I'm old enough to remember when -- at least in the UK -- no-one was called a "software engineer". We were "coders", "programmers" and then "developers". I had recently called a plumbing company -- which told me that an "engineer" would be on site as soon as possible -- we used to just called them "plumbers", and so on.

My favourite other aggrandising titles:

Software "Architect"

Data "Scientist"

Data "Engineer"