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Software Engineer salary in Boston
Average Base Salary in Boston
$110,057
$8,556
Additional Cash Compensation
$118,613
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 $110,057. The average additional cash compensation for a Software Engineer in Boston is $8,556. The average total compensation for a Software Engineer in Boston is $118,613. Software Engineer salaries are based on responses gathered by Built In Boston from anonymous Software Engineer employees in Boston.
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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.
Acquia Cloud is looking for software engineers to help extend its cloud based Software as a Service (SaaS) initiatives leveraging distributed systems and cluster computing technologies. Acquia Cloud is a enterprise grade Platform as a Service (PaaS) hosted entirely on Amazon Web Services. We are one of AWS’s largest customers (running 20,000+ EC2 instances) and our platform receives tens of billions of origin hits monthly, and powers some of the largest websites on the Internet.
The Acquia Cloud SaaS Software Engineer will join a high velocity team of engineers enhancing and building robust distributed microservices which are used with the Acquia Cloud platform. The platform is a polyglot system running everything from PHP, Ruby, Java to Go all interacting with multiple distributed services.
You’ll be joining a talented team of DevOps focused software engineers and data scientists, and will contribute to backend as well as frontend components running on AWS cloud infrastructure. As a member of this team you will be responsible for delivering best of the breed applications in a fast-paced, agile environment with great career growth potential. Some of the technologies currently being used are Python (Flask, NumPy, Pandas etc), golang, REST, RAML, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Linux, Docker.
As a Lead 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.
As a Senior 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.
As a Software Engineering Manager 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.
Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate Java services that serve millions of users.
Collaborate with other teams to maximize project effectiveness while reducing waste.
Utilize appropriate frameworks to create highly maintainable code.
Write code that is performant and takes advantage of caching strategies when appropriate
Have a say in future direction of technologies and best practices.
Senior Software Engineer, Web
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Collaborate with Product Management, Creative, and Marketing teams to create our web apps.
Build efficient, well-tested User Interface components in React and Redux.
You will identify bottlenecks to improve performance.
Participate in design sessions, code reviews, and pull requests.
You will also write clean, well-organized, testable, and reusable JS code.
Senior Software Engineer
+16
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our multidisciplinary teams where you’ll work closely with designers, product managers, and data analysts. You’ll be a creative contributor to our processes and decision-making so when we build new features, we can ensure scalability and availability of the entire platform. Sound good to you? Join us.
Senior Software Engineer, Android
+16
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our multidisciplinary teams where you’ll work closely with designers, product managers, and data analysts. You’ll be a creative contributor to our processes and decision-making so that when we build new features, we can ensure scalability and availability of the entire platform. Sound good to you? Join us.
Senior Software Engineer, iOS
+16
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our multidisciplinary teams where you’ll work closely with designers, product managers, and data analysts. You’ll be a creative contributor to our processes and decision-making so that when we build new features, we can ensure scalability and availability of the entire platform. Sound good to you? Join us.
Principal Software Engineer, Platform
+16
We’re growing rapidly. As a Principal Software Engineer at DraftKings, you’ll be a leader within the organization, delivering highly scalable software systems and collaboratively setting the direction of your team. This isn’t just a technical role, though. You will have the opportunity to develop the talented engineers on your team and help them achieve their own potential.
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 $102,821.
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 $85,968.
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 | $99,020 | Min: $62K Max: $138K |
| Salesforce Developer | $101,357 | Min: $76K Max: $110K |
| Automation Engineer | $106,500 | Min: $82K Max: $158K |
| Software Engineer | $110,057 | Min: $47K Max: $158K |
| iOS Developer | $110,286 | Min: $77K Max: $155K |
| Android Developer | $111,167 | Min: $80K Max: $157K |
| Sales Engineer | $114,156 | 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 | $124,310 | Min: $85K Max: $175K |
| Senior Software Engineer | $127,514 | Min: $95K Max: $170K |
| Engineering Manager | $143,814 | Min: $109K Max: $205K |
| QA Manager | $147,875 | Min: $136K Max: $165K |
| Principal Software Engineer | $155,045 | Min: $110K Max: $210K |
| Director of Software Engineering | $180,071 | Min: $162K Max: $198K |
| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) | $182,938 | Min: $90K Max: $230K |
| Vice President of Engineering | $205,158 | Min: $150K Max: $272K |
Boston Companies with the Highest Dev + Engineer Salaries
Skills that affect Software Engineer salaries in Boston
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Javascript
19% have this skill
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SQL
17% have this skill
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Java
13% have this skill
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Python
11% have this skill
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Front-end
11% have this skill
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Amazon Web Services
9% have this skill
Recent Software Engineer salaries in Boston
$107,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $107,000 with +$10,700 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
51-200 Employees
Boston
$97,155
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $97,155 with +$2,000 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$125,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $125,000
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
51-200 Employees
Boston
$120,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer II reported a yearly salary of $120,000 with +$12,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
Boston
$85,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $85,000
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 +$10,000 in additional cash compensation
< 1 Year of Experience
Male
500+ Employees
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
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