I agree that there is a distinction. At least for me, developer is solely focused on shipping code, although it's unavoidable to meet problems that require eng

I agree that there is a distinction. At least for me, developer is solely focused on shipping code, although it's unavoidable to meet problems that require engineering. When facing such problem, the developer will focus on 'making it work', instead of focusing on answering 'how should I proper architecture it?'. The curiosity of answering the later question comes from an engineer that also wants to know about networking, architecture and better ways to develop systems. In simple terms this distinction answers if the professional is curious about development only (developer) or curious about the whole stack plus development (software engineer).