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Engineering · Synced from public postings
Backend Engineer jobs.
772 roles open across 273 companies - closed listings pulled, and pay shown exactly as the employer posted it. Apply to any of them with one LandEarly profile, tailored per posting.
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- Base pay shown where stated
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Open backend engineer roles
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58 posted this week · 273 companies hiring
Posted todayOver 60 days old
How old the open roles are, not how many get posted - our board coverage has grown over the last year, so a week-by-week series would measure us rather than the market. Snapshot taken October 2026.
772 open backend engineer roles across 273 companies, with 58 posted this week. Posted base pay runs $192k–$226k across the middle half. Top hiring: Affirm, Databricks, OpenAI.
The board
Filter to the seat you’d actually take.
Level sets the scope and the pay band; work model decides whether you’re eligible at all. Both are on every card, so you can rule roles out before opening a single description.
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Model
Where
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Showing 12 of 120 roles · 772 open in total
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The board carries the 120 most recent of 772 open backend engineer roles - the other 652 are in the full member search. The city chips read the employer’s own location line; a listing that names no city we can resolve stays searchable but sits out of them.
Open to remote only? 270 of the 512 backend engineer listings that publish a work model came back remote-first, and 141 more are hybrid. The other 260 say nothing either way - that field is one only some boards publish.
Posted pay only - no estimates
What 137 of these listings actually printed.
Every figure here comes from a live posting with a stated annual base range. Nothing is modelled, inferred, or averaged in from a survey - which is also why the sample is smaller than the board.
Base salary distribution
Count of listings by posted base midpoint, on the same axis the rungs beside it are drawn against.
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$100k$131k$163k$194k$225k$256k$288k$319k
The $194k–$225k band alone holds 52 of the 137 priced listings.
What each rung pays
The middle 50% of posted base at each level, and how many listings that band is drawn from.
Mid-level23$162k–$209k
Senior85$190k–$225k
Staff27$215k–$260k
$192k
25th pct
$210k
Median
$226k
75th pct
3 of the 6 levels on this board sit out - fewer than 5 of their listings state a range, and a band drawn off two postings reads like the same fact as one drawn off forty.
By city
Where the openings actually are.
Every city with at least five open backend engineer roles, each its own board. Counts are what that page holds right now.
By country
Hiring beyond the US.
Every country with at least five open backend engineer roles, each its own board. Counts are what that page holds right now.
Same role, different question.
What it pays, where it's remote, and how the whole field is trending.
Backend Engineer salary breakdown
Percentiles by level and metro, with the sample size behind every number and a note where it is thin.
Remote backend engineer jobsThe 270 postings that came back remote-first, with the geography each employer will actually hire in kept on the card.
Engineering job marketHiring volume, top employers and pay direction across every role in the field.
Questions
Before you start applying.
About Backend Engineer roles
The backend engineer job market currently shows 773 open positions across 273 hiring companies, according to available data. This week alone, 59 new roles were posted, suggesting ongoing hiring activity in this field. The breadth of hiring companies, spanning 273 distinct organizations, indicates that demand for backend engineering talent is distributed across a range of employers rather than concentrated in just a handful of firms. Among the companies actively recruiting for backend engineering roles, Affirm, Databricks, OpenAI, GitLab, and Xsolla appear as top hirers based on current postings, reflecting a mix of fintech, data infrastructure, AI research, developer tooling, and gaming/payments sectors. On compensation, posted salary data reveals a median (50th percentile) of $208,750. The 25th percentile stands at $191,329.125, while the 75th percentile reaches $226,000, indicating a relatively tight salary band for the middle half of disclosed postings. This range suggests that backend engineering roles, at least those with disclosed compensation, tend to cluster around a fairly consistent compensation level rather than showing extreme variance between lower and upper quartiles. With 773 open roles and 273 companies hiring, the market presents a reasonably wide set of opportunities for candidates, though the actual competitiveness of any given role will depend on factors such as required experience, specific technology stack, and company-specific hiring criteria not captured in these aggregate figures. The 59 roles posted in the most recent week represent a small fraction of total open positions, which may indicate a steady rather than rapidly accelerating hiring pace, based on the available snapshot of data. Candidates and employers alike can use these figures as a general reference point, though individual job listings should be consulted for role-specific details, qualifications, and exact compensation structures.
What skills are in demand for backend engineers right now?
The provided data does not specify exact technical skills required across postings, so specific skill trends cannot be confirmed from available data. However, based on the companies currently hiring, such as Databricks and OpenAI, candidates may want to review individual job listings for specifics on languages, frameworks, and infrastructure requirements relevant to data and AI-focused environments.
What is the salary range for backend engineer roles?
Based on current postings, the median salary for backend engineer roles is $208,750, with the 25th percentile at $191,329.125 and the 75th percentile at $226,000. This indicates that, according to available data, most disclosed salaries fall within a moderately narrow band around the median.
Which companies are currently hiring the most backend engineers?
According to available data, top hiring companies for backend engineer roles include Affirm, Databricks, OpenAI, GitLab, and Xsolla. These five companies represent some of the most active employers among the 273 companies currently listed as hiring for this role.
How competitive is the backend engineer job market currently?
With 773 open positions across 273 companies and 59 new roles posted in the past week, the market shows a broad spread of opportunities based on current postings. Competitiveness for any specific role likely varies by company and seniority level, though the overall data suggests a sizable and active pool of openings rather than a narrowly concentrated market.
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