Comment by austin-cheney

My recommendation is to look at game companies. Those jobs are fewer, harder to get, sometimes pay more but usually less, and the work tends to be much harder. You will be writing code though. Game companies

Otherwise look towards jobs that require niche, less popular, languages or tend to require additional skills like an engineering, law, or medical background.

The ultimate goal is to find a work culture that values selflessness. Whether that means operations, product quality, or original problems to solve. When you are surrounded by self oriented people you will always get firefighting: that kind of environment where everything is an emergency and everything is tech debt and the primary goal is worship of some tool because all that matters is the tool user (the developers own desires) as opposed to the product users, the actual business target.