How to Make Software Better for Yourself and Your Company

Software engineer: What can you do as a software engineer to make things better for yourself and for the entire team or company? I think it starts with two things. You need to actually understand what makes good software, what is good design,. And that comes with training and experience, but maybe not as much as you might think. The other part of it is I would recommend when you're at a company understanding the incentives.