I couldn't disagree with you more. (UX developers)

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Is anyone else bothered by the job title "UX Developer"?" 

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I couldn't disagree with you more. 

I think you said  it your self. A good UX developer can make or break the user interaction. Having UX in the title flags up that you should be up for working at the sharp end where sloppy work will be noticeable. 

You're going to have to work with UX people and that means having a broader view of how your contribution fits in with the whole experience. ( Hence UX not UI)

More over you're going to have to think about how to work with designers and from my point of view know how to evaluate the effectiveness of the UI. 

Software people are taught to talk about 'stake holders' and getting rid of that baggage takes a lot of time and commitment. UX signals that .

I think finally there are different takes. Good UX takes a user centred perspective from my point of view. This is very top down ( find out what the user wants/needs and do it). *This implicitly  assumes that the technology which is used exists*. I've met a lot of very poor self styled UX people who think that if you can't get it from a table or draw it in photoshop then it can't exist. I'm sometimes appalled by how unimaginative some UX designers can be. Bret Victor's Magic Ink ( http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ ) is a good example of rethinking the user experience from a developers perspective. His Train schedules case study is a tour-de-force of what can happen if you can throw JQuery/Ajax/etc out of the window and just think freely unconstrained by the limitations of previous interface designs. 

If you need conformation of this - ask your self how you'r  taking advantage of multi-touch in the browser or tablet ? If not why not ? What are your barriers ? 

 I would suggest we need MORE UX developers not less. 
We need MORE developers committed to the front to back user experience not less 
We need MORE developers challenging UX designers assumptions of what can and cannot be done not less. 

Go UX Developers!!!