600 live roles · 224 fully remote · freshest first

Backend Developer jobs

Live backend developer openings from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source. What the role pays, across markets and seniority: backend developer salary.

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What 600 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 116 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 19 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	12	2	—
Untagged (mid)	276	22	$27k–$125k
Senior / lead	312	36	$76k–$185k

Seniority is read from posting titles; roles with no level in the title are counted as mid. Bands cover only postings that state pay, and only where five or more do.

Skills named most

REST APIs42%
Java38%
SQL35%
AWS33%
Microservices32%
CI/CD26%
Python26%
Git25%

Share of postings naming each skill, from the posting text itself.

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Routes into backend developer

The measured pivots that lead here, ranked by how much of the destination a typical origin profile already covers.

Software Engineer → Backend Developer66% readiness
DevOps Engineer → Backend Developer45% readiness

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Quick answers

How many backend developer jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 600 backend developer openings on our board, and 116 of them arrived in the last seven days. 224 of them are fully remote (remote backend developer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do backend developer jobs pay?

60 of the 600 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $37k to $168k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the backend developer salary page.

What skills do backend developer postings ask for?

The three skills backend developer postings name most often are REST APIs (42% of postings), Java (38%) and SQL (35%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Can I move into backend developer work from an adjacent role?

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 2 measured routes lead into backend developer work. The closest is from software engineer: a typical software engineer profile already covers 66% of what backend developer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.

Listings backfilled from re-displayable sources (company career pages, remote-job boards, and public-sector postings), freshest first, refreshed with the nightly scrape. Each links out to apply at the original posting; PivotHop does not host applications. Salary shown where the posting states it.