It's a different language. Similar words have different meanings in different parts of the world, simple as that. The American "software engineer" translates to

It's a different language. Similar words have different meanings in different parts of the world, simple as that. The American "software engineer" translates to "software developer" in much of continental Europe, even if the locals are sometimes using English words fot that. In Germany, for example, even getting all the fancy certifications will not make you an "Ingenieur“, the term just isn't used for computer science at all. ("Ingenieur“ is shared between disciplines as different as architecture and electrical engineering, but computer science will make you an "Informatiker“) Btw, when English is borrowing words from other languages they also tend to undergo a significant semantic shift. It's a two way street.