Full-Stack Jobs Hiring Report — July 2026

Key facts

• As of July 2026 there are 11,790 open full-stack roles across 3,658 companies tracked from first-party Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards.
• Net hiring is flat-to-negative: -57 net roles over the last 28 days (3,751 opened, 3,808 closed).
• 577 companies posted their first full-stack role in the last 28 days — new demand is arriving even as the total count dips.
• Median disclosed pay sits at $150,228–$200,000/yr, but only 18% of postings (n=365) show a band at all.
• Anduril Industries (+28) and SpaceX (+18) led net hiring; defense and hardware are pulling the market.

The most telling number this month isn't the 11,790 open roles — it's the minus sign in front of the net figure. Over the last 28 days the market closed 3,808 full-stack roles and opened 3,751, for a net loss of 57. That's not a collapse; on a base this size it's essentially flat, churn cancelling itself out. But it does mean the days of the count creeping up every edition are, for now, over. Full-stack hiring is treading water.

What's interesting is where the water is moving. Underneath a flat total, 577 companies opened their first full-stack posting in the past four weeks. New entrants are still stepping in at a healthy clip — the flatness comes from established employers closing roles as fast as newcomers open them. If you only watched the headline number you'd miss that the composition of who's hiring is turning over quickly.

How many full-stack jobs are open right now?

There are 11,790 open full-stack roles as of this July 2026 snapshot, spread across 3,658 companies. You can browse the live set on the full-stack jobs board. The spread matters: 3,658 companies for 11,790 roles works out to roughly 3.2 openings per company, so this isn't a market propped up by a handful of giants posting hundreds of reqs each. Most employers here have a small number of full-stack seats to fill.

The exceptions are worth naming. Anduril alone accounts for 202 active roles and SpaceX for 150 — between them that's about 3% of the entire market from two companies. Strip those outliers and the long tail gets even thinner and more evenly distributed.

Is full-stack hiring growing or cooling?

It's cooling slightly — the -57 net over 28 days is the clearest read I have. Openings and closings are running neck and neck (3,751 vs 3,808), which is the signature of a market in equilibrium rather than one expanding or contracting hard. I'd stop short of calling it a downturn. When closings outpace openings by less than 2% on a base of nearly 12,000, that's noise-level, and a single strong week could flip it positive again.

The healthier signal is those 577 first-time posters. Companies don't open a full-stack req to look busy — it's a seat they intend to fill. New demand entering the market at that rate tells me the flatness is about turnover, not evaporating budgets. Track where the movement is concentrating on the movers page, which is where next month's leaders usually show up first.

Which companies are hiring full-stack fastest?

Defense and hardware companies are running the table on net new full-stack roles. Here's the 28-day leaderboard:

• Anduril Industries — +28 net, 202 active
• SpaceX — +18 net, 150 active
• Neura Robotics — +14 net, 14 active
• Cerebras — +12 net, 12 active
• Shield AI — +11 net, 32 active
• Cssmerge — +10 net, 10 active
• Referralsuseonly — +9 net, 9 active
• Anthropic — +9 net, 45 active
• Commure — +8 net, 18 active
• Fab2 — +8 net, 8 active

Two patterns jump out. First, the top of the list is defense, aerospace and robotics — Anduril, SpaceX, Shield AI, Neura Robotics. When a national-security and hardware cluster leads full-stack hiring, it says something about where the venture-and-contract money is landing: teams building physical systems still need web tooling, internal apps and operator interfaces, and they're staffing full-stack engineers to build them.

Second, look at the ratio of net-new to total active for the smaller names. Neura Robotics is +14 with 14 active — essentially every open role is new this month. Cerebras is +12 of 12. Fab2 is +8 of 8. These are teams that stood up their full-stack hiring effectively from scratch in the last four weeks. That's a very different signal from Anduril's +28 on a base of 202, where strong hiring is layered on an already-large footprint. If you want to catch a team early — before the process gets crowded and formalized — the from-zero companies are where to look.

