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Software Engineer salary in Boston
Average Base Salary in Boston
$110,221
$8,521
Additional Cash Compensation
$118,742
Total Compensation
Median: $110K
Min: $47K
Max: $158K
How Much Does a Software Engineer Make in Boston?
The average salary for a Software Engineer in Boston is $110,221. The average additional cash compensation for a Software Engineer in Boston is $8,521. The average total compensation for a Software Engineer in Boston is $118,742. Software Engineer salaries are based on responses gathered by Built In Boston from anonymous Software Engineer employees in Boston.
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Boston Companies with the Highest Dev + Engineer Salaries
Software Engineer Salary ranges
The most common Software Engineer salary in Boston is between $110k - $120k.
Average Software Engineer Salary by Company Size
People with the job title Software Engineer make the most at companies with 1-10 employees, earning $120,000 on average.
Software Engineer Salary by gender
The average Software Engineer salary for women is $112,000 and the average Software Engineer salary for men is $102,819.
Software Engineer Salary by Years of Experience
The average salary for a Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience is $130,000. The average salary for <1 year of experience is $81,210.
Average Dev + Engineer salaries in Boston
| Job Title | Average Salary | Salary Range |
|---|---|---|
| QA Analyst | $66,818 | Min: $36K Max: $87K |
| QA Engineer | $94,550 | Min: $70K Max: $161K |
| Software Test Engineer | $96,000 | Min: $68K Max: $125K |
| Front End Developer | $96,968 | Min: $62K Max: $120K |
| Salesforce Developer | $101,357 | Min: $76K Max: $110K |
| Automation Engineer | $106,500 | Min: $82K Max: $158K |
| Software Engineer | $110,221 | Min: $47K Max: $158K |
| iOS Developer | $110,286 | Min: $77K Max: $155K |
| Android Developer | $111,167 | Min: $80K Max: $157K |
| Sales Engineer | $114,129 | Min: $55K Max: $160K |
| Data Engineer | $115,278 | Min: $88K Max: $154K |
| Data Architect | $118,042 | Min: $80K Max: $183K |
| Security Engineer | $123,429 | Min: $65K Max: $156K |
| DevOps Engineer | $125,111 | Min: $87K Max: $175K |
| Senior Software Engineer | $128,698 | Min: $95K Max: $275K |
| Engineering Manager | $144,015 | Min: $109K Max: $205K |
| QA Manager | $147,875 | Min: $136K Max: $165K |
| Principal Software Engineer | $155,613 | Min: $110K Max: $210K |
| Director of Software Engineering | $180,868 | Min: $162K Max: $198K |
| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) | $182,467 | Min: $90K Max: $230K |
| Vice President of Engineering | $205,500 | Min: $170K Max: $272K |
Software Engineer jobs in Boston187
Work in a highly collaborative environment with front end engineers, infrastructure engineers, and product management.
Develop performant, object-oriented applications and APIs using PHP.
Contribute to system architecture discussions, lead projects, mentor junior team members, and deliver high quality, tested code.
Be a key member of the delivery team using Agile Scrum methodology.
As a Software Engineer at CarGurus, you will provide technical leadership in a fast-moving, data-driven environment. You will be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving software. You will deploy code daily and use data to drive our decisions, while delivering software and analytics to consumers and dealers. You will own your projects and collaborate with fellow engineers and product partners as you solve interesting problems with a global impact. And no, you do not need to know about cars to work here.
We are looking for software engineers that enjoy solving complex problems within the crypto space. In this role, you'll join a team of engineers that focus on our Poloniex Services (APIs). We want to work with engineers that have a passion for their craft and care deeply about the experience of the users and operators of the systems they build.
We're looking for highly motivated individuals who seek a fun, collaborative, iterative and fast-paced environment.
As a Data Engineer at Circle, you’ll work closely with the Data Science team productizing machine learning solutions and developing the scalable data pipelines that support these solutions.
Working in either Boston or New York, you’ll have the opportunity to significantly impact internal data consumption and decision-making (risk and compliance, growth, and marketing) as well as our customer experience.
Architect robust RESTful services to collect and provide data on potential customers.
Craft highly efficient, customized campaigns to automate outreach.
Work closely with Data Science and Operations to gather business intelligence firm-wide and make recommendations to improve the entire company.
Operate and maintain enterprise-scale databases and external integrations.
Senior Software Engineer
+19
Build the next generation of our web and mobile products with advanced visualizations.
Enhance and modify web applications to ensure best practices, performance, scalability, security, and optimal user experience.
Research, design, and develop proof-of-concept projects using the latest and most advanced technologies.
Efficiently communicate project status, issues and resolutions in a timely manner.
