This is the first edition of a new report series built entirely from Hire.monster's own job board data: real, currently-live postings sourced directly from company ATS platforms, not a survey or a third-party estimate. Here is what backend engineering hiring looks like right now, based on our own data.
Methodology
This report covers 5,155 active backend engineering postings on Hire.monster's board, posted between June 3 and July 2, 2026. Every posting in this dataset comes directly from a company's own applicant tracking system. No aggregator listings, no staffing-agency submissions, and no scraped or manually-entered postings are included in this dataset.
One honesty note before the numbers: this is the first edition of this report, and Hire.monster's own ingestion volume scaled up substantially in early June 2026 as more companies and ATS feeds were added to the board. That means this edition is a snapshot, not a trend line. We are not reporting period-over-period changes in this edition because the prior 30-day window predates that scale-up and any comparison would reflect our board growing, not the hiring market changing. Trend comparisons start with next month's edition, once two comparably-sized periods exist.
Who's hiring the most backend engineers right now
| Company | Active postings |
|---|---|
| Databricks | 267 |
| MongoDB | 167 |
| Anduril Industries | 165 |
| Stripe | 109 |
| Axon | 104 |
| Accenture Federal Services | 94 |
| Relativity | 90 |
| CoreWeave | 88 |
| Astera Labs | 83 |
| Roku | 83 |
A high posting count reflects live open roles on our board, not necessarily 267 separate hiring managers at Databricks making 267 independent decisions in isolation - some of these are recurring or multi-location versions of similar roles. Treat this as a real count of open opportunity, not a ranking of "best" employers.
What skills show up most in backend postings
| Skill | Mentioned in postings |
|---|---|
| Python | 502 |
| Java | 365 |
| AWS | 311 |
| Distributed Systems | 276 |
| Go | 239 |
| Kubernetes | 236 |
| C++ | 230 |
| TypeScript | 169 |
| SQL | 155 |
| GCP | 134 |
Python appears in roughly 1 in 10 of all active backend postings in this dataset, ahead of every other language or platform skill. The cloud-platform split is notable too: AWS (311 mentions) still leads, but GCP (134) and Azure (111, just outside the top 10) together show real multi-cloud demand rather than one platform dominating outright.
Seniority breakdown
Of the 4,245 postings in this dataset with a stated seniority level (910 postings, about 18% of the total, do not specify one and are excluded from the percentages below):
- Senior: 55.2%
- Staff: 15.3%
- Mid: 15.1%
- Principal: 11.4%
- Junior: 1.6%
- Intern: 1.4%
Senior-and-above roles (senior, staff, principal combined) make up over 80% of postings with a stated level. Entry-level backend hiring, at least among postings that specify seniority, is a small fraction of what's currently open.
Remote vs onsite vs hybrid
- Onsite: 72.2% (3,719 postings)
- Remote: 20.3% (1,047 postings)
- Hybrid: 6.8% (352 postings)
Onsite roles are the clear majority in this dataset. If you're specifically targeting remote backend roles, that's roughly 1 in 5 of what's currently open, not the default.
Salary transparency
11.3% of active backend postings (582 of 5,155) include a stated salary range. That's the honest transparency rate on our board right now: most listings still don't publish a number.
Among the postings that do specify a range in US dollars, the average low end is approximately $173,000 and the average high end is approximately $270,000. That range reflects only the subset of USD-denominated postings with a stated salary, not the full dataset, and skews toward senior-heavy roles given the seniority mix above.
Geographic trends
Among postings with a specified country, the United States accounts for the largest share (2,103 postings), followed by India (329), Canada (199), the United Kingdom (152), and Brazil (127). Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Singapore, and South Korea round out the next tier, each in the 40-65 posting range.
What this means if you're job hunting
- Cloud-platform breadth matters more than picking one. AWS still leads, but GCP and Azure combined show real multi-cloud demand. If your resume only mentions one platform, naming a second (even briefly) may broaden your match.
- Salary transparency is still the exception, not the rule. With only about 1 in 9 postings specifying a range, don't wait for every listing to publish a number before applying - and don't assume silence means a lowball offer.
- Remote-only backend roles are a real but minority slice. If remote is a hard requirement, expect to filter out roughly 4 in 5 of what's currently posted rather than treating remote as the default search mode.
Browse current backend engineering roles, filtered by remote policy, seniority, and more, at Hire.monster/jobs.
This report is based on Hire.monster's own job board data, sourced directly from company applicant tracking systems. It reflects the state of the board for the period specified and is not a survey or third-party estimate.