Software Engineer jobs in New York

Duolingo

Full-time · New York, NY · $182,800 – $247,300

Duolingo seeks a backend engineer to build and operate reliable, scalable systems that power their learning platform and monetization infrastructure. This role suits engineers with strong fundamentals in systems design who want to take ownership of complex technical problems in a data-driven environment serving hundreds of millions of learners.

Listed on Duolingo’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Ro

New York, NY · $211,700 – $292,000

This role involves architecting and shipping frontend systems for a vertically integrated healthcare platform that scales to millions of patients. You'll own services end-to-end, solve high-concurrency challenges, and work closely with clinical and technical leadership to reshape how modern healthcare is delivered digitally.

Listed on Ro’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Blumberg Portfolio

Full-time · New York, NY · $158,000 – $248,000

Addepar seeks a staff-level backend engineer to design and build data integration systems that help investment firms onboard their financial data onto the platform. This role suits someone with deep expertise in data processing and distributed systems who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and mentoring others.

Listed on Blumberg Portfolio’s careers site · Apply there ↗

The New York Times Company

Full-time · New York, NY · $140,000 – $180,000

This role involves building AI-assisted developer tools and platforms that help engineers across The New York Times work more efficiently and safely. It's suited for experienced engineers who enjoy infrastructure work and want to apply generative AI to solve real developer workflow problems.

Listed on The New York Times Company’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Pendo

New York, NY · $300,000 – $325,000

Staff-level role building AI-native products and systems within a product intelligence platform. Suited for experienced engineers who combine deep LLM expertise with product thinking, thrive in ambiguity, and can drive technical decisions and cross-team influence at scale.

Listed on Pendo’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Evertune

Full-time · New York, NY · $120,000 – $300,000 · Remote

This role is a full stack engineering position at an AI marketing platform startup, suitable for generalists comfortable building across both frontend and backend while working closely with product and design teams. The company, backed by top-tier investors and founders from The Trade Desk, is hiring for a hybrid office setup in NYC, Seattle, or Denver to help scale their AI discovery platform for brands.

Listed on Evertune’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Suno

Full-time · New York, NY · $228,960 – $363,510

Suno seeks a backend engineer to own the complete commerce platform—billing, payments, subscriptions, and financial reconciliation—at a rapidly scaling AI music company. This role suits someone with deep experience in high-stakes systems who thinks obsessively about failure modes and wants to shape both technical architecture and revenue strategy.

Listed on Suno’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Sola

Full-time · New York, NY · $150,000 – $300,000

This is a backend engineering role at an AI automation startup building workflow orchestration systems for enterprise customers. It suits engineers who want to work on distributed systems and AI infrastructure at an early-stage company with strong funding and Fortune 100 traction.

Listed on Sola’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Eight Sleep

Full-time · New York, NY

This role involves building the technical systems that power Eight Sleep's customer support operations, including AI-driven tools, integrations, and dashboards that help resolve customer issues at scale. It suits experienced full stack engineers who enjoy working independently on complex systems and want to apply AI and automation to real customer problems.

Listed on Eight Sleep’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Cohere

Full-time · New York, NY · $190,000 – $325,000 · Remote

Cohere seeks a Staff Software Engineer to build and operate the inference infrastructure powering their enterprise AI models, focusing on high-performance distributed systems and GPU workload orchestration. This role suits experienced infrastructure engineers who excel at designing large-scale Kubernetes deployments and optimizing systems for low-latency, high-throughput production environments.

Listed on Cohere’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Udio

New York, NY · $180,000 – $220,000

This role owns the backend systems that organize content, power search and discovery, and serve real-time features at scale. It suits experienced engineers who enjoy building data pipelines, metadata systems, and high-reliability infrastructure that directly shapes the user experience.

Listed on Udio’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Confido

New York, NY · $300,000 – $330,000

You'll architect and lead development of the financial automation platform that helps CPG brands manage cash flow, deductions, and planning at scale. This role suits experienced engineers who want deep ownership of complex systems—from AI-powered document processing to large-scale data infrastructure—while shaping product strategy at a well-funded startup.

Listed on Confido’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Modal

New York, NY · $180,000 – $240,000

Modal is looking for engineers to work directly with AI companies on building production infrastructure, combining deep systems knowledge with customer engagement. This role suits people who enjoy switching between hands-on architecture work and advising technical leaders on infrastructure decisions.

Listed on Modal’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Brilliant

New York, NY · Remote

Brilliant is seeking experienced software engineers for future consideration rather than immediate hiring. This is best suited for exceptional practitioners with proven track records of significant impact who are interested in joining a selective, collaborative team building adaptive learning products.

Listed on Brilliant’s careers site · Apply there ↗

LangChain

New York, NY · $180,000 – $240,000

LangSmith is seeking a backend engineer to build the observability and evaluation systems that power their AI agent platform, handling tracing, monitoring, and data processing at scale. This role suits someone comfortable with complex distributed systems who wants to shape how developers monitor production AI applications.

Listed on LangChain’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · New York, NY · $320,000 – $485,000

This is a high-risk, fast-moving security engineering role focused on building novel protections for AI systems before they become critical infrastructure. The team runs week-long experimental bets on problems like cryptographic proof of model integrity, hardened compute clusters, and verified compilation—and expects most to fail; it suits engineers with deep expertise in one hard area (cryptography, kernel internals, hardware security, formal methods) who have shipped things on their own and want to swing at problems that might not work rather than incrementally harden what exists.

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s careers site · Apply there ↗

CoinDesk

New York, NY · $180,000 – $230,000

This role builds the core infrastructure and data systems for a regulated digital asset clearing platform, handling risk management, settlement and regulatory reporting at scale. It suits experienced backend engineers who have worked on mission-critical systems in finance and want to apply distributed systems expertise to blockchain infrastructure.

Listed on CoinDesk’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Blackstone Group

New York, NY · $160,000 – $225,000

Blackstone's Liquid Credit Technology team is hiring a senior software engineer to build and maintain fixed-income trading systems serving their $114B credit business. This role suits experienced engineers comfortable with microservices, cloud infrastructure, and mentoring others in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Listed on Blackstone Group’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Plug n Play Portfolio

Full-time · New York, NY · $245,000 – $270,000 · Remote

A hands-on staff engineer role building AI-native systems for insurance claims processing, where you'll own both the architectural decisions and the code that makes them real. This suits experienced engineers who thrive moving between prototyping new ideas and sustaining complex production systems, and who want to shape technical direction across a growing platform.

Listed on Plug n Play Portfolio’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Garage

Full-time · New York, NY · $150,000 – $250,000

This role builds the data infrastructure, internal tools, and AI-powered systems that power Garage's sales machine for specialty asset transactions. It suits engineers who thrive in startup environments, think in systems, and want to apply AI and automation to solve real-world sales and operational challenges.

Listed on Garage’s careers site · Apply there ↗

Deepgram

New York, NY · $197,000 – $307,000

Join Deepgram's Applied AI team to build production voice systems solving enterprise problems at the cutting edge of speech AI. You'll work with leading companies on challenges like robust speech recognition in noisy environments, model fine-tuning, and voice agent evaluation—roles where much of the work is genuinely novel.

Listed on Deepgram’s careers site · Apply there ↗