Design and develop the services that manage Acquia Cloud Caching and Routing layer.
Research, specify, and test cloud hosting architectures leveraging your web, database, and architectural knowledge.
Own the services you build, from proof-of-concept to enterprise level SLA, build, test, deploy and operate.
Collaborate with other functional teams to support the larger Acquia Cloud vision.
Executes projects effectively and efficiently.
Senior Software Engineer
+23
Our engineers are changing history way beyond git rebase -i. The engineering team is involved in every step of the product cycle, working closely with many other teams (and our users!) to brainstorm and build solutions to education’s toughest problems. Sure, we have strong technical chops, but we make sure to constantly challenge ourselves and grow. From lunchtime guest talks and...
Build a secure full-stack web application that allows us to better visualize our liquidity in multiple currencies and bank accounts worldwide, as we focus on international expansion.
Productize machine learning models and build a world-class automated evaluation system to manage risk exposure while delivering the best possible experience to our customers.
Be a hero for our finance team by developing an automated reporting framework that allows new reports to be easily scheduled and downloaded each day, month, quarter or year.
Continue investing in our core technology and shared libraries by making it easier for all teams to use multi-region storage and infrastructure and improve our resilience during outages and increase our uptime.
Build an open transaction protocol where users can send money and exchange value that utilizes both new and traditional technologies to deliver value the fastest and cheapest way possible.
Create, maintain, and extend a diverse array of sustainable tools and systems that will support fast product development and delivery flow, enable team autonomy and cultivate continual learning and experimentation.
Provide new search capabilities across all of our financial partners so that our Customer Support team can more quickly resolve payment issues.
Predict fraud before it happens by facilitating data science model creation and evaluation, and developing a high-performance rules engine.
Leverage blockchain technology in a new transaction framework so that Financial Institutions an exchange value and associated metadata in a compliant manner.
Contribute ideas for our tools, architecture, and implementation.
Collaborate with other teams to help craft elegant solutions to problems.
Develop features on both the frontend (AngularJS) and backend (node.js and dropwizard) of our tools.
Ensure code is well tested through unit and integration tests.
Leverage new technologies in innovative ways.
Take the lead in creating brand new features for the consumer-facing Circle iOS apps (Circle Invest, Circle Pay, and our future apps) from initial specs through the public release and announcement.
Utilize design-driven and data-driven techniques to build a spectacular customer experience.
Collaborate with a fun, passionate team to help craft solutions to problems using the latest iOS technologies.
Build up your knowledge about Circle’s business domains and crypto in general.
Build a secure full-stack web application that allows us to better visualize our liquidity in multiple currencies and bank accounts worldwide, as we focus on international expansion.
Productize machine learning models and build a world-class automated evaluation system to manage risk exposure while delivering the best possible experience to our customers.
Be a hero for our finance team by developing an automated reporting framework that allows new reports to be easily scheduled and downloaded each day, month, quarter or year.
Continue investing in our core technology and shared libraries by making it easier for all teams to use multi-region storage and infrastructure and improve our resilience during outages and increase our uptime.
Build an open transaction protocol where users can send money and exchange value that utilizes both new and traditional technologies to deliver value the fastest and cheapest way possible.
Create, maintain, and extend a diverse array of sustainable tools and systems that will support fast product development and delivery flow, enable team autonomy and cultivate continual learning and experimentation.
Provide new search capabilities across all of our financial partners so that our Customer Support team can more quickly resolve payment issues.
Predict fraud before it happens by facilitating data science model creation and evaluation, and developing a high-performance rules engine.
Skills that affect Software Engineer salaries in Boston
1
Javascript
24% have this skill
2
SQL
19% have this skill
3
Java
18% have this skill
4
Python
13% have this skill
5
Front-end
13% have this skill
6
Amazon Web Services
11% have this skill
Recent Software Engineer salaries in Boston
$103,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $103,000 with +$30,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
1-5 Reports
$115,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $115,000
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Boston
1-5 Reports
$110,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $110,000
5-7 Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Boston
$110,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $110,000
5-7 Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Boston
$70,000
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A Fullstack Developer reported a yearly salary of $70,000
< 1 Year of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Boston
$91,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $91,000 with +$9,100 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$114,000
Yearly Salary
A Member of Technical Staff reported a yearly salary of $114,000
1-3 Years of Experience
Female
201-500 Employees
Boston
$120,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $120,000 with +$2,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
1-10 Employees
Boston
$93,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $93,000 with +$8,000 in additional cash compensation
< 1 Year of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$150,000
Yearly Salary
A Platform Engineer reported a yearly salary of $150,000
3-5 Years of Experience
Female
11-50 Employees
Boston
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