Backend Engineer Jobs

845 Backend Engineer positions currently listed

Browse 845 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

  • 350 companies hiring
  • Mostly Senior roles
  • Often paired with Java, Go, Python, AWS
  • Top locations: London, Berlin, Amsterdam
  • 93% don't require German
  • 52 new in the last 7 days
  • Typical salary €86,000 to €125,000

Market insights

About 38% of live Backend Engineer ads are listed as fully remote.

Remote policy

38%
33%
16%

Remote 38%Hybrid 33%On-site 16%

117 of 844 live ads state a salary.

Seniority mix

  • Senior 59%
  • Mid 15%
  • Staff 11%
  • Lead 7%
  • Junior 4%
  • Principal 3%
Jump App 2 months ago Reposted 1 time(s)
Remote

Staff/Principal Software Engineer - Brazil

Brazil (Remote) - English

Elixir Liveview PostgreSQL GitHub Kubernetes +2
$30–70 /hour
Rerun 2 months ago
Remote

Software Engineer (Rust) - Backend

Stockholm, Sweden (Remote) - English

Rust C C++
Zalando 2 months ago Reposted 1 time(s)
Hybrid

Backend Engineer - ZEOS (all genders)

Berlin, Germany - English

Java Spring Boot Gradle AWS Kubernetes +1
Zalando 2 months ago Reposted 2 time(s)
Hybrid

Senior Backend Engineer - ZEOS (all genders)

Berlin, Germany - English (excellent)

Java Spring Boot Gradle AWS Kubernetes
Automattic 2 months ago
Remote

Senior Systems Engineer

Remote (Worldwide) - English

Nginx MySQL MariaDB PHP
$120.000–180.000 /year
Automattic 2 months ago
Remote

Experienced Software Engineer

Remote (Worldwide) - English

PHP JavaScript
$70.000–170.000 /year
MongoDB 2 months ago
Hybrid

Technical Services Engineer

Dublin, Ireland - English

Linux DNS TCP/IP SSL/TLS NAS +11
Hyperhug 2 months ago
Remote

Senior Unity Developer

Cyprus (Remote) - Russian (C1), English

Unity C# URP
Wise 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer I - Receive

London, United Kingdom - English

Java Kafka RabbitMQ SQL
£87.000–111.000 /year
TRADINGHUB 2 months ago
Hybrid

Senior Quantitative Developer

London, United Kingdom - English

C# Python SQL PostgreSQL
Enpal 2 months ago
Hybrid

(Senior) Software Engineer (f/m/x)

Berlin, Germany - English

TypeScript Node.js MongoDB
Neo4j 2 months ago Reposted 1 time(s)
Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer - Graph Analytics for Snowflake

Malmö, Sweden - English

Snowflake SQL Java Python
ClickHouse 2 months ago Reposted 3 time(s)
Remote

Senior Software Engineer - Java Streaming - Connectors

Canada (Remote) - English

Java Kafka Flink Apache Beam Kafka Connect
ClickHouse 2 months ago Reposted 6 time(s)
Remote

Principal Software Engineer - Postgres

Netherlands (Remote) - English

C C++ Rust PostgreSQL
ClickHouse 2 months ago Reposted 9 time(s)
Remote

Principal Software Engineer - Postgres

India (Remote) - English

C C++ Rust PostgreSQL
Smartrecruiters 2 months ago
Remote

Senior Software Engineer, Python

Germany (Remote) - English (B2/C1)

Python Kafka MongoDB PostgreSQL AWS +7
Wallee 2 months ago
Hybrid

Java Software Engineer - Payment Integration

Hamburg, Germany - English

Java Spring Spring Boot Hibernate SQL +4
PlanetScale 2 months ago
Remote

Software Engineer - PlanetScale Vitess

Remote (EMEA) - English

Go MySQL Kubernetes
$120.000–290.000 /year
Almedia 2 months ago
On-site

Staff Engineer

Berlin, Germany - English

TypeScript Node.js
€120.000–165.000 /year
PPRO 2 months ago
Hybrid

Principal Engineer

Berlin, Germany - English

Java Kotlin AWS EKS Kinesis +3

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Backend Engineer jobs are available right now?
There are currently 845 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.