[Bingaloopa]

Software Engineer and Software Developer are used interchangeably for the most part and I don't think you can really get any meaningful distinction just by the name (in most countries at least).

Some countries (Canada I think being one?) may require you be licensed/registered with an engineering body before you're allowed to call yourself an engineer, but thats not the case in most countries AFAIK

[Waterluvian]

Indeed. I worked at a Canadian company that got a legal nastygram from the professional association saying to stop calling us engineers.

Then I started working for an American company that was like shrug no laws against that.

I just can’t say professional engineer.

The whole thing makes a ton of sense when we’re building bridges or airplane safety rated computer systems, but not so much when building websites or whatnot.

[eddsh1994]

I work on critical software and have the 'engineer' label, but do have a nagging feeling it's less structured than 'normal' engineering disciplines. I'm taking a part-time BEng to see if that's the case though!

[Sephr]

You can definitely call yourself a professional software engineer in the US.