Senior Software Engineer II
Signifyd
$170,000–$220,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior back-end engineering role focused on designing and maintaining the public-facing API platform and data ingestion services that retailers use to connect with and onboard onto Signifyd's platform. The work involves building large-scale, real-time distributed systems, contributing to technical design reviews, managing operational health through observability tooling, and mentoring teammates. Suited to engineers with a strong background in distributed systems and platform API development.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,100–18,300
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 JD states 'Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience' — since equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, no formal degree is hard-required.
Compensation is tiered by geography: $190K–$220K (Tier 1: NYC/SF Bay Area/Seattle), $180K–$210K (Tier 2: DC Metro/Austin/Chicago/Denver/Boston/LA/San Diego), $170K–$200K (Tier 3: all other US). The min/max fields reflect the full national range across all tiers.
The role is additionally eligible for up to 10% annual performance bonus and a grant of 6,000 stock options.
Java, SQL, gRPC, REST, distributed systems/public-facing APIs, cloud (AWS or GCP), and AI coding assistants are all listed under the Requirements section and treated as hard gates. The 'Our Stack' section lists Kubernetes, Docker, Cassandra, Bigtable, Databricks, and Pub/Sub as stack context rather than explicit requirements, so those are marked preferred.
Pub/Sub was omitted as a named skill because the posting lists it without further context and it is ambiguous between Google Cloud Pub/Sub and a generic messaging pattern; the stack context is already captured by the other preferred tools listed.
'Functional style' programming experience is called out in Requirements but names no specific language or tool, so it is not emitted as a discrete skill.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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