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 111 active listings on Jobs Base, 12 (11%) 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.

111 active 11% remote median salary $239k

1.	Software Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, go \| 2mo ago
2.	Software Engineer, AI (Ruli) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, serverless \| 2mo ago
3.	Software Engineer - AI (WealthyMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, fastapi, langchain \| 2mo 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 \| 2mo 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 \| 2mo 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 \| 2mo 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 \| 3mo ago
8.	Software Engineer \| AI-First Team (Halosight) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, java, langchain \| 3mo ago
9.	Software Engineer (Founding) (Moe) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| react native, typescript, aws lambda \| 3mo ago
10.	Software Engineer, Gen AI Platform (Abridge) San Francisco, California, United States \| $221,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, java, go \| 3mo ago
11.	Software Engineer (ShiftOS) San Francisco, California, United States \| $120,000 – $165,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| react, next.js, typescript \| 3mo ago
12.	Software Engineer (AI & Automation) – Fintech Startup Firm (Amakor Capital) London, London, United Kingdom \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai/ml, llms \| 3mo ago
13.	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 \| 3mo ago
14.	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 \| 3mo ago
15.	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 \| 3mo ago
16.	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 \| 3mo ago
17.	AI Software Engineer (VerifAIX, Inc.) Cupertino, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, large language models, llm \| 3mo ago
18.	AI Software Engineer (Projectz AI) Austin, Texas, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, llms \| 3mo ago
19.	Staff Software Engineer, Mapping (ALSO.) Palo Alto, California, United States \| $220,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| golang, aws, google maps apis \| 3mo ago
20.	Senior Software Engineer, AI (Bubble) New York, New York, United States \| $183,000 – $237,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, llm apis \| 2mo ago
21.	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 \| 2mo ago
22.	Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (Perimeter) Boston, Massachusetts, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, javascript, typescript \| 3mo ago
23.	Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents) (Arcadia) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, go \| 3mo ago
24.	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 \| 3mo ago
25.	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 \| 3mo ago
26.	Senior Software Engineer - Special Projects (Jobgether) United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| distributed systems, backend development, rust \| 3mo ago
27.	Senior Software Engineer (AI) (Limelight) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llms, prompt engineering, rag \| 3mo ago
28.	Founding Software Engineer - Equity Only Role (SideKix HQ Inc.) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, node.js, firebase \| 3mo ago
29.	Founding Software Engineer (MIRA) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| llm, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (rag) \| 3mo ago
30.	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 \| 3mo ago
31.	Founding Software Engineer (Ensense AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, postgres \| 3mo ago
32.	Founding Software Engineer (Monarch Recruiters) Palo Alto, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| software engineering, product design, customer support \| 3mo ago
33.	Founding Software Engineer (Distro) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 3mo ago
34.	Founding Software Engineer, Perception (Kovari Industries) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| c++, camera pipelines, computer vision \| 3mo ago
35.	Founding Software Engineer, Robot Learning (Kovari Industries) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| robotics, perception stack, sensor data \| 3mo ago
36.	Frontier Software Engineer (GiveCampus) District of Columbia, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react, javascript, ruby on rails \| 3mo ago
37.	Founding Software Engineer (Equity Partner) (Streamwalkers) San Antonio, Texas, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| backend web development, api architecture, object-oriented programming \| 3mo ago
38.	AI/ML/NLP Software Engineer (Troupe) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 2mo ago
39.	Fullstack Software Engineer (Hadrian) Torrance, California, United States \| $120,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| react, next.js, typescript \| 3mo ago
40.	Founding / Software Engineer (Atarus) London, United Kingdom \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, cloud infrastructure \| 3mo ago
41.	Full Stack Software Engineer (Terralytiq) United States \| $90,000 – $120,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, next.js, react \| 3mo ago
42.	Full Stack Software Engineer (Northslope Technologies) New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, restful apis \| 3mo ago
43.	Full-Stack Software/AI Engineer (Aiola CPA, PLLC) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, node.js, react \| 3mo ago
44.	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 \| 2mo ago
45.	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 \| 3mo ago
46.	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 \| 3mo ago
47.	GAIN - Central IT - Software Engineer (GAIN) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| aws lambda, api gateway, s3 \| 3mo ago
48.	AI Agent Engineer (LaunchPad Lab) United States \| $125,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| langchain, langgraph, crewai \| 2mo ago
49.	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 \| 3mo ago
50.	Founding Engineer (Vye Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, postgresql, aws \| 3mo 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 111 active listings on Jobs Base, 12 (11%) 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.