What does a software engineer typically earn?

Typical compensation for a software engineer runs $120k–$200k base, equity at startups. Salaries skew higher at well-funded US startups and lower outside the US; equity grants vary sharply by stage.

How many software engineer jobs are remote-friendly?

Across the current 101 active listings on Jobs Base, 12 (12%) are fully remote. The rest split between on-site and hybrid.

How often are new software engineer jobs posted?

Jobs Base ingests new software engineer jobs continuously. New listings appear daily across the major sources we ingest.

Software Engineer Jobs

Software engineer roles on Jobs Base are filtered down to ones with end-to-end ownership. No ticket-driven feature factories, no "your work will be reviewed by three senior engineers and a TPM" listings. The companies posting these roles tend to be early-stage startups, growth-stage companies still building their first version of something, or the rare big-company team where one person actually owns a product surface. If you want a software-engineer job that lets you decide what to build, this is the slice of the market you want.

101 active 12% remote median salary $215k

1.	Software Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, go \| 3mo ago
2.	Software Engineer, AI (Ruli) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, serverless \| 3mo ago
3.	Software Engineer - AI (WealthyMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, fastapi, langchain \| 3mo ago
4.	Software Engineer, AI x Healthcare (Asha Health (YC F24)) Manhattan, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| backend engineering, ai agents, product management \| 3mo ago
5.	Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Systems) (Sweep360) New York, New York, United States \| Up to $240,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, go, typescript \| 4mo ago
6.	Software Engineer ($180K - $220K + Equity) at YC-backed AI Data Infrastructure Startup (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| next.js, react, python \| 4mo ago
7.	Software Engineer, AI/ML Platforms (Early Career) (Cornerstone First Mortgage, LLC) San Diego, California, United States \| $30 – $35/hr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, javascript, python \| 4mo ago
8.	Software Engineer \| AI-First Team (Halosight) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, java, langchain \| 4mo ago
9.	Software Engineer (Founding) (Moe) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| react native, typescript, aws lambda \| 4mo ago
10.	Software Engineer (ShiftOS) San Francisco, California, United States \| $120,000 – $165,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| react, next.js, typescript \| 4mo ago
11.	Software Engineer (AI & Automation) – Fintech Startup Firm (Amakor Capital) London, London, United Kingdom \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai/ml, llms \| 4mo ago
12.	Software Engineer (Underdog.io -Apply to top tech jobs in 60 seconds. A place where companies apply to you) Brooklyn, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, node.js, rust \| 4mo ago
13.	Software Engineer / Platform Architect (Bluprint Films) New York City, New York, United States \| hybrid \| part-time \| senior \| software architecture, front-end development, back-end development \| 4mo ago
14.	Software Engineer – Frontend & UX Design (CompFly AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| $100,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| react, typescript, ux design \| 4mo ago
15.	AI Software Engineer, Founding Team (Gabriel Talent Consulting) New York, New York, United States+1 \| $230,000 – $265,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, postgresql, redis \| 4mo ago
16.	AI Software Engineer (VerifAIX, Inc.) Cupertino, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, large language models, llm \| 4mo ago
17.	AI Software Engineer (Projectz AI) Austin, Texas, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, llms \| 4mo ago
18.	Senior Software Engineer, AI Engineer (Midi Health) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $170,000 – $210,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm, machine learning \| 3mo ago
19.	Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (Perimeter) Boston, Massachusetts, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, javascript, typescript \| 4mo ago
20.	Senior Software Engineer ($250K - $300K + Equity) at YC-backed AI Data Infrastructure Startup (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| next.js, react, node.js \| 4mo ago
21.	Senior Software Engineer – AI Systems & Architecture (Item Alignment Inc) New Jersey, United States \| $125,000 – $210,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| java, python, llm \| 4mo ago
22.	Senior Software Engineer - Special Projects (Jobgether) United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| distributed systems, backend development, rust \| 4mo ago
23.	Senior Software Engineer (AI) (Limelight) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llms, prompt engineering, rag \| 4mo ago
24.	Founding Software Engineer - Equity Only Role (SideKix HQ Inc.) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, node.js, firebase \| 4mo ago