A word of caution on two of these entries. "Cssmerge" and "Referralsuseonly" read like board artifacts rather than genuine employers — the latter name literally suggests referral-only reqs. I'm reporting them because they're in the measured data, but I wouldn't build a job search around them. This is the kind of noise that shows up when you pull directly from raw ATS feeds, and I'd rather flag it than launder it out silently.

What do full-stack jobs pay?

The median disclosed band is $150,228–$200,000/yr, but read that with the sample size in mind: only 18% of postings disclose pay at all, so this figure rests on 365 roles out of 11,790. The 82% that stay silent are disproportionately the ones not covered by pay-transparency laws, which skews the visible sample toward specific states and larger employers. Treat the band as a directional read on senior US full-stack compensation, not gospel for the whole market. Full detail lives on the full-stack salaries page.

That $150k floor is consistent with a market weighted toward experienced engineers — which, as the next section shows, is exactly what the seniority mix is. If you're seeing offers well below that band, check whether the role is actually junior or unspecified rather than senior full-stack; the label matters more than the title here.

Which roles and seniority levels are most in demand?

This is an engineering market, full stop. Of 11,790 roles, 11,718 are tagged engineering — 99.4%. Everything else is a rounding error: 51 "other," 4 operations, a single marketing role, one in education. If you're a full-stack candidate who isn't an engineer, this dataset has almost nothing for you, and I'd rather say that plainly than pretend the handful of non-engineering roles represents a real path.

On seniority, the market skews hard toward the experienced end:

• Senior: 4,862
• Unspecified: 4,680
• Principal: 1,805
• Junior: 358
• Director: 49
• Executive: 30
• VP: 6

Senior and principal together are 6,667 roles — over half the market. Junior postings? 358, barely 3% of the total. That gap is the single hardest fact in this report for early-career candidates. Employers are hiring for people who can ship without hand-holding, and they're not backfilling entry-level full-stack seats at anything like the same rate.

The 4,680 "unspecified" roles are the wildcard. Many of these are genuinely open to a range of levels — companies that didn't gate the posting by seniority, either because they're small or because they'll shape the role to whoever's strong. If you're not clearly senior yet, that unspecified bucket is where you have the best odds, and it's nearly as large as the explicit senior pile. Don't self-select out of a posting just because it doesn't say "junior."

Are full-stack jobs remote?

Only 24% of full-stack postings are remote — about one in four. The overwhelming majority are on-site or hybrid, which tracks with the leaderboard: defense, aerospace and hardware companies like Anduril, SpaceX and Neura Robotics have physical facilities and security requirements that pull work into offices. Robotics teams need people near the robots. If remote is non-negotiable for you, you're competing for roughly a quarter of the market, and it's a quarter that skews toward software-only employers rather than the hardware names driving net growth right now.

Is now a good time to look for a full-stack job?

It's a fine time to look if you're mid-to-senior, and a genuinely tough one if you're junior. The market is flat rather than falling, 577 fresh employers entered in the last month, and the disclosed pay for senior roles holds above $150k. That's a functioning market with real movement underneath a steady surface.

The honest caveat is level. With 358 junior roles against 6,667 senior-and-principal, early-career candidates are fishing in a small pond. If that's you, the strategy isn't to grind through hundreds of "senior" reqs — it's to target the 4,680 unspecified roles and the from-zero teams (Neura, Cerebras, Fab2) where the process is new and less rigid, and where being the third full-stack hire counts for more than the exact line on your résumé.

The takeaway for job seekers

Point your search at the growth clusters and match your level to the openings. Defense, aerospace and robotics are the ones adding net full-stack roles — Anduril and SpaceX at scale, Neura Robotics and Cerebras from a standing start — so if you can work on-site and clear the requirements, that's where the momentum is. Assume the role is in-person unless it says otherwise; only 24% are remote. If you're senior, the $150k-plus disclosed band is a reasonable anchor, but push for a number early since 82% of postings won't show you one. And if you're junior, treat the "unspecified" roles and brand-new hiring teams as your real market — the explicitly-junior listings are too few to build a search around. Check the movers page weekly; this month's flat total hides a lot of turnover, and the companies opening their first reqs are the ones worth reaching first.