Backend Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 255 live Backend Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Pay is advertised by 67% of these postings (172 of 255 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

Experience	Median	Postings
3–5 years	$165k	69
6–9 years	$192k	52

Across 240 backend engineer postings that named at least one skill

Amazon Web Services is named by 56% of the 240 backend engineer postings that name any skill. Python follows at 48%.

Minimum years named in the posting · 177 postings stated one

3–5 years is the most common minimum, named by 56% of the 177 backend engineer postings that state one.

Where the work is done · 219 postings stated one

44% of the 219 backend engineer postings that say where the work happens are remote, against 30% hybrid and 26% on-site.