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Backend Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 283 live Backend Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
283
Employers
172
Remote
25%
Typical pay
$152k–265k
Verified live (7d)
275

Pay is advertised by 64% of these postings (182 of 283 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

ExperienceMedianPostings
3–5 years$170k71
6–9 years$192k54
10+ years$174k11

Skills in demand

Across 262 backend engineer postings that named at least one skill

  • Amazon Web Services58%
  • Python50%
  • Kubernetes34%
  • Oracle Java24%
  • Docker23%
  • TypeScript20%
  • Google Cloud Platform19%
  • PostgreSQL18%
  • Redis18%
  • Apache Kafka17%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 201 postings stated one

0–2 years
6.5%
3–5 years
53%
6–9 years
34%
10+ years
6.5%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 221 postings stated one

Remote
31%
Hybrid
37%
On-site
33%

Employers hiring for this

Currently open

All 283 open roles

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