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As of 4 November 2026, 246 companies are hiring software engineering in China, with 1,478 open roles; 593 opened in the last 30 days and Shanghai has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Top city
- Shanghai · 360 roles
- Largest role family
- general software development · 31%
- Leadership roles (director+)
- 23 · 16 companies
- Remote share, last 30 days
- 26%
- Postings with a salary
- 0% · 4 companies
- Most-named tool
- C++ · 87 companies
Most new software engineering roles, last 30 days
Companies with the most new postings in the last 30 days; job boards and directories left out. Headquartered in China. Open software engineering roles and all open roles per company.
| Company | Size | new, 30 d | open software engineering | all open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
NTM EngineeringMechanical design engineering | 11-50 employees | 1 | 1 | 14 |
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By city, seniority and role family
Postings, then companies. Cities as the posting states them.
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 360 · 68 |
| Beijing | 149 · 34 |
| Shenzhen | 67 · 28 |
| Suzhou | 62 · 10 |
| Wuxi | 40 · 6 |
| Chengdu | 30 · 8 |
| Tianjin | 22 · 5 |
| Hangzhou | 17 · 7 |
| Guangzhou | 15 · 3 |
| China | 14 · 7 |
| Guangdong Province | 12 · 1 |
| Nanjing | 12 · 2 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Trainee, apprentice | 164 · 29 |
| Entry | 70 · 35 |
| Mid | 193 · 79 |
| Senior | 555 · 135 |
| Manager | 72 · 25 |
| Director | 9 · 9 |
| VP | 12 · 5 |
| C-level | 2 · 2 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| general software development | 460 · 117 |
| software testing and qa | 251 · 79 |
| embedded and firmware | 232 · 47 |
| backend development | 102 · 50 |
| devops sre and platform | 90 · 39 |
| full stack development | 48 · 20 |
| mobile development | 35 · 11 |
| frontend development | 20 · 14 |
| software architecture | 19 · 8 |
| enterprise platform and integration development | 15 · 10 |
Tools software engineering postings in China ask for
Office software left out. Click through to every company on a tool.
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Onsite | 152 · 25 |
| Remote | 55 · 9 |
| Hybrid | 1 · 1 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Posted in the last 7 days | 88 · 37 |
| Posted in the last 30 days | 593 · 130 |
| All open | 1,478 · 246 |
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246 companies have 1,478 open software engineering roles in China; 130 of them posted 593 in the last 30 days. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/hiring/software_engineering/china)
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Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →
- Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites, with portals filling the gaps. Reposts collapse into one record; a role closes when the company closes it.
- Function and familyRole tree v2: every title classified into a function and a family, in every language.
- LocationThe posting's stated location, normalised to city and country. This page counts roles located in China.
- ExclusionsJob boards, directories and aggregators are kept out of company lists; staffing firms stay in only for their own hiring.
Software engineering hiring in China: questions
What counts as a software engineering role?
A posting classified into the software engineering function by our role tree (v2), whatever the title says. "Account Executive", "Vertriebsmitarbeiter" and "SDR" all land in the same function, then in a family such as general software development.
Why is China the posting's country, not the company's?
This page counts roles located in China. A US company hiring in Berlin counts; a Chinese company hiring in Paris does not. Company pages show the reverse view.
How fresh is it?
Career systems are checked hourly, so a role usually shows up the same day it opens and disappears the day it closes. Reposts collapse into one record.
Can I get the hiring manager?
Yes. For each company, the person the new hires report to, with a verified e-mail. The first 15 companies are on this page; the rest, and a weekly feed of new software engineering hiring in China, is in the product.
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