Help me plan my near term future in SWE

I’m starting an associate SWE role in a Fortune 500 company. I’m transferring within the company from an unrelated, non-technical role in logistics. I became interested in this work and pursued a bootcamp and was able to make this change. Very excited. Tech stack is mostly Java and web, and I hope to learn Swift as well. I took a pay cut since I’m essentially starting over, around 70k all in is the comp package.

I am really lucky to have been able to make this move. However, I’ve been at this company for 3 years and want to experience SWE within a tech company setting. I also want to increase compensation as quickly as possible since I took about a 40% pay cut all in.

So, my question is-after one year in this role, what will my external options look like, generally speaking? Would I be able to jump to a small to mid tech company like a product service company or a company that owns its own tech product? What would my compensation level look like? Would I need to stay for another 1-2 years and get promoted to mid level in order for real options to open? I hope not-I’m eager for different experiences.

I’m in the south and would like to stay there (TX, TN, GA, NC, FL, etc.).

Thanks!