Software Engineer II at New Heights
Denver
$80,000–$90,000
Jul 25, 2026
Denver
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role focused on building and iterating on a recruiting platform. Day-to-day work involves writing production code, reviewing peers' code, fixing bugs, and collaborating with product managers, designers, and QA to ship new features. Suited to engineers with at least two years of production coding experience and familiarity with JavaScript and a web framework such as Rails.
Mid level · 2+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $80,000–$90,000
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 16,800 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 12,600–21,800
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). 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 Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title is a bare 'Software Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 2+ years of production code experience and scope of responsibilities (feature delivery, code review, cross-functional collaboration) align with a Mid-level band.
JavaScript is listed under 'You should have' as 'Understanding of Javascript fundamentals' — the section is the primary requirements block, making it a hard gate, though the framing ('understanding of fundamentals') signals a relatively low bar.
Rails is listed in the same section but qualified with 'or another web-based framework', meaning the specific tool is interchangeable; common alternatives are listed accordingly.
The California pay range ($80,000–$90,000/year) is stated explicitly. The posting does not specify a city beyond 'California'; the CBSA is inferred as San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley given Greenhouse's known headquarters, but the actual work location is ambiguous.
The posting contains a 'This is a test' prefix and 'Test' suffix — these appear to be test/placeholder artifacts in the job description and carry no extractable signal.
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