$61k - $101k
Salary: $61,000 - 101,000 per year Requirements: We expect formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, plus at least 2 years of applied experience. We require hands-on full-stack development experi…
Engineering & IT · Columbus, OH
Software Engineer jobs in Columbus, OH
Software engineers design, build, and maintain the applications and systems behind modern products. The work spans writing code, reviewing designs, and keeping software reliable as it grows.
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changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you’ve come to the right place. As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking CTC, you provide e…
$70k - $140k
DescriptionPosition SummaryThe Collaboration Platform Principal Engineer is a senior engineering leadership role responsible for the strategic service engineering, operational excellence, and continual modernization of H…
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within CCB, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable wa…
path of your career and guide multiple teams to success at one of the world's leading financial institutions. As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Employee Platforms, you lead multiple teams a…
$141.2k - $278.3k
Position Summary Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer II - Workplace Engineering/M365 AI & Engineering helps organizations build, deploy, and operate integrated solutions across software, data, AI, networks, and hybrid clo…
collaboration opportunities. Enhance your skills in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment.Job DescriptionSoftware Developer OverviewAs a Software Developer, you will contribute to diverse technical projects spanning…
a world-renowned and influential company. Among top performers, you can make a direct and meaningful impact.As a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Windows Server Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector Co…
experiences and next generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers. As a member of our Software Engineering Group you will dive head-first into creating innovative solutions that advan…
$110.7k - $218.3k
Position Summary Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Senior ConsultantDeloitte's Sales & Service practice partners with the world's leading life sciences companies to reimagine how their commercial, medical, and field organiz…
Strong Application Development work experience - Agile environment preferredSolid application design, coding, testing, maintenance and debugging skills Experience with Junit and Cucumber testing.Experience with APM Monit…
and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.We're seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer who thrives on hard systems problems. Welding is where we started — but the m…
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What software engineers earn in Columbus
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $34–$48 | $71k–$100k |
| Mid level | $48–$68 | $100k–$142k |
| Senior | $66–$91 | $138k–$190k |
Adjusted for the Columbus market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Data structures and algorithmsSystem designGit and code reviewTesting and debuggingSQL and databasesAPIs and integrationCloud fundamentals (AWS/GCP/Azure)Clear written communicationCross-team collaboration
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Walk me through a project you built and the technical decisions behind it.
Pick one project and go deep. Explain the tradeoffs you weighed, not just the stack you used, and name one thing you would do differently now.
How would you design a URL shortener (or similar small system)?
Start with requirements and rough scale before drawing boxes. Interviewers care more about how you reason through storage, uniqueness, and reads versus writes than a perfect answer.
Tell me about the hardest bug you have debugged.
Describe your process: how you reproduced it, narrowed the cause, and confirmed the fix. A methodical story beats a dramatic one.
How do you decide when code is good enough to ship?
Talk about tests, review, and risk relative to the change. Showing judgment about tradeoffs matters more than claiming perfection.
Describe a time you disagreed with a teammate about a technical approach.
Show that you argued from evidence, listened, and committed to the outcome. Avoid stories where the point is simply that you were right.
How do you approach learning an unfamiliar codebase?
Mention concrete tactics: reading tests, tracing a request end to end, making a small safe change first. This signals you can become productive quickly.
What would you do if a production incident happened right before a deadline?
Prioritize stabilizing production and communicating early. Interviewers want calm triage, not heroics.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For software engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Name the languages and frameworks per role or project, not just in a skills block, so screeners can match you to the stack.
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Quantify outcomes in engineering terms: latency reduced, error rate cut, deploy time shortened, users served.
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Link to a GitHub profile or portfolio only if the pinned work is recent and readable.
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Describe your role on team projects precisely — 'built the payments service' reads very differently from 'worked on payments'.
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Keep the tech list honest; anything on the resume is fair game in the interview.
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For senior roles, show scope: systems owned, engineers mentored, decisions driven.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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