Engineering

Software Engineer Jobs

The broadest technical role in the industry, spanning product feature work to platform engineering. Compensation varies more by company tier and equity treatment than by the work itself.

Demand index: 88
Est. openings: 184,000
YoY growth: +6.2%
Median salary: $168k

Process

Typical interview loop

1Recruiter screen
2Technical phone screen
3Coding interviews (2)
4System design
5Behavioural and values

In-demand skills

System designOne primary language in depthTesting and code reviewDebugging in productionVersion control and CI

By market

Software Engineer openings by city

Full salary breakdown

City	Est. openings	Median salary
San Francisco	695	$222k
New York	635	$205k
London	610	$114k
Bangalore	570	$41k
Singapore	520	$125k
Berlin	495	$91k
Toronto	470	$120k
Tel Aviv	460	$138k

Employers

Companies hiring software engineers

Stripe

Payments infrastructure for internet businesses, from startups to global enterprises.

Figma

Browser-native collaborative design platform and the de facto standard for product teams.

Notion

Connected workspace combining documents, databases, wikis and lightweight project management.

Vercel

Frontend cloud platform built around Next.js, edge delivery and preview-driven workflows.

Linear

Opinionated issue tracking and product planning for software teams that value speed.

Datadog

Observability platform spanning infrastructure monitoring, APM, logs and security.

Snowflake

Cloud data platform separating storage from compute across every major cloud.

Databricks

Data and AI platform built on the lakehouse architecture and open table formats.

Airtable

Relational database with a spreadsheet interface, used to build internal operational apps.