programmer vs software engineer

programmer

noun
  • One who writes computer programs; a software developer. 

  • A device that installs or controls a software program in some other machine. 

  • One who decides which programs will be shown on a television station, or which songs will be played on a radio station. 

software engineer

noun
  • One who designs and implements software solutions. 

How often have the words programmer and software engineer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )