600 live roles · 187 fully remote · freshest first

Software Engineer jobs

Live software engineer openings from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source. What the role pays, across markets and seniority: software engineer salary.

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What 600 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 570 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 5 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	29	4	—
Untagged (mid)	314	49	$90k–$160k
Senior / lead	257	56	$141k–$223k

Seniority is read from posting titles; roles with no level in the title are counted as mid. Bands cover only postings that state pay, and only where five or more do.

Skills named most

Share of postings naming each skill, from the posting text itself.

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Routes into software engineer

The measured pivots that lead here, ranked by how much of the destination a typical origin profile already covers.

Backend Developer → Software Engineer68% readiness

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Quick answers

How many software engineer jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 600 software engineer openings on our board, and 570 of them arrived in the last seven days. 187 of them are fully remote (remote software engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do software engineer jobs pay?

109 of the 600 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $110k to $210k 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.

What skills do software engineer postings ask for?

The three skills software engineer postings name most often are REST APIs (31% of postings), Full-Stack Development (31%) and CI/CD (27%). 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.

Can I move into software engineer work from an adjacent role?

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 68% of what software engineer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.

Listings backfilled from re-displayable sources (company career pages, remote-job boards, and public-sector postings), freshest first, refreshed with the nightly scrape. Each links out to apply at the original posting; PivotHop does not host applications. Salary shown where the posting states it.