Software Engineering · observed market
Backend Engineering jobs and hiring requirements
Application development, architecture, and developer tooling. Counts are derived from employer-published vacancies; current roles use a 30-day observation window and older still-published listings are shown separately.
What this role market shows
Freshness
41%
of still-published listings are in the current observation window
Most visible technology
Backend
294 current vacancy mentions
Leading location
United States
58 current role mentions
Evidence mix
Top technologies by requirement tier
Counts are mentions in current vacancies. One vacancy may mention several technologies.
Requirement evidence
Technologies employers ask for in Backend Engineering
Backend
294 current roles
Scalability
154 current roles
Python
142 current roles
Cloud
141 current roles
AI
136 current roles
AWS
130 current roles
Databases
122 current roles
Java
117 current roles
Reliability Engineering
117 current roles
Distributed Systems
109 current roles
Kubernetes
101 current roles
API
97 current roles
Current market
Latest current vacancies
Backend Engineer with AI Experience
Similarweb · Tel Aviv, Israel
Senior Backend Software Engineer, AI Observability & Evals Platform (NYC)
LangChain · New York, New York, United States
Full-Stack Engineer (Back-End Leaning)
ElevenLabs · United Kingdom
Backend Engineer - Alerting
Coralogix · Ramat Gan, Israel
Backend Engineer
Coralogix · Remote
Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Leaning) - CreativeVoices
ElevenLabs · United Kingdom
Senior Python Developer - Full Stack / Backend & Cloud-Native - Tieto Tech Consulting (m/f/d)
Tieto · Wrocław, Poland
Senior Python Developer - Full Stack / Backend & Cloud-Native - Tieto Tech Consulting (m/f/d)
Tieto · Szczecin, Poland
Backend Software Engineer
Claroty · Israel
Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Leaning) - Creative Agents
ElevenLabs · Remote
Work formats
Seniority
Evidence route
How this role market is assembled
Employer-published vacancies are classified by specialty. Current demand is kept apart from older still-published listings; employer, technology and location views come from that same cached role snapshot.
Illustrative process diagram. The charts above show the actual counts for Backend Engineering.
Still published by employers
Long-running source-active roles
These listings remain on their publishers’ career sites but are older than the current-market window. They remain discoverable without inflating fresh-demand totals.
Senior Backend Engineer, Trusted Agentic Development
GitLab · Remote — Poland
Senior Backend Engineer
Wise · Budapest, Hungary
Senior Backend Engineer - Python IRC302277
GlobalLogic · Bangalore, India
Software Development Engineer II, AWS WorkSpaces, AWS WorkSpaces Control Plane Backend
Amazon · Seattle, Washington, United States
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Wise · Hyderabad, India
AI Security Team Leader (Backend Focus)
OX Security · Ramat Gan, Israel
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