Beyond a certain level, you are required to come up with new ideas and do something innovative to get promoted, but how exactly? At some point in your career, you are required to propose some potential projects that your team or your organization can take up. Coming up with project ideas is a sign of a good senior engineer.
That's what exactly what I have been doing, finding things to improve. It could be as small as adding filter on website to make it easier for customer to rearchitecture of legacy code and performance optimization.
Senior or senior+?
That's what exactly what I have been doing, finding things to improve. It could be as small as adding filter on website to make it easier for customer to rearchitecture of legacy code and performance optimization.