Ask HN: Back end engineer webapps for too long, what to do next?

I have been working as a backend engineer on web applications for 8 years now. I have lost interest in my work and feel very bored these days. I just realized it is because I have been doing the same work more or less all these years. In these 7 years I have changed 5 jobs and moved from working in a small companies to one of the big companies in Bay Area but my work more or less is still building CRUD applications.

I am no longer interested in building CRUD apps or web applications. I want to work on something new and exciting. What areas are you working on in 2017. Have you moved from building backend systems for web applications to something else? How is your career transition going?