1 possible route is to gather domain knowledge and move into the core business. A common career path in finance for instance is start out as a developer, pick

1 possible route is to gather domain knowledge and move into the core business. A common career path in finance for instance is start out as a developer, pick up the business side and later move to a function closer to the market (risk analyst, quant, structuring etc). Must be similar avenues for other domains. You need to be on top of the domain subject@hand anyway to be a good dev in my opinion...