Software Engineer at The Corporate
$104,000–$114,400
Jul 28, 2026
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Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A 6–10 month contract role building and shipping production-grade AI-enabled applications on Azure. The engineer will take AI proofs-of-concept and MVPs through to full production by designing APIs and services, establishing CI/CD pipelines, integrating with enterprise systems, and enforcing software engineering best practices. Deep ML modeling is not expected, but hands-on familiarity with RAG, agentic workflows, and LLM integrations is required.
Senior level · Remote · Contract
Pay in the description: $50–$55/hr
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,500–16,600
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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting lists multiple approved metro areas across the US; New York City is used as the representative CBSA here, but the role is fully remote and candidates may reside near any of the 14 listed metros.
The database/storage technologies (Neo4j, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka) are presented as a group under 'strong experience with one or more of the following' — meaning the gate is on at least one of them, not all. Neo4j is listed first and used as the primary skill; the others appear as alternatives or separately as preferred context. Kafka is listed in the same group but is a distinct technology (event streaming) rather than a database substitute, so it is kept as a separate entry.
GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are explicitly listed as required tools under Required Qualifications; Claude Code is captured as an alternative since the posting treats them as interchangeable ('or similar').
The preferred qualifications (PoC-to-production experience, enterprise security/identity/networking, working with AI Engineering teams, production AI support) name no additional concrete technologies beyond what is already captured in required skills.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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