Menands, NY

Salary
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Location
Menands, NY
Last confirmed open
Jul 20, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A full-time, on-site developer role focused on modernizing a state health data system, enabling it to integrate collected data across New York State Department of Health platforms. Day-to-day work covers application maintenance, feature development, defect resolution, report building, and release management, using Java/Spring Boot on the back end and Angular/TypeScript on the front end, with Oracle or PostgreSQL databases. Suits an experienced developer comfortable working from technical design through to production deployment.

Mid level · 4+ years · Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY · Bachelor's required · Full-time

Must have (4)
Java · 4+ yrsSpring Boot · 4+ yrsJava EE · 4+ yrsOracle SQL or PostgreSQL · 4+ yrs
Nice to have (5)
Angular · 4+ yrsTypeScript · 4+ yrsREST · 4+ yrsGit · 4+ yrsCI/CD

“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 40 people in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–60

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
Spring Boot14%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Oracle SQL51%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $130,723 (middle half $99,021–$164,663).

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 title 'Level 2 Software Developer' is an internal classification level, not a standard seniority label (Junior/Mid/Senior); it is treated as Unspecified for advertised seniority. The 4-year experience requirement and scope of work (team-level delivery, no org-wide authority) map to Mid-level.

A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent is explicitly required, and a copy must be submitted — treated as a hard degree gate.

Oracle SQL and PostgreSQL are listed together as interchangeable examples of the required relational database platform; Oracle SQL is named first with PostgreSQL as the alternative.

Angular and TypeScript appear under Preferred Qualifications, as does REST API experience, Git, and CI/CD familiarity — all marked preferred.

CI/CD is listed as 'Familiar with' under Preferred Qualifications, so no years demanded is applied.

No compensation range is stated in the posting.

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