Very little protection of the term in software across most countries. You can become a chartered engineer from software but you still need your undergrad/master

Very little protection of the term in software across most countries. You can become a chartered engineer from software but you still need your undergrad/masters. Wether software development is an engineering discipline or an art is left to the reader (strong arguments for both sides and no one wins). There are definitely fields in software development that feel more like engineering than others, for example aerospace software. However without requiring an engineering degree/status to get those roles you can’t really tell from the job term what is and isn’t engineering-ish