Application Developer at City of New York
New York City, NY
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Jul 22, 2026
New York City, NY
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on maintaining and improving Centre 360, a public-facing online reservation platform for a panoramic observation experience atop a New York City municipal building. Day-to-day work involves fixing bugs, building new features, supporting reservation and capacity-management functionality, contributing to API integrations, and keeping the system secure and well-documented. Occasional development support for other citywide systems managed by the same internal team is also expected.
Mid 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 33,900 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 14,300–51,000
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 $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
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 (6)
The posting is for a NYC civil service title 'Computer Specialist (Software) – 13632'. The minimum qualification is a bachelor's degree plus 2 years of software experience OR 6 years of experience without a degree — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of a degree, the degree requirement is set to None.
The job description names very few concrete technologies. The role centers on maintaining and enhancing 'Centre 360', a public-facing reservation platform, with responsibilities including API integration, data migration, reporting, and dashboard development — but no specific languages, frameworks, or databases are called out anywhere in the posting.
API development is listed as a direct responsibility ('Contribute to API development and integration with other City systems') and is treated as a hard requirement given its placement in the core duties section. SQL and dashboards are inferred from 'data migration, reporting, and dashboard development' but appear in a softer 'as needed' context, so they are marked preferred.
The title carries no seniority modifier ('Application Developer'), so the title states no level. The 2-year minimum experience floor and the framing of reporting to senior staff support a Mid classification.
No compensation figures are published in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API development.
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