Backend Engineer Jobs

712 Backend Engineer positions currently listed

Browse 712 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

  • 271 companies hiring
  • Mostly Senior roles
  • Often paired with Java, Go, Python, PostgreSQL
  • Top locations: London, Berlin, Amsterdam
  • 96% don't require German
  • 26 new in the last 7 days
  • Typical salary €86,000 to €138,000

Market insights

About 39% of live Backend Engineer ads are listed as fully remote.

Remote policy

39%
31%
16%

Remote 39%Hybrid 31%On-site 16%

102 of 692 live ads state a salary.

Seniority mix

  • Senior 63%
  • Mid 15%
  • Staff 9%
  • Lead 6%
  • Junior 3%
  • Principal 3%
About You 1 month ago
On-site

Backend Engineer - Recommendation (all genders)

Hamburg, Germany - English (C1)

Node.js TypeScript Java Go Kotlin +9
About You 1 month ago
On-site

Backend Engineer - Recommendation (all genders)

Hamburg, Germany - English

Node.js TypeScript Valkey DynamoDB OpenSearch +8
About You 1 month ago
On-site

Senior Backend Engineer - Search & Discovery (all genders)

Hamburg, Germany - English (Very good)

Node.js TypeScript Java Go Kotlin +2
About You 1 month ago
On-site

Senior Backend Engineer - Search & Discovery (all genders)

Hamburg, Germany - English (fluent)

Node.js TypeScript Java Go Kotlin +2
About You 1 month ago
On-site

Senior Backend Engineer - Sorting (all genders)

Hamburg, Germany - English (Fluent)

Node.js TypeScript SQL PostgreSQL MySQL +2
About You 1 month ago
On-site

Senior Backend Engineer - Ranking Systems (all genders)

Hamburg, Germany - English (C1)

Node.js TypeScript SQL PostgreSQL MySQL +4
About You 1 month ago
On-site

Senior Backend Engineer - Sorting (all genders)

Hamburg, Germany - English

Node.js TypeScript SQL Fastify PostgreSQL +2
About You 1 month ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Ranking Systems (all genders)

Hamburg, Germany - English

Node.js TypeScript Java Go Kotlin +2
AMBOSS 1 month ago
On-site

Backend Engineer (Golang)

Berlin, Germany - English

Go MySQL NoSQL GraphQL Git
Wise 1 month ago
Hybrid

Backend Software Engineer - Product Eligibility

London, United Kingdom - English

Java
£68.000–87.500 /year
SumUp 1 month ago Reposted 5 time(s)
Hybrid

Senior Backend Engineer - Run & Grow

Cologne, Germany - English

Go PostgreSQL Snowflake Kafka
Zeal Network 1 month ago
Hybrid

Team Lead Engineering - Fraud Prevention (f/m/d)

Hamburg, Germany - English

Kotlin Spring Boot MongoDB PostgreSQL Kubernetes +2
Wise 1 month ago
On-site

Senior Software Engineer II - Engineering Experience

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Go Python TypeScript LLM
£111.000–145.000 /year
Wise 1 month ago
On-site

Engineering Lead - Verification Platform

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Spring Spring Boot Databases
HelloKindred 1 month ago
Hybrid

Java Developer

Sheffield, United Kingdom - English (strong)

Java 11+ HTML JavaScript PostgreSQL JUnit +4
Gropyus 1 month ago
Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer (f/m/d)

Richen, Germany - English

Kotlin Spring Boot Kubernetes PostgreSQL Azure
Wise 1 month ago
Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer II - Backend (Java) - Account Sharing

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Kotlin Python Go
£111.000–145.000 /year
Neo4j 1 month ago
On-site

Software Engineer - Go/Kubernetes, Sharding team

London, United Kingdom +1 - English

Go Kubernetes Docker
Elastic 1 month ago

Core/ Infra - Senior Java Engineer - Elasticsearch

Ireland - English

Java Buildkite ArgoCD AI
€87.300–138.100 /year
Elastic 1 month ago

Senior Java Engineer - Core / Infra - Elasticsearch

United Kingdom - English

Java Buildkite ArgoCD

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Backend Engineer jobs are available right now?
There are currently 712 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.