Software Engineer jobs

Right now there are 8,315 software engineer openings on our board, and 1343 of them arrived in the last seven days. 2,549 of them are fully remote (remote software engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

1,953 of the 8,315 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $125k to $205k 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 (40% of postings), Python (34%) and CI/CD (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 70% of what software engineer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.