A living, human‑curated snapshot of Software Engineer (New Grad) roles from high‑signal teams.
If you’re a student, recent grad, or early‑career engineer, this is meant to be your once‑or‑twice‑a‑week scan of “what actually looks good” without doom‑scrolling ten different job boards.
All roles are surfaced through Hirebase, which keeps the underlying feed fresh and searchable.
Snapshot window: roughly the last 14 days of new‑grad / early‑career SWE postings.
Based on ~500 SWE‑ish, 0–2 YOE roles in the last two weeks, this is the rough shape of what stacks actually show up:
| 🔧 Tech | Approx. share of new‑grad SWE postings |
|---|---|
| JavaScript / TypeScript | ███░░░░░░░░ (~7%) |
| Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP) | ██░░░░░░░░░ (~6%) |
| Python | ██░░░░░░░░░ (~6%) |
| Java | ██░░░░░░░░░ (~5%) |
| C++ / C | █░░░░░░░░░░ (~4%) |
| Kubernetes / Docker | █░░░░░░░░░░ (~3%) |
| Git | ░░░░░░░░░░ (~2%) |
| Go | ░░░░░░░░░░ (~1%) |
| SQL | ░░░░░░░░░░ (~1%) |
| C# | ░░░░░░░░░░ (~1%) |
Big picture:
- The web stack is still everywhere: JavaScript/TypeScript + a front‑end framework shows up in a huge chunk of roles, even at infra‑heavy companies.
- Python + cloud is now table‑stakes for anything AI, data, or ML‑adjacent.
- Systems‑ish stacks (C/C++/Go, containers, Kubernetes) are very alive, especially in infra, embedded, and tooling teams.
- If you’re building a portfolio, one bet on "web + product" and one on "systems + data/infra" still covers most of what hiring managers actually post.
Pulled from roles with explicit salary bands in the current 14‑day slice (USD only, obvious outliers removed):
| 🌍 Region | Typical band (base/TC) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| US / Canada | ~$120k–$190k | Median mid‑$140k across early‑career SWE roles with bands. Big‑tech and top fintech stretch higher. |
| Europe / UK | ~£70k–£90k equivalent | Fewer roles list full comp in this slice; bands cluster around solid but not Bay Area‑level numbers. |
Treat this as a weather report, not a contract. Individual offers will swing a lot by city, equity, and company stage.
| Emoji | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 💼 | Full‑time role |
| 🎓 | New grad / early‑career friendly |
| 🌍 | Fully remote |
| 🏙️ | Onsite / hybrid |
| 🛂 | Visa sponsorship available (where stated) |
| 💻 | Generalist / product SWE |
| ⚙️ | Infra / systems / platform leaning |
| 📊 | Data / ML‑adjacent |
| 🧪 | Lots of experimentation / product iteration |
You’ll see these sprinkled into the cards below so you can skim quickly.
Five roles that look especially strong right now across mentorship, impact, and signal.
All application links route through Hirebase job pages, using the company and job slugs from the dataset.
1. Hewlett Packard Enterprise – SW Engineering (Systems) - Software Engineer I - Embedded System 💼🎓⚙️
- Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States (🏙️)
- Stack: Embedded C/C++, systems programming, low‑level Linux
- Comp (listed): ~$81,700–$165,800 base.
- Why it stands out: A rare true embedded systems role that’s still new‑grad friendly. You get to work close to hardware, in a team that actually expects you to be learning, not already an expert in every microcontroller on day one. If you’ve done operating systems, comp arch, or any hobby electronics, this is the sort of job that lets you turn that into a career.
- Apply: Apply
- Location: San Jose, California, United States (🏙️)
- Stack: JavaScript, HTML/CSS, React, Angular, Vue
- Comp (listed): ~$116,500–$173,250 base.
- Why it stands out: Classic product‑facing full‑stack work at serious scale. The role is scoped for engineers in the 1–2 YOE range, and the stack is exactly what you’d expect from a modern fintech front‑end: strong JS/TypeScript, a major framework, and plenty of real‑world UI complexity. Good fit if you like shipping things users can actually see and touch.
- Apply: Apply
- Location: Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom (🏙️)
- Stack: C++, Java, Python
- Comp: Not listed; typical UK grad‑engineer band.
