$160,000–$185,000 · OTE
Senior Software Engineer
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$150,000–$200,000New York, NYHybridSenior
Build AI-enabled software for enterprise clients, taking agentic workflows and early demonstrations through production deployment and operational handoff.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
$150K–$200KBelow the median
Median $188K
This job$150K–$200KTypical senior FDE payMiddle 50% of 1,802 postings$160K–$218KThe work
Builds what the customer runs
Balance
- Mostly building
- Mixed
- Mostly pre-sales or support
Project stages
- Pre-sales
- Proof of concept
- Implementation
- Operations (not covered)
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- External customers
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Technical lead
What they ask for
Experience
Background
Tools
Less common in FDE jobs
- Covers pre-sales24%
- Hybrid34%
- Covers proofs of concept39%
- Individual contributor or manager: Technical lead46%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
What you’ll do
- Build and evaluate agentic workflows and move successful demos toward production.
- Design resilient full-stack systems, integrations, and enterprise data workflows.
- Implement identity, security, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability.
- Coordinate product and domain teams and document operational handoffs.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or software engineering.
- 5–8 years of full-stack engineering experience with products reaching real customers.
- Proficiency in Python or a comparable language and a modern backend stack.
- Hands-on experience building agentic workflows and evaluating AI applications.
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