25.	Founding Software Engineer (MIRA) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| llm, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (rag) \| 4mo ago
26.	Founding Software Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, next.js \| 4mo ago
27.	Founding Software Engineer (Ensense AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, postgres \| 4mo ago
28.	Founding Software Engineer (Monarch Recruiters) Palo Alto, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| software engineering, product design, customer support \| 4mo ago
29.	Founding Software Engineer (Distro) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 4mo ago
30.	Founding Software Engineer, Perception (Kovari Industries) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| c++, camera pipelines, computer vision \| 4mo ago
31.	Founding Software Engineer, Robot Learning (Kovari Industries) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| robotics, perception stack, sensor data \| 4mo ago
32.	Frontier Software Engineer (GiveCampus) District of Columbia, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react, javascript, ruby on rails \| 4mo ago
33.	Founding Software Engineer (Equity Partner) (Streamwalkers) San Antonio, Texas, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| backend web development, api architecture, object-oriented programming \| 4mo ago
34.	AI/ML/NLP Software Engineer (Troupe) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 3mo ago
35.	Fullstack Software Engineer (Hadrian) Torrance, California, United States \| $120,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| react, next.js, typescript \| 4mo ago
36.	Full Stack Software Engineer (Terralytiq) United States \| $90,000 – $120,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, next.js, react \| 4mo ago
37.	Full Stack Software Engineer (Northslope Technologies) New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, restful apis \| 4mo ago
38.	Full-Stack Software/AI Engineer (Aiola CPA, PLLC) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, node.js, react \| 4mo ago
39.	Staff Fullstack Software Engineer (Provider) (Headway) New York, New York, United States \| $224,000 – $280,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, python, react \| 4mo ago
40.	Vice President of Software Engineering (Anton Intelligence) Tempe, Arizona, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| agentic AI coding tools, AI-native development, CI/CD \| 4mo ago
41.	Senior Tactical C2 Software Engineer, Web Backend Systems (Anduril Industries) Costa Mesa, California, United States \| $191,000 – $253,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, golang, javascript \| 4mo ago
42.	GAIN - Central IT - Software Engineer (GAIN) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| aws lambda, api gateway, s3 \| 4mo ago
43.	AI Agent Engineer (LaunchPad Lab) United States \| $125,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| langchain, langgraph, crewai \| 4mo ago
44.	Lead Engineer (Remote or Hybrid) (Optix) Canada+1 \| CA$120,000 – CA$140,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| full-stack engineering, saas, ai apis \| 4mo ago
45.	Founding Engineer (Vye Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, postgresql, aws \| 4mo ago
46.	Full Stack Engineer (Underdog.io -Apply to top tech jobs in 60 seconds. A place where companies apply to you) New York City, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| react, typescript, python \| 4mo ago
47.	Staff Fullstack Engineer (uiAgent) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| react, node.js, kubernetes \| 4mo ago
48.	AI Automation Engineer (QuSecure) United States \| $80,000 – $130,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, api integration, prompt engineering \| 4mo ago
49.	Forward Deployed Engineer (SZNS Solutions) Reston, Virginia, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, typescript, go \| 4mo ago
50.	Full Stack AI Engineer (Cube) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, fastapi, react \| 4mo ago

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Frequently asked questions

What is a software engineer?: Software engineer roles on Jobs Base are filtered down to ones with end-to-end ownership. No ticket-driven feature factories, no "your work will be reviewed by three senior engineers and a TPM" listings. The companies posting these roles tend to be early-stage startups, growth-stage companies still building their first version of something, or the rare big-company team where one person actually owns a product surface. If you want a software-engineer job that lets you decide what to build, this is the slice of the market you want.
What does a software engineer typically earn?: Typical compensation for a software engineer runs $120k–$200k base, equity at startups. Salaries skew higher at well-funded US startups and lower outside the US; equity grants vary sharply by stage.
How many software engineer jobs are remote-friendly?: Across the current 101 active listings on Jobs Base, 12 (12%) are fully remote. The rest split between on-site and hybrid.
How often are new software engineer jobs posted?: Jobs Base ingests new software engineer jobs continuously. New listings appear daily across the major sources we ingest.