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Software engineering

The words software engineering posts use far more than other fields’ posts, and what they ask you to prove. Pick a specialty and level to see posts like the ones you’re applying to.

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The words this field uses

Share is how many of these posts use the word. A word only counts when its posts use it far more than other fields’ posts do, and when at least 5 companies use it. Only use a word where your real experience backs it up. This shows how your field describes the work; it is not a list of claims to add.

1488 posts

  1. design

    “Partner Closely with Design and Product:” Idme, Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack – Commerce & Loyalty (Shop)

  2. code

    “Write and push code for the Popl Backend” Popl, Senior Backend Engineer

  3. systems

    “Build ML systems for price optimisation:” Tem, Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Pricing

  4. production

    “Security, Risk & Production Reliability:” Idme, Sr. Software Engineer - Wallet - Authentication

  5. architecture

    “System Architecture & Technical Strategy” Sandboxaq, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Medical Devices

  6. infrastructure

    “Develop Infrastructure-as-Code practices” Intersystems, Platform Engineer

  7. platform

    “Access to Meditopia (wellbeing platform)” Abacum, Senior Back End Engineer (Integrations)

  8. building

    “2+ years building software applications.” Abnormalsecurity, Software Engineer II - Insider Risk

  9. technical

    “Technical Leadership & Platform Thinking” Abnormalsecurity, Software Engineer II - Platform & Infrastructure

  10. stack

    “A willingness to learn across the stack.” Antora, Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Cloud & Real Time Infrastructure

  11. cloud

    “Solid Kubernetes and cloud fundamentals.” Vibe, Senior SRE/ML Ops Engineer - Performance

  12. python

    “TypeScript or Python, Node.js or FastAPI” Sierra-studio, Lead Full Stack Engineer

  13. application

    “2+ years building software applications.” Abnormalsecurity, Software Engineer II - Insider Risk

  14. reliability

    “Security, Risk & Production Reliability:” Idme, Sr. Software Engineer - Wallet - Authentication

  15. backend

    “Write and push code for the Popl Backend” Popl, Senior Backend Engineer

  16. features

    “Enable Teams to Ship AI Features Faster:” Strava, Staff AI Engineer

  17. deployment

    “Support operational aircraft deployments” Andurilindustries, Flight Software Engineer, Embedded C/C++, Air Dominance & Strike

  18. aws

    “Azure および AWS 環境へのセルフホスト型デプロイメントの設計・サポート” Citadel-ai, Backend & Cloud Engineer

  19. apis

    “Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI APIs” Freedomconsulting, Junior Software Engineer 744

  20. frameworks

    “Knowledge of evaluation frameworks (e.g.” Disher, Senior AI Application Engineer

  21. distributed

    “Distributed Systems & Backend Engineering” Docker, Staff Backend Engineer, Hub (East Coast)

  22. practices

    “Develop Infrastructure-as-Code practices” Intersystems, Platform Engineer

  23. user

    “Authentication — verifying who users are” Alphasense, Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

  24. testing

    “Testing: unit and integration tests (e.g.” Xebiacee, Senior Full-stack Developer (AI-Native)

  25. computer science

    “Degree in computer science or equivalent” Chooose, Fullstack Developer (Poland)

  26. observability

    “Datadog for monitoring and observability” Axle-health, Senior Software Engineer, DevOps and Infrastructure

  27. ci/cd

    “Gitlab for source code control and CI/CD” Ftmo, Cloud Platform Engineer

  28. scalable

    “5+ years building scalable software systems” Alan, Fullstack Software Engineer (x/f/m) - Care Expert Copilot

  29. security

    “Security, Risk & Production Reliability:” Idme, Sr. Software Engineer - Wallet - Authentication

  30. language

    “Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI APIs” Freedomconsulting, Junior Software Engineer 744

  31. integration

    “Strong API design and integration skills” Evertune, Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

  32. tooling

    “Platform tooling only takes that so far.” Alphasense, Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

  33. kubernetes

    “Solid Kubernetes and cloud fundamentals.” Vibe, Senior SRE/ML Ops Engineer - Performance

  34. designing

    “Experience designing and building RESTful APIs.” Oxylabs, Backend-Focused Full Stack Engineer (Node.js, React)

  35. ship

    “Enable Teams to Ship AI Features Faster:” Strava, Staff AI Engineer

  36. databases

    “Strong SQL database fundamentals (3+ yr)” Cocodelivery, Staff Software Engineer, Backend

  37. code reviews

    “Code review exercise plus applied questions.” Vibe, Staff Backend Engineer, Integrations

  38. reliable

    “Deployments become faster and more reliable.” Slice, Software Developer, DevEx (Deploy & Run)

  39. engineering teams

    “Why you should join our engineering team” Mintlify, Backend Engineer

  40. test

    “Test and deploy applications and systems” Saviynt, Principal Software Engineer, AI Onboarding

What posts ask you to prove

The map of what software engineering posts ask you to prove is still being built. Until then, the words above are what these posts lean on.

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