Junior Software Engineer
Waymark
$85,000–$137,000from the description
Jul 5, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An entry-level engineering role focused on building and maintaining software that supports care delivery teams serving Medicaid patients. Day-to-day work involves shipping features and fixing bugs across a stack that includes Elixir, React, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL, with mentorship from a senior engineer. Suited to early-career developers with some hands-on web development experience and familiarity with version control.
Junior level · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,800–14,400
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.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (7)
The role is explicitly titled 'Junior Software Engineer' and is described as 'a role for someone early in their engineering career' — both advertised level and actual requirements align at Junior.
Compensation is quoted as multiple geographic ranges; the figures above reflect the full span across all listed US markets ($82,000–$137,000). The min/max fields capture the absolute floor and ceiling across all tiers.
Elixir, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GitHub, Jira, and Git appear in the 'What you'll do in your first six months' section describing day-to-day work, and are treated as hard requirements for the role even though the JD explicitly notes 'No prior Elixir experience required — we'll teach it.' Elixir is retained as a required skill because it is the primary language of the platform the engineer will ship code in from day one.
React is listed as the primary web framework alternative alongside Next.js and Phoenix (Elixir's web framework); alternatives are captured accordingly. Because the JD gates on familiarity with 'at least one modern web application framework,' these are treated as interchangeable options for a single requirement.
Functional programming, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines appear under the explicit 'Preferred Qualifications' heading and are marked as preferred.
The role is remote-eligible (work-from-home stipend offered, multiple geographic pay tiers listed across the US), though no single primary office location is mandated. San Francisco/Bay Area is listed first and is used as the primary CBSA; the role effectively covers all listed US metros.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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