software engineer

Questions about software engineer

What does software engineer mean?

software engineer means "a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs".

What is another word for software engineer?

Close synonyms include programmer, computer programmer, coder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is software engineer a common word?

software engineer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.