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Software Engineer salary in New York
Average Base Salary in New York
$126,901
$13,837
Additional Cash Compensation
$140,738
Total Compensation
Median: $127K
Min: $65K
Max: $240K
How Much Does a Software Engineer Make in New York?
The average salary for a Software Engineer in New York is $126,901. The average additional cash compensation for a Software Engineer in New York is $13,837. The average total compensation for a Software Engineer in New York is $140,738. Software Engineer salaries are based on responses gathered by Built In NYC from anonymous Software Engineer employees in New York.
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Software Engineer jobs in NYC
We are looking for Senior Software Engineers to work across our engineering teams to build web applications and backend systems that perform at scale. The ideal candidate is adept at writing robust, extensible, and efficient code and has a knack for solving complex problems with simple solutions. Our stack consists primarily of Python and Golang on the backend and React on the frontend. We see technology as a means to solving problems and getting things done and thus prioritize talent over existing skill set. We use Google Cloud hosted infrastructure services including Google App Engine, Kubernetes, BigQuery, and Cloud SQL. Our culture emphasizes making good tradeoffs, working as a team, and leaving your ego at the door.
Develop, release and run large-scale web applications.
Develop and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area.
Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems.
Be involved in transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture.
Completely disrupt logistics by tackling bleeding-edge, technical problems.
Software Engineering Manager
+37
Are you energized by leading world-class software engineers while remaining hands-on with coding and technical architecture? As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a software engineering team in building products while maintaining a high quality bar with scalable and reusable technology. You will be mentoring, coaching and inspiring software engineers on the team to take on new technical challenges and grow their careers. You will lead the team in looking at problems in new ways and inventing simple solutions to complex problems.
We are looking for Principal Software Engineers to work across our engineering teams to build scalable, extensible, reliable, and performant systems that provide significant company and industry level impact. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced startup environment that allows them to take ownership over their work, add considerable value, and play a hand in driving the overall growth and success of Bluecore. Our stack consists primarily of Python and Golang on the backend, and JavaScript (React) on the frontend. We use Google Cloud hosted infrastructure services including Google App Engine, Kubernetes/GKE, BigQuery, and Cloud SQL. We hold a true “Tech-First” mentality here at Bluecore, enabling us to build an Engineering organization that values constant innovation and encourages its members to bring in new ideas, try them out, and really implement them. Bluecore’s Engineering team is made up of exemplary engineers who believe in working collaboratively to solve complex technical problems and build creative solutions that are as simple as possible, but as powerful as necessary. We emphasize a culture of making good tradeoffs, working as a team, and leaving your ego at the door.
As a Software Engineer on FAMDI (Financial Asset Modeling & Market Data Integration), you will have the opportunity to cover a wide spectrum of engineering stacks at Addepar. You will be responsible for building data models, calculation engines for financial assets, and services that serves market data from various systems into Addepar. We strive to provide our clients with accurate and performant calculations based on their needs. You will be exposed to both client-facing financial data modeling, calculations and infrastructure of data intensive systems. We work very closely with product managers in full circle of product feature development from client research to final roll-out, and the engineering infrastructure team to develop and maintain a performant and scalable market data service.
Staff Software Engineer
+22
You are a full-stack SOA engineer / generalist. Experience and (just as important) interest in working in a variety of layers and technologies within a SOA is a must for our team. This includes (walking down the stack): AngularJS SPA development, MVC-based web architecture, external RESTful APIs, distributed (and in our case, highly scaled) request handling services, no-SQL and relational SQL databases, big data processing (e.g. data bus architecture, Hadoop / MPP data warehouse, etc.), and data visualization (e.g. Tableau). Experience in all these layers is not strictly required, but we do like to see experience working in more than one, as well as eagerness to work on projects that might slice through them all (because they often will).
Software Engineer - Product Backend
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Write server-side code, create high-volume production applications, and develop prototypes quickly.
Design and build new features into the Squarespace platform, building backend services with Java.
Collaborate with other engineers and designers to provide strong customer-focused experiences.
Ensure the reliability of systems essential to Squarespace users and businesses powered by Squarespace.
Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing beautiful, readable code).
Actively contribute to team and company standards.
You'll push code to production banking systems on Day 1. As a SaaS provider to banks and credit unions, security and reliability are a top concern. We're looking for someone who likes to move quickly while guaranteeing that work is covered by tests and code is maintainable.
You’ll work with modern programming languages / frameworks, but will also have to work with integrations to banking legacy systems that still run on mainframe computers and archaic payment schemas. That is always a fun challenge :-)
Your peers are from DigitalOcean, Pivotal, Namely, and JPMorgan. Come join us and power the banking revolution!
Senior Software Engineer - iOS
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Prototype new app and feature ideas and explore new technologies that are at the forefront of mobile technology.
Design and implement new features, create UI, debugging, data modeling.
Collaborate across departments with team members representing product, design, web development, and server-side engineering.
Maintain apps, listen to community and fix issues that arise.
Mentor software engineers at varying levels of experience.
Principal Software Engineer
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As a Principal Backend Engineer on our Extensibility and Experience team, you’ll enable our customers to dynamically customize and extend the Procore Platform to fit each of their projects’ unique needs. You’ll drive immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack by identifying critical areas based on future growth and collaborating with Product, QA, UX, and other groups to develop roadmaps and tackle initiatives. If you’re a strong leader with proven experience evaluating industry best-of-class technical approaches—we have a spot for you on our team.
