Switching to UX as an engineer

hello, I am in my senior year and will be joining as software engineer at a big automobile company. However, product design has really piqued my interest in the last few weeks. I find it more interesting and comes more "naturally" to me. For eg, I've built several apps and released them on the Play Store and found UX more enjoyable than the technical decisions I make.

Would you say UX is really much more competitive even for senior positions? (because swe is also too competitive in junior positions). I am a bit confused about my long term career (whether should I stick to swe or transition to product design role). This dilemma is very confusing and your inputs would be valuable :D