[walterclifford]

> is a job with no growth sufficient

More than sufficient, it would be ideal. I have no desire to become a tech lead or architect or manager - I love being a software engineer and that's what I want to spend my time doing, not sitting in meetings all day.

I certainly don't expect to spend 100% of my time writing code, I've been doing this long enough I fully understand and am okay with the various other aspects of being a developer, especially a senior one - I'm just not interested in getting any "promotion" that results in me spending even less, or no, time coding. A big part of the problem is I spent a decade working on shipped product (i.e. not a service) and now work on a service and (like many service-focused jobs) in addition to being developers our team is also responsible for the ops/infra running the service and for me personally I don't find much interest in working with that area.