Top Entry Level Software Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Develop kernel-centric reliability solutions for AI compute clusters and production services. Responsibilities include debugging failures, building diagnostic tools, supporting incident response, performing root-cause analysis, improving kernel and software reliability, and collaborating with systems, hardware, ASIC, and architecture teams on reliability-focused designs.

Designs, develops, deploys, tests, and reviews software applications, features, and defect fixes. Collaborates with team leaders and users to support a product roadmap, analyze requirements, document software, provide developer-level support, and learn existing codebases. The role also involves participating in planning meetings, conferences, and occasional team travel.

Work directly with government customers to design and implement data-driven solutions, owning end-to-end projects. Tasks include architecture, data engineering, web app development, customer engagement, and deploying software onsite with travel.

Develop and scale Arch’s financial technology platform by building user-facing features, backend services, APIs, reusable components, and scalable systems. Collaborate with product, design, operations, and infrastructure teams; write reliable code, participate in reviews, troubleshoot issues across applications and databases, and gain full-stack experience while contributing to automation and data-heavy investment workflows.

Entry-level software engineers complete three rotations across Citizens' technology teams, designing, developing, and implementing software solutions. Responsibilities include building mobile applications, APIs, microservices, and enterprise technology solutions; documenting requirements and project progress; troubleshooting systems; improving application quality; and applying modern development practices and AI-assisted tools. The program includes onboarding, technical training, professional development, and eventual placement on a software engineering team.

Design, build, and operate Tailscale’s global Funnel and DERP networking infrastructure. Develop open-source client dataplane features, improve scalability and reliability, troubleshoot complex connectivity issues, support customer escalations, and participate in incident management. The role requires strong networking expertise across VPNs, NAT traversal, routing, and IP addressing, plus experience with distributed systems, SRE, DevOps, and preferably Go.

Design, develop, test, review, and maintain medium-complexity software systems. Translate product requirements into scalable, secure, modular, and maintainable applications; provide application support; participate in design and code reviews; and mentor less experienced engineers. The role requires programming expertise, knowledge of data structures, algorithms, databases, caching, and strong collaboration and problem-solving skills.

Build robust, scalable software and infrastructure for a regulated mortgage servicing platform. Responsibilities include learning new technologies, designing systems that handle complex federal and state regulations, understanding mortgage industry processes, and collaborating with Product and Design to deliver strong customer experiences. The role offers substantial autonomy in a fast-paced startup environment.

Design, build, and operate a distributed storage and data movement platform supporting petabyte-scale model training and evaluation. Run stateful systems across Kubernetes clusters, define throughput, latency, and durability requirements with research and infrastructure teams, and solve networking, I/O, consistency, and cross-region data transfer challenges. The role involves supporting cloud object storage, POSIX filesystems, model checkpoints, and large-scale GPU workloads.

Design, develop, test, and optimize safe, scalable real-time software for production autonomous vehicle systems. Architect continuous learning infrastructure for ML model deployment and monitoring, analyze algorithms, and collaborate with embedded, platform, AI, sensor, and compute teams. Support perception, prediction, and planning integration while contributing to highway and urban autonomous driving capabilities.

Architect and build scalable, reliable onboarding systems for financial institutions. Responsibilities include developing full-stack features, integrating legacy banking and compliance systems, solving multi-tenant and real-time processing challenges, translating banking requirements into technical solutions, and owning system performance and scalability. The role involves direct collaboration with customers, product teams, banks, and engineering leadership in a fully remote startup environment.

Develop, test, debug, and maintain game software for console, PC, and mobile platforms. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to define and implement features, deliver systems to specification, provide ongoing technical support, and balance scope, quality, and development pace.

Build responsive Bubble.io applications for startup clients, collaborate with product managers and designers, refine requirements, test tools and assumptions, communicate with clients weekly, and contribute reusable components and tutorials to the internal library. The role offers autonomy, client exposure, and opportunities to advance into technical leadership or product management.

As a Full-Stack Engineer, you will learn and help build new product features, contribute to backend systems, and support AI-driven workflows for CPG brands.

Design and build backend infrastructure for long-running, stateful workflows involving automated processing, AI model inference, and expert review. Develop orchestration primitives such as retries, recovery, idempotency, and auditable state transitions. Create APIs and tooling for operations, debugging, observability, and reliability. Partner with product, operations, and ML teams to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable, debuggable systems and own services through design, deployment, and continuous improvement.

Leads development of secure, scalable applications and services; owns complex cross-service problems, drives architecture and technical roadmaps, and improves deployment automation, observability, reliability, and maintainability. Performs code and technical reviews, incident analysis, performance and release testing, vulnerability scanning, and CI/CD orchestration. Provides technical guidance, coaches engineers, conducts interviews, supports promotions, and builds cross-organizational partnerships.

Own significant areas of PayBox end-to-end, from problem definition through production and iteration. Build AI-interface payment and peer-to-peer transfer experiences, integrations across AI platforms, and infrastructure for applications and plugins. Partner with Product, improve onboarding and UX, make pragmatic architectural decisions, and operate autonomously in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment. The role emphasizes strong systems thinking, product judgment, thoroughness, and extensive but accountable use of AI.

Own the development of a 24/7 agent that monitors retailer drops, detects scarce inventory, automates checkout, tracks portfolios, and supports real-time pricing infrastructure. The role offers high autonomy, broad technical ownership, and responsibility for reliable production systems serving thousands of collectors. This is a full-time, in-person position in New York City.

Jane Street is looking for software engineers who are proficient in functional programming with OCaml and Python. Collaboration and a passion for technology are essential, as engineers are involved in varied business areas.

The role involves writing documentation, building tools for documentation, creating training materials, and producing tutorials and written content for various platforms.

Build and own the architecture for Dune’s curated data lifecycle, including dependency-aware orchestration, backfills, schema evolution, retries, recovery, data quality, and alerting. The role combines backend software engineering with large-scale data systems work across Go, Kotlin, Rust, Python, and SQL. Responsibilities include designing ingestion and curation contracts, making architecture decisions, solving ambiguous problems, and leading work that other engineers can execute.

As a Software Engineer - Backend, you will develop products and manage engineering infrastructure, focusing on system design, security, and code quality.

Design and develop core backend components for a blockchain network using Rust, ensuring reliability and scalability in production-grade software.

Develop front-end, server-side, and database applications for blockchain products while ensuring high performance and security. Responsible for enhancing web-based platforms.

Lead the technical direction of Zocdoc’s patient acquisition platform, building scalable APIs, microservices, AWS infrastructure, and React experiences. Improve SEO, page speed, system reliability, and patient-facing data access. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Marketing, integrate third-party data and Contentful, apply LLM technology, promote engineering excellence, mentor engineers, and drive AI-focused innovation across distributed teams.