Software lawyer sounds like you're a lawyer with a specialization. But ultimately I think it shouldn't come down to the specifics of what you call yourself since that's something people can weasel out of, but rather if you're communicating that you provide professional legal services.

as does "software engineer", but the title could be used in the US by someone who graduated a code boot camp, and doesn't know any engineering principles.

I identify as a Software Engineer. My pronouns are gcc/py.

lmfaooo

Feel free to just drop the "software" part, since it's a mouthful, and just call yourself a "lawyer." What's the difference anyway, we're all just typing words and numbers into computers at the end of the day.

Programmers write the code, though. A better name might be "software legislator." Given that lots of us work on top of a giant, partially-understood heap of frameworks and libraries, that might actually be a more appropriate name than Software Engineer.

What about writing code for decentralized contracts, since contracts are lawyery but I’m writing software and have no formal legal background or credentials? Surely no one would object to me using the term “lawyer” for that!

I dunno actually, do you need to be a lawyer to write a contract? I think anyone can do it, right? You just might screw yourself over by missing an edge case or writing an unenforceable contract.

You don't, though it's not necessarily a wise idea. But you definitely don't want to market yourself as a lawyer if you aren't one.

Nor do you need to be an engineer to do a lot of things, but for whatever reason that's considered fair game.