Software Engineer jobs

Right now there are 4,012 software engineer openings on our board, and 316 of them arrived in the last seven days. 1,404 of them are fully remote (remote software engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

898 of the 4,012 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $114k to $216k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the software engineer salary page.

The three skills software engineer postings name most often are REST APIs (38% of postings), Full-Stack Development (33%) and Python (32%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 1 measured routes lead into software engineer work. The closest is from backend developer: a typical backend developer profile already covers 71% of what software engineer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.