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Software Engineer salary in Boston
Average Base Salary in Boston
$111,332
$6,275
Additional Cash Compensation
$117,607
Total Compensation
Median: $111K
Min: $47K
Max: $158K
How Much Does a Software Engineer Make in Boston?
The average salary for a Software Engineer in Boston is $111,332. The average additional cash compensation for a Software Engineer in Boston is $6,275. The average total compensation for a Software Engineer in Boston is $117,607. 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 51-200 employees, earning $116,619 on average.
Software Engineer Salary by gender
The average Software Engineer salary for women is $108,333 and the average Software Engineer salary for men is $106,580.
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 $80,920.
Average Dev + Engineer salaries in Boston
| Job Title | Average Salary | Salary Range |
|---|---|---|
| QA Analyst | $66,500 | Min: $36K Max: $87K |
| Software Test Engineer | $94,417 | Min: $68K Max: $125K |
| QA Engineer | $95,447 | Min: $70K Max: $161K |
| Front End Developer | $99,500 | Min: $62K Max: $120K |
| Salesforce Developer | $101,357 | Min: $76K Max: $110K |
| Automation Engineer | $106,500 | Min: $82K Max: $158K |
| iOS Developer | $110,286 | Min: $77K Max: $155K |
| Android Developer | $110,700 | Min: $80K Max: $157K |
| Software Engineer | $111,332 | Min: $47K Max: $158K |
| Sales Engineer | $113,500 | Min: $55K Max: $160K |
| Data Engineer | $115,000 | Min: $88K Max: $154K |
| Security Engineer | $117,600 | Min: $65K Max: $156K |
| Data Architect | $118,042 | Min: $80K Max: $183K |
| DevOps Engineer | $125,111 | Min: $87K Max: $175K |
| Senior Software Engineer | $129,276 | 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 | $180,917 | Min: $162K Max: $198K |
| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) | $193,917 | Min: $165K Max: $228K |
| Vice President of Engineering | $205,615 | Min: $170K Max: $272K |
Software Engineer jobs in Boston159
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.
Enhance the performance and reliability of staff interfaces and tools.
Debug intriguing issues across large-scale installations.
Integrate with SaaS, internal systems and our customer-facing products.
Extend CI and testing on all code.
Build and enhance internal APIs.
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.
Software Engineer
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CloudHealth Technologies is looking for engineers to join our amazing team as we scale the business and work on a wide variety of exciting and challenging projects.
About You: You have an analytical mind, an independent spirit, passion for the craft of software engineering, and the ability to execute in an agile environment.
Meet CarGurus—the #1 visited online car shopping website in the US. At CarGurus, we’re building the world’s most trusted and transparent automotive marketplace where it’s easy to find great deals from top-rated dealers.
Founded in 2006 by Langley Steinert (co-founder of TripAdvisor), CarGurus is a technology company with a passion for data and its power to simplify every aspect of the car shopping experience. Using proprietary technology, search
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.
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.
As a Risk Engineer at Circle, you’re part of the team creating the rules engine framework and productizing machine learning models to build a world-class real-time automated risk evaluation system. We work across Data Science, Product, Platform and Compliance to manage risk exposure while delivering the best possible experience to our customers.
Take the lead in developing product features from initial specs and API development, to the public release and announcement.
Design and implement the APIs that Circle’s iOS, Android and Web clients run on.
Collaborate with a fun, passionate team to help craft solutions to problems using the latest technologies.
Learn more about Circle’s business domains while instructing others about development and design.
Create, own, and iterate upon product features that will shape the future of the company.
Collaborate with a fun, passionate team to help craft elegant solutions to problems using the latest technologies.
Develop features on both the frontend (AngularJS) and backend (node.js) of our product.
Build an app that your friends and family will love to use.
Meet CarGurus—the #1 visited online car shopping website in the US. At CarGurus, we’re building the world’s most trusted and transparent automotive marketplace where it’s easy to find great deals from top-rated dealers.
Founded in 2006 by Langley Steinert (co-founder of TripAdvisor), CarGurus is a technology company with a passion for data and its power to simplify every aspect of the car shopping experience. Using proprietary technology, search
Skills that affect Software Engineer salaries in Boston
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Javascript
29% have this skill
2
Java
25% have this skill
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Python
21% have this skill
4
SQL
14% have this skill
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Front-end
14% have this skill
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Amazon Web Services
14% have this skill
Recent Software Engineer salaries in Boston
$104,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $104,000 with +$10,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$140,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $140,000
7+ Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$125,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $125,000
5-7 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$110,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $110,000
< 1 Year of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
Boston
$112,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $112,000 with +$11,200 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$115,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $115,000 with +$10,000 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Female
500+ Employees
Boston
$82,700
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $82,700
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
Boston
$105,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $105,000 with +$3,000 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
51-200 Employees
Boston
$90,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $90,000
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$118,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $118,000
5-7 Years of Experience
Female
11-50 Employees
Boston
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