[d13z]

I felt in a similar position a couple of years back.

Backend development at that time looked easy (build restful APIs of a database) and all the fun was in the frontend.

So I started focusing on frontend and I ended landing a job a techlead of a small team (6 Devs). This change give me visibility of what are the problems with development, so I started going meta-development. How are we developing things? How can we adapt to the business requirements? How do I keep my team happy and focused? Eventually management saw a value in my work and they asked us to create a team to help other teams across companies branches. I find the joy and purpose not in achieving company okrs, instead in making other developers better :)