First-hire signals / Software Engineering
Companies making their first Software Engineering hire
No company in our dataset has posted its first Software Engineering role recently — check back tomorrow, boards are re-checked daily. Engineering headcount growth drives demand for CI/CD, observability, code review and developer-productivity tools.
First Software Engineering hires
No first Software Engineering hires detected yet.
Teams scaling Software Engineering fast
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Hercules: Software Engineering hiring surge — 5 roles in 30 days (previous 30 days: 0)
2026-10-05
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Foundational: Software Engineering hiring surge — 6 roles in 30 days (previous 30 days: 0)
2026-10-05
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Wispr Flow: Software Engineering hiring surge — 7 roles in 30 days (previous 30 days: 0)
2026-10-05
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Primeintellect: Software Engineering hiring surge — 5 roles in 30 days (previous 30 days: 0)
2026-10-05
How we detect a first Software Engineering hire
We classify every posting title into one of 41 role families. Software Engineering covers: backend, full-stack and general software engineers. We keep the full history of families each company has ever posted.
- Observed: the family appeared on a board where we had previously recorded postings and never saw this family.
- Inferred: on the first crawl of an established board (postings older than 60 days), the family has only 1–2 roles, all posted in the last 21 days.
Currently 4,282 Software Engineering roles are open across 200 companies — see all companies hiring Software Engineering.
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