Sr Software Engineer I -Roku
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This is a fantastic opportunity to help solve complex but interesting scalability, performance and availability problems for products consumed by millions of users each day! You will have the opportunity to work with a suite of great technologies and in a highly collaborative environment where the engineers get together on a quarterly basis in NY to problem solve major business challenges.
As a member of the team developing the software of a product-led company, you won’t just code — you will be an integral part of the entire product development process, from conception to post-launch reflection. Asana is helping teams in 195 countries become significantly more productive with our leading work management platform. You will be manifesting continuous improvements of their experience and helping us achieve our mission to enable all teams to work together effortlessly.
Asana’s Product Engineering team works closely with Product and Data Science teams to develop iterations and new features of our platform. The team does full stack work on all parts of the platform, from the core of a feature to the UI displaying it. We’re looking for outstanding people anywhere to help us innovate and scale, and we offer relocation.
Software Engineer Salary ranges
The most common Software Engineer salary in New York is between $120k - $130k.
Average Software Engineer Salary by Company Size
People with the job title Software Engineer make the most at companies with 201-500 employees, earning $129,033 on average.
Software Engineer Salary by gender
The average Software Engineer salary for women is $120,807 and the average Software Engineer salary for men is $126,823.
Software Engineer Salary by Years of Experience
The average salary for a Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience is $150,529. The average salary for <1 year of experience is $106,200.
Average Dev + Engineer salaries in New York
| Job Title | Average Salary | Salary Range |
|---|---|---|
| QA Analyst | $76,989 | Min: $55K Max: $100K |
| Junior Software Engineer | $87,472 | Min: $42K Max: $135K |
| Software Test Engineer | $96,500 | Min: $65K Max: $135K |
| QA Engineer | $97,448 | Min: $60K Max: $145K |
| Automation Engineer | $102,893 | Min: $70K Max: $146K |
| Salesforce Developer | $110,708 | Min: $76K Max: $180K |
| Front End Developer | $113,532 | Min: $70K Max: $167K |
| Systems Engineer | $114,667 | Min: $85K Max: $180K |
| Hardware Engineer | $121,000 | Min: $100K Max: $142K |
| Android Developer | $122,250 | Min: $50K Max: $200K |
| Data Engineer | $123,685 | Min: $75K Max: $200K |
| Software Engineer | $126,901 | Min: $65K Max: $240K |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $127,000 | Min: $105K Max: $142K |
| QA Manager | $127,294 | Min: $84K Max: $195K |
| Sales Engineer | $127,627 | Min: $46K Max: $185K |
| Site Reliability Engineer | $130,000 | Min: $100K Max: $175K |
| iOS Developer | $132,338 | Min: $83K Max: $250K |
| Security Engineer | $135,370 | Min: $70K Max: $252K |
| Game Developer | $136,000 | Min: $136K Max: $136K |
| DevOps Engineer | $138,278 | Min: $90K Max: $200K |
| Data Architect | $144,464 | Min: $85K Max: $260K |
| Database Administrator | $147,000 | Min: $147K Max: $147K |
| Senior Software Engineer | $155,657 | Min: $110K Max: $225K |
| Principal Software Engineer | $165,276 | Min: $126K Max: $240K |
| Lead Software Engineer | $169,685 | Min: $130K Max: $210K |
| Data Engineering Manager | $179,000 | Min: $179K Max: $179K |
| Engineering Manager | $179,745 | Min: $95K Max: $265K |
| Director of Software Engineering | $205,965 | Min: $140K Max: $420K |
| Vice President of Engineering | $220,484 | Min: $160K Max: $305K |
| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) | $250,773 | Min: $120K Max: $426K |
Skills that affect Software Engineer salaries in New York
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Javascript
16% have this skill
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SQL
13% have this skill
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Python
13% have this skill
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Front-end
11% have this skill
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Java
11% have this skill
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Node.js
9% have this skill
Recent Software Engineer salaries in New York
$94,000
Yearly Salary
A Full-Stack Engineer reported a yearly salary of $94,000 with +$5,000 in additional cash compensation
< 1 Year of Experience
Female
51-200 Employees
New York
$130,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $130,000 with +$10,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Female
51-200 Employees
New York
$115,000
Yearly Salary
A Software engineer (team lead) reported a yearly salary of $115,000 with +$14,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
New York
1-5 Reports
$102,000
Yearly Salary
A Full Stack Developer reported a yearly salary of $102,000 with +$12,000 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
New York
$95,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $95,000 with +$10,000 in additional cash compensation
< 1 Year of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
New York
$100,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $100,000
1-3 Years of Experience
Prefer not to say
201-500 Employees
New York
$90,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $90,000
7+ Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
New York
$110,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $110,000 with +$5,000 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Prefer not to say
201-500 Employees
New York
$130,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $130,000
< 1 Year of Experience
Male
51-200 Employees
New York
$130,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $130,000
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
New York
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NYC is a major hub for digital media, fintech, robotics, retail, health tech and cybersecurity. Full-stack software engineers are in particular demand.
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You don't need a computer science degree to become a software engineer. Companies like the NYC-based Codeacademy, for example, provides immersive interactive courses in all the major programming languages. While any software engineer needs a strong foundation in coding, critical thinking and problem solving skills are the true keys to success.
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