Java Engineer I, 100% Remote at MoneyThumb
SAN DIEGO, CA
$90,000–$120,000
Aug 18, 2026
SAN DIEGO, CA
Aug 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A back-end engineering role at a small SaaS company serving small-business finance, focused on building and improving Java services for document parsing and fraud detection. The work spans incremental accuracy and performance improvements, new feature development, and integrations, with an AI/ML component applied to document processing. Suited to a generalist Java engineer who also has hands-on experience training or building AI or ML models.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 35,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 21,200–53,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting requires US residency explicitly ('Live in the United States') but states no specific city or metro, so no CBSA is assigned. The role is assumed to be remote-US given the lack of any office location.
The two hard gates are Java (2+ years) and AI/ML model-building experience (1+ year); everything else — Machine Learning, Generative AI, OCR, REST APIs, SQL, AWS, CI/CD — appears under an explicit 'Bonus points for' section and is treated as preferred.
AI/ML is listed as a required skill (1+ year building models) but the same topics (Machine Learning, Generative AI) also appear in the bonus section with more specific framings; both are captured, with the required gate marked accordingly and the bonus-section entries marked preferred.
Compensation is described only as 'Competitive wages' with no figures provided.
The posting explicitly states no visa sponsorship is available and asks candidates not to use AI tools in the application process — neither affects the structured extraction but may be relevant context for sourcing.
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