There are development jobs where there is so much dysfunction, so many interruptions, meetings, slacks, whatever, you barely get any deep engineering work done.

There are development jobs where there is so much dysfunction, so many interruptions, meetings, slacks, whatever, you barely get any deep engineering work done. If there's no "real" work, you get assigned tickets that have been in Jira for 4 years and are now suddenly a priority, just so your scrum master can keep up appearances. Bullshit doesn't obey gravity: it flows up and down. Look for a position in product management. Other than founders, almost every other "product person" I've worked with did very little.