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I wish this was true. I'm always finding myself moving around in an organization and projects trying to find new challenges rather than building another standard API. Certainly every project has it's critical pieces where any extra attention can pay off but not so many.

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I think a trick you can learn here is that once you're good at doing something that is difficult to do the first time, and becomes tedious to do on repetition -- but is still something that needs to be done frequently, the way to vastly increase your value is to be able to teach others how to do that thing.

What type of company do you work for? It may be different in software/services vs. commerce companies.

I actually work at a software/services company for commerce. Don't get me wrong, this is a big space and there are many challenges but they often tend to be more vertical than technical. Lately I've been making a monolithic app behave less so with decoupled async notifications. Also spend some time prototyping things for future adoption for if/when that's feasible. I'd like to be using something functional like F# but for some reason not being in adtech/fintech drastically lowers tech appetite of companies.

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