Honestly, in most of my experience the higher the title of the developer, the worse the code is. Developers aren't promoted for writing nice code, they are pro

Honestly, in most of my experience the higher the title of the developer, the worse the code is. Developers aren't promoted for writing nice code, they are promoted for getting projects out the door, on time. This usually requires sacrifices in terms of engineering. I'm in a pretty similar situation: I'm reasonably adept at coding challenges, but fall down when it comes to developing more complicated applications. I've found that I'm most useful on teams with good tech leadership. Every medium+ size team has unglamorous, easy work that just needs to be done by someone. So I'd suggest keep moving jobs until you find such a team, then stick it out. Also -- and this is going to sound terrible -- but at a large enough company, you can be incompetent and still collect a paycheck. You'll probably be given busy work or tasks that the managers understand aren't going anywhere. And realize that 50% of profits from companies are generated by sqrt(total_employees), meaning, that, in general almost nobody is a big money maker.