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%
Wise 1 month ago

Senior Software Developer II - Consumer Onboarding

London, United Kingdom - English

Java
£111.000–145.000 /year
Wise 1 month ago

Senior Backend Software Engineer I - Personal & Business Pricing Team

London, United Kingdom - English

Java
£87.500–111.000 /year
Wise 1 month ago

Senior Software Developer II - Receive Risk

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Kafka RabbitMQ SQL
£111.000–145.000 /year
Wise 1 month ago
On-site

Senior Staff Software Engineer

London, United Kingdom - English

Java
£145.000–182.000 /year
JetBrains 1 month ago Reposted 6 time(s)
Remote

Release Engineer

Belgrade, Serbia +9 (Remote) - English (professional fluency)

Kotlin Java Gradle Bash Linux
Neo4j 1 month ago
Hybrid

Software Engineering - Clustering & Distributed Systems

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Kubernetes
Octopus Energy 1 month ago

Senior Software Engineer (Python)

London, United Kingdom - English

Python PostgreSQL AI
Scottlogic 1 month ago
Hybrid

Software Engineer (CI/CD)

Bristol, United Kingdom - English

Rust Java C# JavaScript
Zeal Network 1 month ago
Hybrid

Team Lead Engineering - Finance Automation (f/m/d)

Hamburg, Germany - English

Kotlin Spring Boot SQL PostgreSQL Kubernetes +2
Playson 1 month ago
Remote

Compliance Engineer

European Union (Remote) - English

Node.js TypeScript SQL
Nebius 1 month ago Reposted 1 time(s)

Staff Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Index

Zurich, Switzerland +1 - English

Go
Abnormalsecurity 1 month ago
Remote

Software Engineer - Backend - Behavioral Security Products

United Kingdom (Remote) - English

Python AWS
Zalando 1 month ago Reposted 1 time(s)
Hybrid

Junior Software Engineer - Fulfillment Core (all genders)

Dortmund, Germany - English

Java Kotlin
commercetools 1 month ago
Hybrid

Senior Search Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

London, United Kingdom - English (Fluent)

Scala Elasticsearch MongoDB Kubernetes Terraform
commercetools 1 month ago
Hybrid

Senior Search Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

Munich, Germany - English (fluent)

Scala JVM Elasticsearch MongoDB Kubernetes +1
commercetools 1 month ago
Hybrid

Senior Search Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

Berlin, Germany - English (fluent)

Scala Elasticsearch MongoDB Kubernetes Terraform +1
Scottlogic 1 month ago
Hybrid

Lead Developer

Newcastle, United Kingdom - English

Python Java C# .NET JavaScript +1
Scottlogic 1 month ago
Hybrid

Senior Developer

Bristol, United Kingdom - English

Python Java C# .NET JavaScript +1
GitLab 1 month ago
Remote

Principal Engineer, Duo Agent Platform

Canada +3 (Remote) - English

Ruby Go Python TypeScript LLM
$250.000–325.000 /year
Squarespace 1 month ago Reposted 1 time(s)
Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer Backend, Database

Dublin, Ireland - English

Go
€93.000–143.000 /year

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.