Software engineer jobs in the United States

Find software engineer jobs across the United States. Choose a place, compare current openings and read the employer’s requirements.

Counted Nov 2, 2026

Hiring at a glance

View jobs

Open jobs: 40,524
Employers: 7,692

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $145,590Across 9,596 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $61.67Across 1,460 listings
Average starting payCAD / year: $133,583Across 39 listings
Average starting payUSD / month: $18,668Across 25 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 9%3,760 listings
Hybrid: 8%3,140 listings
On-site: 14%5,575 listings

Not specified: 69% (28,049 listings)

Employers hiring include Akamai Technologies, Inc. (697), JPMC page (590), Lockheed Martin (587).

Sources & calculation notes

These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

Software engineer jobs in the United States

Save this search

Added 2 mins ago
Software Engineer III (MUMPS/Cache/IRIS)
Quest Diagnostics Inc
Secaucus, NJ
Added 2 mins ago
Sr Software Engineer
Cengage Group
Newark, NJ
Added 2 mins ago
Software Engineer 4
Artech LLC
Morristown, NJ
Participate in multiple phases of project life cycle development including requirement gathering, software design, development, and testing of computer applications. Develop and maintain…
Added 3 mins ago
Senior PLM Systems Architect
True Anomaly
Denver, CO · Long Beach, CA
…We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors - enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from…
Added 6 mins ago
BV
Cloud Architect
Bright Vision Technologies
Remote, United States
- $115,000 to $165,000 USD / year
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is an opportunity…
Added 6 mins ago
BV
Site Reliability Engineer
Bright Vision Technologies
Remote, United States
- $115,000 to $165,000 USD / year
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is an opportunity…
Added 6 mins ago
Software Development Engineer II , Digital Ordering Services
Amazon.com Services LLC
Bellevue, WA
Added 6 mins ago
Software Development Engineer II, Digital Acceleration
Amazon.com Services LLC
Bellevue, WA
Added 6 mins ago
Software Development Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
Added 6 mins ago
Software Development Engineer II - AWS Networking Applications, SIDR
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
Added 6 mins ago
BV
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Bright Vision Technologies
Remote, United States
- $115,000 to $165,000 USD / year
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is an opportunity…
Added 7 mins ago
Staff Software Engineer
Mercury Insurance Services, LLC
Brea, CA
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and direction for multiple agile teams or projects to implement prioritized software product roadmaps. This role includes…
Added 7 mins ago
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
HITACHI ENERGY USA INC
Raleigh, NC · Atlanta, GA · Houston, TX · Broomfield, CO
Hitachi Energy is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the secure, reliable, and efficient operation of cloud‑hosted environments that support ESS software products and…
Added 9 mins ago
Software Engineer III - Investment Operations Technology
Northwestern Mutual
Milwaukee, WI
We are seeking a Software Engineer III to build, modernize, and support technology solutions for Investment Operations. The role works across applications, data, integrations, batch…
Added 10 mins ago
Specialist, Software Engineer (Cloud Developer)
L3Harris Technologies
Patrick Air Force Base, FL
Job Title: Specialist, Software Engineer (Cloud Developer)
Added 11 mins ago
STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER
HOME DEPOT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC
Remote, United States
The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers building and designing a product that our customers and associates love. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be…
Added 12 mins ago
Enterprise - Software Engineer - REST, Agile, Linux
Erias Ventures, LLC
Columbia, MD
Added 13 mins ago
Software Engineer Intern (Fall 2026)
Parsons Government Services Inc.
Remote, United States
Parsons is looking for a Software Engineer with an enterprise software d
Added 16 mins ago
Senior/Staff Software Engineer
Vectara
Remote, United States
Vectara is seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer with strong experience in backend development and modern DevOps practices. In this role, you’ll work on building and scaling the…
Added 17 mins ago
Staff Software Engineer
Toro TMS
Remote, United States
We are growing our fully remote Engineering team and looking for an entrepreneurial, product-minded Staff Software Engineer to join our team. The right person will be driven, curious, and…
Added 22 mins ago
Lead Principal Application Software Engineer
Oracle
United States
Added 22 mins ago
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Crusoe
San Francisco, CA · Sunnyvale, CA · Seattle, WA
Added 22 mins ago
Software Architect, Insurance and Payment - athenaCollector
athenahealth, Inc.
Boston, MA
The Software Architect leads architecture strategy for complex software and AI systems in a healthcare environment. This role is based in Boston, MA and follows a hybrid work model. The…
Added 25 mins ago
Lead Software Engineer / .NET Full Stack (on-site)
Truist Bank
United States
Added 26 mins ago
Staff Software Engineer
RealWork
Austin, TX

Speak

Backend Engineer, Payments

San Francisco, CA, United States

$220,000 to $280,000 USD / year

Apply About employer

Applications open in a new tab.

Job details

Pay: $220,000 to $280,000 USD / year
Experience: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including staff-level ownership of production systems
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 2, 2026

Original job description

ABOUT US

Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.

Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.

Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We’re hiring our first dedicated payments engineer to own the reliability of payments at Speak. Every Speak payment is a subscription, and that revenue runs through Paddle, RevenueCat (the App Store and Google Play) and Stripe, with new providers on the way. Until now, payments work has been shared across teams without a single owner. You’ll be that owner: the point of contact and directly responsible engineer for how Speak bills, renews, and grants access to millions of learners.

You’ll start embedded with one of our growth teams, which also owns monetization, and over time anchor payments within our platform organization. As the first engineer in this area, you’ll set the architecture, standards, and roadmap for payments at Speak, with a high degree of autonomy and a direct line to revenue.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Owning the reliability of Speak’s subscription payments end to end, from purchase and renewal through cancellation, refunds, and entitlements
Building and maintaining our integrations with Paddle, RevenueCat, and Stripe in Node.js, and leading the rollout of new payment providers
Designing for correctness: idempotent webhook handling, reconciliation across providers, and safe retries
Putting monitoring, alerting, and runbooks in place so payment issues are caught before learners or finance notice them
Leading incident response and postmortems for payments, and fixing root causes
Setting the standards for how other teams change payments code, and reviewing changes that touch billing
Partnering with growth, product, finance, and support on pricing, paywall experiments, and revenue reporting
Mentoring engineers and raising the reliability bar across our backend

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

10+ years of software engineering experience, including staff-level ownership of production systems
Deep experience building and operating recurring subscription billing for a consumer product
Hands-on experience with App Store or Google Play billing (directly or through RevenueCat), Stripe Billing, or Paddle
Strong backend fundamentals in Node.js and TypeScript or a comparable language, with solid relational database skills
A track record of making payment systems more reliable: fewer incidents, cleaner reconciliation, safer migrations
Comfort defining your own roadmap in an area that doesn’t have one yet
Clear communication with engineering, product, and finance partners
Contributing to an AI-native development workflow - reviewing plans and designs before implementation, creating strong verification loops, and shipping safely with AI-assisted tooling
Excited about working in person in San Francisco at least 3 days per week

NICE TO HAVES

Migrating between payment providers or consolidating several into one system
International payments, taxes, and currencies, especially across APAC markets
Worked on an app used by 1M+ users
Built entitlement systems shared across mobile and web

WHY WORK AT SPEAK

Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.

Speak does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Apply About employer

More about this job

Skills

Node.js
Incident response
Reporting
Coaching
TypeScript
Communication skills
Workflow

Report this job