon is looking for drivers.