Irvine, CA

Salary
$119,000–$154,000from the description
Posted
Aug 6, 2026
Location
Irvine, CA
Last confirmed open
Sep 24, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A backend-leaning software engineering role on Matterport's Platform Engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and deploying features and services that serve as the entry point for all Matterport products. The work involves high-scale API and microservices development in Kotlin, integration with relational and non-relational data stores, and collaboration with cross-functional product and QA teams. Suited to early-career engineers with at least one year of cloud-based SaaS development experience.

Junior level · 1+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time

Must have (1)
Kotlin or Java
Nice to have (7)
Docker or KubernetesMySQL or PostgreSQLRabbitMQ or KafkaPythonElasticsearchFoundationDBReact or Angular

“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 1,300 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 960–1,650

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 $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 7, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (4)

Kotlin and Java are listed together as 'such as Java and/or Server-side Kotlin' under Basic Qualifications; they are treated as interchangeable gates on OOP language experience rather than two separate hard requirements.

Docker and Kubernetes are listed together under Preferred Qualifications as microservices examples; similarly, MySQL/PostgreSQL, and RabbitMQ/Kafka are paired as interchangeable preferred options.

The role is based in Irvine, CA (within the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim CBSA) with a hybrid Mon–Thu in-office / Fri WFH schedule — it is not fully remote.

No visa sponsorship is available per the posting.

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