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Backend Engineer jobs.
766 roles open across 270 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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63 posted this week · 270 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.
766 open backend engineer roles across 270 companies, with 63 posted this week. Posted base pay runs $190k–$226k across the middle half. Top hiring: Affirm, Databricks, OpenAI.
The board
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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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The board carries the 120 most recent of 766 open backend engineer roles - the other 646 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? 267 of the 504 backend engineer listings that publish a work model came back remote-first, and 137 more are hybrid. The other 262 say nothing either way - that field is one only some boards publish.
Posted pay only - no estimates
What 139 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 53 of the 139 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-level24$166k–$206k
Senior86$190k–$225k
Staff27$215k–$260k
$190k
25th pct
$208k
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 267 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
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About Backend Engineer roles
The Backend Engineer job market currently shows 769 open positions across 270 hiring companies, according to available data. This week alone, 63 new roles have been posted, suggesting ongoing demand for backend talent in the near term. The breadth of hiring companies, spanning 270 distinct organizations, indicates that opportunities for backend engineers are distributed across a wide range of employers rather than concentrated in a handful of firms. Among the companies currently posting the most backend roles are Affirm, Databricks, OpenAI, GitLab, and Xsolla, reflecting demand from both established technology companies and growth-stage firms. On compensation, posted salary data shows a median (P50) of $207,500 for backend engineering roles. The 25th percentile sits at $190,471.50, while the 75th percentile reaches $226,000, indicating a relatively tight compensation band for the roles currently disclosing pay information. This range suggests that while there is some variation in offered pay, most posted compensation for backend engineering positions clusters within a defined band rather than showing extreme spread. The combination of 769 open roles and 270 hiring companies suggests a market with a meaningful number of active opportunities per employer, averaging roughly 2.8 open roles per company based on current postings. The weekly addition of 63 new roles, relative to the total of 769 open positions, implies that a notable share of current postings are relatively recent additions to the market. Overall, the data points to an active hiring environment for backend engineers, with compensation data concentrated in the low-to-mid $200,000s range at the median, and demand spread across a diverse set of companies rather than isolated to a small number of top employers.
What skills are in demand for Backend Engineer roles?
The provided data does not break down specific technical skills requested in postings, so a definitive skills list cannot be stated based on available data. However, given that companies like Databricks, OpenAI, and GitLab are among the top hirers, roles at these organizations may reflect the kinds of backend systems and infrastructure work typical of large-scale technology platforms, though this is inferential rather than confirmed by the stats provided.
What is the typical salary range for Backend Engineers?
Based on current postings, the median salary is $207,500, with the 25th percentile at $190,471.50 and the 75th percentile at $226,000. This indicates that most disclosed compensation for backend engineering roles falls within this range, according to available data.
Which companies are hiring the most Backend Engineers right now?
According to available data, the 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 270 total companies currently posting backend engineering positions.
How competitive is the Backend Engineer job market currently?
With 769 open positions across 270 companies and 63 new roles posted this week, the market appears to have a steady flow of opportunities based on current postings. The level of competitiveness for individual candidates cannot be determined from the available data alone, as it does not include applicant volume or hiring rates.
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