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At the risk of crushing your dream role, re-implementations can be long slogs. I'm in the middle of one right now. The Product owners don't know what the thing does. The engineers who originally wrote it are gone, and their replacements are relatively new to the codebase. The bright side is customers are hugely interested in our progress to date and we've received positive feedback. The business wishes we could move faster.

> The Product owners don't know what the thing does.

This is the dumbest part. You’d think that someone documented something when they originally built it, but nooo. Don’t even know the requirements, just that it has to be the same as the previous one.

Business doesn’t want us to stop the bus to change the tires - or spend so much time changing tires that the bus never reaches the destination.

Makes me think of Lightning McQueen losing the first race in Cars because he refuses to pit to change his tires, then blows them out on the last lap.

That type of role typically requires senior engineers at a junior salary

If your dream job could be in Charleston SC lets chat :)