Software Engineer Jobs in New York
Software Engineer jobs in New York are among the most active in the country, with strong demand from entry-level to senior across finance and fintech, media and advertising technology, enterprise software, and a dense startup ecosystem anchored in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Buffalo. The largest hiring metros are New York City, Albany, and Rochester, where established employers like JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, and IBM maintain significant engineering operations. Full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning engineering are the specialties appearing most consistently in New York listings. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Pittsburgh, PA, USA; New York, NY, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with ML design and end-to-end machine learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
- 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
- Experience applying machine learning techniques to search ranking performance and information retrieval systems.
- Experience building recommendation systems to provide user-specific item or content suggestions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience solving open-ended quality problems, identifying systemic gaps, and driving root-cause analysis to resolve them.
- Experience building user-facing AI features.
- Experience designing system architecture and AI/ML-powered solutions.
- Experience defining long-term technical vision and establishing roadmaps for problem spaces.
- Ability to drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, and partner organizations.
- Ability to move quickly in rapidly changing environments.
About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
"The Google Commerce team is driving the shift toward agentic commerce—moving beyond static interactions to build intelligent, adaptive shopping experiences. By bringing Gemini into AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, we're making shopping even more intuitive. Powered by the Google Shopping Graph's 60B+ listings, our team is helping to establish open industry standards like the Universal Commerce Protocol. We're building shopping experiences across Google, including Search, the Gemini app, YouTube, and Ads, to help people discover and buy products from the brands they love and trust on Google.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical strategy and quality improvements across Shopping GenAI surfaces for visual actionable entities, prioritizing triggering, completeness, and product/offer quality.
- Design and deploy feature enhancements by utilizing prompt optimization, entity annotation, and novel grounding strategies to improve actionable entity quality.
- Analyze performance gaps through rigorous loss analysis, collaborating with cross-functional partners to identify and implement solutions across the Gemini & Shopping stack.
- Contribute to architectural improvements by applying model and infrastructure advances to ensure actionable entities perform reliably and effectively.
- Collaborate across engineering teams—including Consumer Shopping, Merchant, and GDM—to resolve GenAI feature, Shopping Graph data, policy, and retrieval issues.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Pittsburgh, PA, USA; New York, NY, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with ML design and end-to-end machine learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
- 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
- Experience applying machine learning techniques to search ranking performance and information retrieval systems.
- Experience building recommendation systems to provide user-specific item or content suggestions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience solving open-ended quality problems, identifying systemic gaps, and driving root-cause analysis to resolve them.
- Experience building user-facing AI features.
- Experience designing system architecture and AI/ML-powered solutions.
- Experience defining long-term technical vision and establishing roadmaps for problem spaces.
- Ability to drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, and partner organizations.
- Ability to move quickly in rapidly changing environments.
About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
"The Google Commerce team is driving the shift toward agentic commerce—moving beyond static interactions to build intelligent, adaptive shopping experiences. By bringing Gemini into AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, we're making shopping even more intuitive. Powered by the Google Shopping Graph's 60B+ listings, our team is helping to establish open industry standards like the Universal Commerce Protocol. We're building shopping experiences across Google, including Search, the Gemini app, YouTube, and Ads, to help people discover and buy products from the brands they love and trust on Google.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical strategy and quality improvements across Shopping GenAI surfaces for visual actionable entities, prioritizing triggering, completeness, and product/offer quality.
- Design and deploy feature enhancements by utilizing prompt optimization, entity annotation, and novel grounding strategies to improve actionable entity quality.
- Analyze performance gaps through rigorous loss analysis, collaborating with cross-functional partners to identify and implement solutions across the Gemini & Shopping stack.
- Contribute to architectural improvements by applying model and infrastructure advances to ensure actionable entities perform reliably and effectively.
- Collaborate across engineering teams—including Consumer Shopping, Merchant, and GDM—to resolve GenAI feature, Shopping Graph data, policy, and retrieval issues.
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Software Engineer Job Market in New York
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Who's Hiring
- Amazon57
- JPMorganChase39
- Meta31
- Google28
- M&T Bank27
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software229
- Investment & Asset Management52
- Science & Research24
- Banking & Financial Services21
- Consulting & Professional Services20
What New York Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in software engineer jobs across New York.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Proficiency in one or more languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, or Go
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable distributed systems or APIs
- Familiarity with cloud platforms including AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate within agile or scrum development teams
- Strong problem-solving skills assessed through technical interviews and coding challenges
Software Engineer Jobs in New York: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a software engineer in New York?
New York does not require a state-issued license to work as a software engineer, so the path runs through education and demonstrated technical skill. Most employers in New York hire candidates with a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, though strong portfolios and bootcamp credentials are accepted at many companies. Building projects, contributing to open-source work, and earning cloud certifications strengthen any application in the New York market.
How much do software engineers make in New York?
Software engineers in New York earn a median of about $166,180 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $97,430 for the lowest 10% to over $224,590 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire software engineers in New York?
Employers hiring software engineers in New York right now include Amazon, JPMorganChase, and Meta, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. New York's concentration of financial institutions, media companies, and enterprise technology firms means software engineering roles appear across a wide range of industries beyond pure tech.
Which New York cities have the most software engineer jobs?
New York, Buffalo, and New York are the New York cities with the most software engineer openings, driven primarily by the concentration of financial services, media, and enterprise tech headquarters in New York City, while Albany's state government and healthcare institutions and Rochester's optics, imaging, and advanced manufacturing sector sustain consistent demand outside the main metro.
Are there remote software engineer jobs in New York?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 62% of software engineer openings tied to New York are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how naturally desk-based and tool-driven this work is. Backend development, cloud engineering, and data-focused roles tend to be the most consistently remote, while roles involving on-site infrastructure, trading floors, or embedded systems typically require in-person presence.
How can I get hired as a software engineer in New York with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is an associate or junior software engineer role at a mid-size New York company or a structured new-graduate program at a larger employer. JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, and IBM all run formal early-career engineering programs in New York that accept recent graduates. Candidates who come from adjacent roles like QA analyst or technical support, or who hold a cloud certification and a portfolio of personal or open-source projects, consistently have an edge in New York entry-level hiring.
Where can I find and apply to software engineer jobs in New York?
You can find and apply to software engineer jobs in New York on Migrate Mate, which lists current New York openings updated in real time. Search the listings, find roles that match your background and location, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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