Dear Aspirant,

It is never too late to learn anything new. So if you want to learn any new technology then you can learn it and if you practice enough then you might master it as well.

To become a software engineer you need knowledge of following things:-

Algorithms

Data Structure

Dynamic programming

Object Oriented programming

Functional Programming

C/C++ language and some frontend/backend knowledge

Few projects in the field of software engineering.

Hope this helps, thank you.