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Software Engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA
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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mix of remote and onsite employees and offices in San Francisco, the South Bay, and the East Bay. We are looking for a senior software engineer who has fully embraced AI tooling and wants to stay at the forefront of how…
About the Role We’re hiring full-stack/backend engineers who love simplifying complex systems, unifying fragmented data, and building... ...systems, syncing financial data across fragmented legacy software in real time.…
$130k - $170k
SUSA Ventures, 1Sharpe Ventures, and leaders from Invitation Homes and Opendoor. About the Role Flock is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our small, high-impact product team. We’re building a 10x version of…
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infrastructure The Role The client is hiring full-stack/backend engineers who love simplifying complex systems, unifying fragmented data... ...systems syncing financial data across fragmented legacy software in real time…
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reliable, useful, and ubiquitous. We combine a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity for the world.... ...! Overview We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Software Engi…
healthcare e-commerce startup building a platform that makes it simple to shop for any type of care. They are seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale their healthcare store — working across the sta…
Job Description Job Description Full-Stack Software Developer Redwood City, CA or Toronto, Ontario, Canada | On-Site | Direct Hire... ...development lifecycle, from requirements and planning through engineering, deployme…
Our team is small, flat, and ambitious. We value craft, intellectual rigor, and direct communication. About the role Platform engineers build the systems that let Lassie’s agents do real work reliably: integrations, orch…
OPPORTUNITIES * Note: By applying to this posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring for Full-Stack Software Engineers will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your…
Description Zyphra is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California. The Role: As a Full-Stack Software Engineer , you will be a core contributor to Zyphra’s Agentic Systems and Interaction projec…
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Job Description Job Description About the Role A growing technology startup is hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale its core product. This engineer will work across the frontend and backen…
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What software engineers earn in San Francisco
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $50–$71 | $105k–$147k |
| Mid level | $71–$101 | $147k–$210k |
| Senior | $98–$135 | $203k–$280k |
Adjusted for the San Francisco 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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Typical progression
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