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Junior Lead Backend Software Engineer salary in San Mateo
Salary range, market position, recent movement, location comparisons and matching live jobs—calculated from comparable Jobiba listings rather than copied salary tables.
Typical market range
$220,020–$320,145
Median $297,615 / year
Based on 83 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 17 Oct 2026
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Where the market sits
$220,020
25th percentile
$297,615
Market median
$320,145
75th percentile
$174,935
Lower market
$220,020
25th percentile
$320,145
75th percentile
$345,040
Upper market
Market movement
Not enough historical evidence yet. Trend is shown only when both 90-day windows have enough comparable observations, preventing noisy “growth” claims from tiny samples.
Location intelligence
Compare Junior Lead Backend Software Engineer pay by market
Currencies are never blended or silently converted
San Francisco
219 samples$305,000
$218,000–$355,500 typical
New York
47 samples$203,000
$172,500–$256,250 typical
San Mateo
46 samples$296,433
$245,036–$320,145 typical
Toronto
35 samplesCA$110,000
CA$107,125–CA$160,000 typical
Menlo Park
24 samples$287,600
$195,000–$287,625 typical
Washington
23 samples$167,500
$133,000–$167,500 typical
New York City
23 samples$106,000
$10,000–$242,250 typical
Seattle
16 samples$250,750
$189,200–$343,125 typical
CA • New York
12 samples$264,500
$264,500–$264,500 typical
Live opportunity layer
Junior Lead Backend Software Engineer jobs in San Mateo
Principal Software Engineer, Build
San Mateo, CA, United States
$295.3K – $345K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Principal Software Engineer - Engineering Acceleration
San Mateo, CA, United States
$295.3K – $345K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Software Engineer, Engine Scalability
San Mateo, CA, United States
$153.1K – $196.8K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Principal Software Engineer, Ads User Experience
San Mateo, CA, United States
$295.3K – $345K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Principal Software Engineer, Engine Systems
San Mateo, CA, United States
$295.3K – $345K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Principal Software Engineer - Streaming
San Mateo, CA, United States
$295.3K – $345K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Principal Fullstack/Backend Software Engineer, User Connections
San Mateo, CA, United States
$295.3K – $345K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Software Engineer, Engine Systems
San Mateo, CA, United States
$168.7K – $212.5K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
How Jobiba calculates this
Evidence first, estimate second
- • Uses recent active Jobiba listings that contain employer/source salary data.
- • Requires an explicit salary currency and pay period before a listing can enter an aggregate.
- • Applies broad currency-specific plausibility floors/ceilings, then rejects extreme statistical outliers.
- • Groups title variants through Jobiba's canonical salary-role taxonomy so current estimates and historical trends use the same comparable cohort.
- • Annualizes hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay; no foreign-exchange conversion is used.
- • Uses percentile medians and publishes a range only after the minimum comparable sample is reached.
- • Labels inferred pay on salary pages/jobs as a Jobiba estimate, never as employer-provided compensation.
Based on 83 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 17 Oct 2026
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Frequently asked questions
Junior Lead Backend Software Engineer salary in San Mateo: common questions
What is the average Junior Lead Backend Software Engineer salary in San Mateo in 2026?
The median Junior Lead Backend Software Engineer salary in San Mateo is $297,615 a year, based on 83 salary-listed job postings on Jobiba. The middle half of postings pay between $220,020 and $320,145 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
Which cities pay the most for Junior Lead Backend Software Engineer jobs?
Among cities with enough USD salary data on Jobiba, the highest medians are San Francisco ($305,000 median, 219 postings), Menlo Park ($287,600 median, 24 postings), CA • New York ($264,500 median, 12 postings). Salaries are compared in their listed currency, without conversion.
How does Jobiba calculate Junior Lead Backend Software Engineer salary in San Mateo?
From 83 active Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.