Staff Software Engineer
HungerRush · Houston, TX
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Jul 19, 2026
Houston, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on full-stack development of a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for restaurants. Day-to-day work spans architecture, design, coding, testing, and release across the full development cycle, with an emphasis on Microsoft technologies (C#, Azure, SQL Server) and distributed systems. The role also involves mentoring engineers and acting as a technical partner to non-technical business teams.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 14,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,900–22,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title is 'Staff Engineer' but the actual requirements — 10+ years, full-stack delivery, mentoring, architecture contributions — are consistent with a Senior individual contributor. The posting does not describe cross-team technical direction or org-wide platform ownership that would firmly place this at the Staff band; seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
Azure is listed both as a required Microsoft technology and as a 'preferred' cloud environment ('Azure preferred'). Because it appears in the required qualifications block, it is treated as a hard gate.
Angular, Vue.js, and Bootstrap are listed together under Preferred Qualifications; they are captured as a single skill with alternatives since the posting groups them as interchangeable front-end framework experience.
Redis Cache, Azure Service Bus, and SQL Azure appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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