Backend Engineer Jobs

682 Backend Engineer positions currently listed

Browse 682 open Backend Engineer positions across Europe. Every listing includes the full tech stack, seniority, location, remote policy, and salary data, so you can filter with confidence instead of guessing from job descriptions.

By the numbers

  • 268 companies hiring
  • Mostly Senior roles
  • Often paired with Java, Go, Python, PostgreSQL
  • Top locations: London, Berlin, Amsterdam
  • 96% don't require German
  • 27 new in the last 7 days
  • Typical salary €87,000 to €138,000

Market insights

About 40% of live Backend Engineer ads are listed as fully remote.

Remote policy

40%
31%
16%

Remote 40%Hybrid 31%On-site 16%

102 of 683 live ads state a salary.

Seniority mix

  • Senior 63%
  • Mid 15%
  • Staff 9%
  • Lead 6%
  • Junior 3%
  • Principal 3%
Wise 3 days ago

Senior Backend Software Engineer

London, United Kingdom - English

£87.500–111.000 /year
Exa 4 days ago
On-site

Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine – Query Engine

Zurich, Switzerland - English

Go Rust C++
GitLab 4 days ago
Remote

Backend Engineer, Source Code: Repository Services (Ruby)

United Kingdom (Remote) - English

Ruby GraphQL SQL
$115.200–194.400 /year
Wise 4 days ago
Hybrid

Senior Java Software Engineer II - Continuous Delivery (CD)

London, United Kingdom - English

Java
£87.500–111.000 /year
Wise 4 days ago
Hybrid

Senior II/Lead Software Engineer - Global KYC and Onboarding

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Spring SQL NoSQL
£111.000–145.000 /year
Iwoca.Co.UK 4 days ago
Remote

Senior Backend Engineer - Introducer Tech

London, United Kingdom (Remote) - English

Python
£80.000–100.000 /year
Wise 4 days ago
Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer I - Platform - Cloud Foundations

London, United Kingdom - English (Proficient)

Go Python
£87.500–111.000 /year
Taktile 5 days ago
On-site

Senior Backend Engineer - Developer Experience & Productivity

Berlin, Germany - English

Python AWS GitHub Actions Claude Code OpenCode
Wise 5 days ago
On-site

Senior Software Engineer II - Wise for Enterprise

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Spring Kafka
£111.000–145.000 /year
Wise 5 days ago
Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer II - Data Onboarding & Reporting

London, United Kingdom - English

Trino Presto Kafka Python SQL +2
£111.000–145.000 /year
Hyperexponential 5 days ago
Hybrid

Senior Product Engineer

London, United Kingdom - English

Kotlin Java
Project A 5 days ago
On-site

Staff Engineer (m/f/d)

Berlin, Germany - English

Java Spring Boot
Stream 6 days ago
Remote

Backend Engineer – Real-Time Video

Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote) - English

Go Rust C++ Java WebRTC +6
Wise 6 days ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Risk Domain

London, United Kingdom - English

Octopus Energy 6 days ago
Remote

Backend Engineer

London, United Kingdom (Remote) - English

Python GraphQL Celery PostgreSQL
Dualentry 6 days ago
Hybrid

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (London, Hybrid)

London, United Kingdom - English

PostgreSQL SQL
£130.000–220.000 /year
Wise 6 days ago

Senior Software Developer - Wise Platform

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Spring Boot MySQL PostgreSQL
£87.500–111.000 /year
Iwoca.Co.UK 6 days ago
Hybrid

Senior Backend Engineer - Credit Card Payments

London, United Kingdom - English

£100.000–120.000 /year
Wolt 6 days ago
On-site

Staff Engineer, EU Infrastructure

Berlin, Germany - English

Kubernetes AWS Terraform Go Python
Mark43 6 days ago
Hybrid

Software Engineer - Universal Search

Manchester, United Kingdom - English

Java AWS

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Backend Engineer jobs are available right now?
There are currently 682 open Backend Engineer positions. This number updates daily as new roles are posted.
How do you decide which jobs are Backend Engineer roles?
We classify every job by its title and required tech stack into a specific role, so you see genuine Backend Engineer positions instead of a broad keyword match.