Finding scope in a team with multiple senior devs

That Android engineer pretty much sounds like the position I'm currently in my org. So the perspective that I can share is how did I get into this position.

• I wrote a ton of code: I consistently do 2x-3x the yearly average for mobile engineers.
• Whenever I had spare bandwidth, I'd immediately try to refactor/delete something based on how much I had to spare. This led to me understanding the codebase more broadly and allowed me to play around with figuring out how I wanted my code to look.
• I spent a lot of time iterating on the code I wrote so I was exposed to pain points that my past decision introduced. Over time as I got more exposure to these points, I also began to code around them or be more deliberate for the tradeoffs I wanted. Since I circled back to bad code I wrote less, I was able to move and ship faster.
• This naturally built up to me reviewing a lot more code (since so much code had my fingerprints on them): I'd say this yearly number I do is 3x-4x the average.
• I pretty much said "yes" to every opportunity (that I felt like I could reasonably do given my bandwidth), but often times I didn't have much choice (one time, I ended up TLing 3 projects concurrently + writing nearly all of the Android code for all 3 projects). I felt like the exposure I got was much broader here compared to "normal work": both in terms of variety of responsiblities and intensity of work.

I'd boil down my experience to 2 themes:

• If your volume of work is signficantly more than your peers, you will get more opportunities. Since in the end, teams are judged on impact every year and giving work to the fastest, most consistent engineers means more impact to be had.
• Mentality is a big factor as well: what you think you own impacts what you're actually owning. I've been fortunate enough to be at the company for a while, so I have enough domain knowledge and trust where people are more willing to let me do whatever. Example: I just spent 2-3 months deleting an entire feature from the Android codebase the company shut down a while ago. I never worked on the feature before, it was causing complications to occassionally support it, and no one planned to delete it.

Hope this helps!