What fully remote startups and scaleups hiring software engineers in July 2026 are looking for

We looked at every remote software engineering job posted by fully remote startups and scaleups on Matcha over the last 30 days: 2,020 postings, collapsing to 1,210 distinct roles once per-location reposts are removed, from 775 companies, to see what they're actually hiring for right now.

The Roles

Titles are all over the map, but a few categories dominate:

• General Software Engineering: 446 (37%)
• Machine Learning / AI: 115 (10%)
• Full-Stack: 95 (8%)
• DevOps / SRE / Platform: 91 (8%)
• Solutions / Forward Deployed: 86 (7%)
• Engineering Leadership: 70 (6%)
• Data Science / Analytics: 70 (6%)
• Backend: 62 (5%)
• Security Engineering: 46 (4%)
• Data Engineering: 37 (3%)
• Mobile: 32 (3%)
• QA / Test: 30 (2%)
• Frontend: 21 (2%)
• Embedded / Firmware: 7 (1%)
• Blockchain / Web3: 2 (0%)

The most common individual titles: Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer and its Senior and Staff variants, Senior Backend Engineer, Engineering Manager, and Data Engineer.

The Skills

The most requested skills across postings:

1. Python
2. TypeScript
3. SQL
4. AWS
5. CI/CD
6. Kubernetes
7. React
8. Distributed systems
9. Docker
10. API design
11. Terraform
12. Go
13. PostgreSQL
14. Node.js
15. JavaScript
16. Observability
17. Technical leadership
18. Java
19. System design
20. Data modeling

Where They're Hiring From

• US: 854 (71%)
• EU: 201 (17%)
• CA: 198 (16%)
• UK: 90 (7%)
• WW: 79 (7%)
• LATAM: 59 (5%)
• MEA: 30 (2%)
• APAC: 23 (2%)

Seniority

Of the postings with a seniority level set (393 of 1,210):

• Senior+: 217 (55%)
• Senior: 194 (49%)
• Mid: 20 (5%)
• Junior: 11 (3%)
• New grad: 8 (2%)
• Intern: 6 (2%)

Compensation

Of the 834 postings that listed a salary:

• Median min: $145,000
• Median max: $190,000
• Median midpoint: $166,000
• Range: from $5,000 to $1,300,000

Who's Hiring

The most active hirers over the period: Cleerly, Smile Digital Health, SimSpace Corporation, Launch Potato, Ondo Finance, Deepgram, Vultr, Blackbird Interactive, Jerry.ai, Runpod, Litify, Tapcart Inc., Ruby Labs, RevenueCat, and Oneleet.