- Why it stands out: A structured graduate program in a domain (defence, sensors, complex systems) where software actually moves physical things. If you like the idea of writing code that has to work in the real world – not just another dashboard – this is a solid way to get into that ecosystem with mentors around you.
- Apply: Apply
- Location: Berkeley, California, United States (🏙️)
- Stack: Python, Rust, C/C++, Git, numerical methods
- Comp (listed): ~$155,000–$185,000 base.
- Why it stands out: This is about as front‑row‑seat to the future as early‑career roles get. It’s explicitly open to 0–2 YOE engineers, but you’re working on quantum error correction and high‑reliability systems. If you’ve touched research, scientific computing, or heavy math/CS electives and want something beyond “CRUD app but with AI,” this is a standout.
- Apply: Apply
- Location: United States (Remote) (🌍)
- Stack: Java/Python/C++/Golang, AWS & Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability tooling
- Comp (listed): ~$75,200–$95,300 base.
- Why it stands out: A genuinely junior‑scoped role on an AI infrastructure team. You’re not just calling APIs; you’re helping keep the ML stack running in production – think clusters, containers, monitoring, and deployment. Great if you like the glue between ML, cloud, and “how does this actually scale?”
- Apply: Apply
Once you filter the firehose down to 0–2 YOE, SWE‑ish titles, a pattern emerges: the most interesting roles aren’t always the loudest ones. You still see the big names – Apple, Google, Meta – but a surprising amount of opportunity is hiding in specialized teams and non‑obvious locations.
On the systems side, there’s a clear cluster around embedded and infra: roles like HPE’s embedded SWE in Sunnyvale and Atom Computing’s quantum error‑correction engineer in Berkeley are betting that you care about how bits move through real hardware. They read more like “grad‑friendly research lab meets production team” than boilerplate entry‑level postings.
On the product side, full‑stack and front‑end roles keep leaning hard into TypeScript + cloud. Teams like PayPal’s consumer engineering group and a handful of fintechs and SaaS platforms are explicit about wanting early‑career engineers who can own a slice of the UI and work comfortably across APIs, state management, and tests.
The other quiet story in this slice is geography. There are real new‑grad‑friendly roles in Ireland, the UK, continental Europe, India, and LATAM, often in hybrid or remote‑first setups. If you’re flexible on location, you can trade a bit of brand prestige for a team that will actually let you ship, learn, and touch modern stacks every week.
A wider set of ~25 roles that are clearly early‑career friendly and expand the mix of stacks, regions, and company sizes.
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Vets Hired – Jr. Software Developer 💼🎓💻 · Alexandria, Virginia, United States (🏙️)
- Early‑career generalist role with room to grow into a broader engineering toolkit.
- Apply
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Addepar – Backend Software Engineer – Portfolio Data Workflows 💼🎓📊 · Musselburgh / Edinburgh area, Scotland, United Kingdom (🏙️)
- Fintech‑ish backend work on portfolio and data pipelines: Java, SQL, Elasticsearch, AWS, JavaScript.
- Apply
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Standex International – Junior Software Engineer 💼🎓💻 · Summerville, South Carolina, United States (🏙️)
- Mobile‑leaning role mixing Kotlin/Java Android with backend Node.js/Python – nice path into mobile + backend.
- Apply
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Atom Computing – Quantum Error Correction Software Engineer 💼🎓📊⚙️ · Berkeley, California, United States (🏙️)
- Also in the Top 5, but worth calling out again as a rare quantum‑adjacent early‑career opening.
- Apply
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Cloudflare – Frontend Software Engineer – Cloudforce One 💼🎓💻 · London, United Kingdom (🏙️)
- Security + threat‑intel flavored front‑end with TypeScript, React, Terraform, and Cloudflare’s own platform.
- Apply
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Alarm.com – Software Engineer II (Full‑stack Android) 💼🎓💻 · Krakow, Poland (🏙️)
- Full‑stack mobile: Android (Kotlin/Java) on the front, C#/.NET + SQL Server + Kafka on the back.
- Apply
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GoCardless – Software Development Engineer 💼🎓💻 · Riga, Latvia (🏙️)
- Payments‑focused engineering with Ruby and Python, explicit junior band and mentoring baked in.
- Apply
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Tanium – Software Engineer II (Front‑end) 💼🎓💻 · Durham, North Carolina, United States (🏙️)
- Enterprise security front‑end with JavaScript/TypeScript + React/Angular/Vue, and a wide salary band that rewards growth.
