Smaller or faster growing companies often need versatile people that can speak to customers and developers.

Or find a tiny niche where you can leverage technology to make a customer life easier. Then do that for more customers.

Or experiment in a consultant capacity outside of the day job.

Stepping back to big picture, your comments about versatility and helping the customer scream small business opportunity rather than big corporate.

And when I say small I think that’s a great thing (autonomy, financial independence) in contrast to Silicon Valley venture capital culture.