Junior Software Engineer at MTA Headquarters
Jamaica
$92,396–$109,058from the description
Jul 26, 2026
Jamaica
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An entry-level software engineering role within a large public transit authority's IT department, focused on coding, testing, debugging, and documenting software across the full development lifecycle. The work spans web and cloud-based application development, requirements gathering, test case design, and configuration management. Suited to candidates with an associate's degree or equivalent and at least two years of relevant programming experience across languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript.
Junior level · 2+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,550 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,150–2,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). 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 (8)
The role is titled 'Junior' and requires a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, which aligns with a Junior/entry-level band.
An Associate's degree is listed as the minimum, but the JD explicitly accepts 'an equivalent combination of education, certification, and experience in lieu of a degree,' so no hard degree gate applies.
The posting is hybrid (one day per week telework), not fully remote.
The programming languages section lists a broad set of options (Ruby, Python, Java, C, C++, C#, COBOL, JavaScript, J2EE, .NET, Oracle, MS-SQL) as interchangeable examples under a required technical skills block; Python is used as the primary representative with the others captured as alternatives.
Azure and AWS are listed together as vendor-specific platform familiarity under the required technical skills block; Azure is the primary with AWS as an alternative.
React, Power Apps, Dynamics, Power BI, middleware technologies (IIS/TIBCO/WebLogic/Tomcat), BI Publisher, SQR, and PeopleSoft all appear in the required technical skills section but are framed with 'experience with' or 'familiarity with' and read more as stack context than hard gates — marked as preferred accordingly.
The 'Preferred Technical Skills' section covers generic conceptual knowledge (data structures, algorithms, DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud) with no specific named tools, so no additional skills were extracted from that section.
A QA/testing runner-up SOC (15-1253) is noted because the responsibilities include designing test cases, test scripts, test data, and executing acceptance tests alongside general software development duties.
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