- Apply
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AJ Bell – Software Engineer 💼🎓💻⚙️ · Manchester, United Kingdom (🏙️)
- Modern polyglot stack: Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, TypeScript/Vue, Dart/Flutter – good if you like moving parts.
- Apply
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Esri – Java Software Engineer II – ArcGIS Enterprise 💼🎓📊 · Redlands, California, United States (🏙️)
- GIS platform work with Java + Servlets + SQL + cloud, sitting at the intersection of maps, data, and infra.
- Apply
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Weekday AI – Software Engineer Intern 💼🎓📊 · Bengaluru, India (🏙️)
- AI‑heavy startup environment, generalist stack (Python, JavaScript, Java, C++) and lots of surface area to touch as an intern.
- Apply
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Kong – Software Engineer Intern – Gateway 💼🎓⚙️ · Shanghai, China (🏙️)
- Deep infra + networking: Rust, Linux, NGINX/OpenResty, LuaJIT, Tokio. Very solid if you enjoy protocols and performance.
- Apply
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Hyphen Connect – Software Engineer (Solana) 💼🎓⚙️ · Japan (🌍)
- Crypto‑native engineering with Rust and Solana, aimed at folks who’ve actually built projects on‑chain.
- Apply
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Hyphen Connect – Software Engineer (EVM) 💼🎓⚙️ · Taiwan (🌍)
- EVM‑chain flavor: Solidity + Ethereum with a focus on developer tooling and protocol‑level work.
- Apply
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Hyphen Connect – Backend Engineer (DEX / Python / Node.js) 💼🎓⚙️ · Korea (🌍)
- Backend‑heavy DEX work: Node.js, Python, SQL, Redis, and performance‑sensitive services.
- Apply
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Qode – Embedded Software Engineer 💼🎓⚙️ · Bengaluru, India (🏙️)
- Embedded C/C++ on STM32‑class hardware, with Python in the toolchain. Great for people who want to stay close to the metal.
- Apply
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Zipdev – Full‑Stack Engineer (Backend) 💼🎓💻🌍 · Brazil (🌍)
- Remote‑first engineering with Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB – platform‑style backend work with a solid web stack.
- Apply
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Zipdev – Full‑Stack Engineer (Frontend) 💼🎓💻🌍 · Chile (🌍)
- Modern front‑end stack: TypeScript, React, Vite, Tailwind – very portfolio‑transferable if you like UI.
- Apply
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SAP – Student Training & Rotation Program (Software / DevOps) 💼🎓⚙️ · Budapest, Hungary (🏙️)
- Structured rotation across software and DevOps teams; excellent if you’re still figuring out where you fit.
- Apply
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Roblox – Software Engineer, Assessments 💼🎓💻 · San Mateo, California, United States (🏙️)
- Core platform work on assessment systems at a company where the product is the engine.
- Apply
There are many more in the underlying dataset; this set is meant to give you a feel for the range of good options, not exhaust the list.
This README is a curated snapshot. Hirebase has the full firehose.
If you’re actively searching, start here:
👉 Explore New Grad SWE‑style roles (US, 0–2 YOE, last 14 days): https://www.hirebase.org/search?job_title=Software+Engineer&advanced=true&yoe_min=0&yoe_max=2&date_posted=14&location=United+States&geo_location=[{"city":null,"region":null,"country":"United+States","value":"United+States","label":"United+States","emoji":"🇺🇸"}]
Want something a bit broader or more experimental?
- Simple keyword search for new grad SWE across regions: https://www.hirebase.org/search?q=new+grad+software+engineer
From there you can filter by tech stack, narrow by location/remote, and adjust experience bands as you grow.
Most job boards drop you into an endless scroll of half‑finished descriptions and mystery titles. You spend more time reading than actually preparing, and it’s weirdly hard to answer a basic question like: “who is seriously hiring people like me, right now?” Hirebase tries to push that work closer to the machine. It tracks the broader job market, scrapes and understands millions of postings, and then lets you slice by the things that actually matter: level, stack, location, compensation ranges, company type.
For new grads, that means you can spend less energy hunting for “maybe this is junior?” roles and more time on the pieces you control: projects, practice, and thoughtful applications. This repo is just one narrow lens – New Grad SWE – so you always have a clean place to start. The rest of the graph lives over on Hirebase.