Can I move back SWE after a 3years of DE?
I am at a bit of a crossroads in my career right now. I have around 7 years of dev experience in Scala and 4 of those are in SWE and I have 3 years as a Data Engineer. I changed my job because it was more money and unwanted to do something different. Now, I am kind of bored of this surface level scala and spark programming and want to get back into SWE.
I find that functional programming with cats and cats effect kind of itches that spot in my brain if you know what I mean. My question is will recruiters see me as a potential hire as someone whose past 3 years is only as a Data Engineer?
I have worked with the effects system before but that was for about a year and I feel like the SWE world has changed a lot since I moved on a while back.
I am currently doing a lot of self study and personal projects to familiarise myself with the ecosystem again especially CE3.
If anyone could advise me on what I could do to make myself more marketable or if recruiters will even see me as a potential hire, that would be really appreciated.