From Devops to development

I have about 1.5 years of experience in devops/platform engineer related work. I mostly work with Kubernetes,docker and monitoring tools. But I am thinking to switch to development. I feel it’s not a good decision as I don’t have any relevant experience and the job market too. Do you think it would be possible for me ??because the pay is good and I think if I switch I will have to start from a freshers salary. Also what would be better java backend or MERN stack considering the fact that I will only be able to build projects and not real experience.