Writing a backend engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,206 live backend engineer postings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,206
Employers: 558
Remote: 31%
Typical pay: $140k–260k
Verified live (7d): 1,168

What they ask for

Counted across 1,144 of the most recent 1,206 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Amazon Web Services51%
Kubernetes38%
Python38%
Oracle Java33%
Docker28%
Apache Kafka24%
Google Cloud Platform22%
PostgreSQL20%
TypeScript18%
Microsoft Azure16%
Node.js15%
Redis15%
Large Language Models14%
Spring Boot13%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Bjakcareer37
ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG31
Coupang30
GitLab29
Coupang Internal17
Anyone Ai15
Wise14
Nord Security13
Stripe13
Trading21212
ING Bank Personeel BV11
Hyphen Connect Limited11

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