Backend Engineer salary
20 market ranges · employer-stated pay · updated Oct 24, 2026
The best-evidenced figure here is for backend engineer roles at senior level across the United States: 112 postings where the employer stated pay put the middle half between $179,375 and $237,625, with a median of $202,750.
Pay rises with seniority across the United States: the medians run mid-level $183,750 and senior $202,750. Moving from mid-level to senior is worth roughly 10% more.
Every range here is counted from real postings, never modelled. 10 of the 20 ranges in the table rest on fewer than 10 postings and are marked hint: treat those as hints rather than benchmarks.
Every measured range
20 by market and level| Market | Level | Market range | Median | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States · country-wide | Mid | $161,250 – $208,750 | $183,750 | 54 |
| United Kingdom · country-wide | Mid | £75,000 – £98,375 | £77,750 | 7hint |
| Canada · country-wide | Mid | CA$106,250 – CA$190,000 | CA$135,000 | 6hint |
| Germany · country-wide | Mid | €65,000 – €100,000 | €90,000 | 5hint |
| United States · country-wide | Senior | $179,375 – $237,625 | $202,750 | 112 |
| Canada · country-wide | Senior | CA$135,000 – CA$180,940 | CA$150,000 | 21 |
| United Kingdom · country-wide | Senior | £95,000 – £107,138 | £99,625 | 12 |
| Germany · country-wide | Senior | €83,125 – €109,000 | €104,500 | 6hint |
| Spain · country-wide | Senior | €72,500 – €90,013 | €80,000 | 6hint |
| Remote · United States | Mid | $152,500 – $194,875 | $177,967 | 10 |
| Remote · United States | Senior | $177,500 – $229,475 | $200,000 | 39 |
| Remote · United Kingdom | Senior | £102,588 – £160,725 | £111,425 | 6hint |
| Remote · Canada | Senior | CA$150,000 – CA$180,940 | CA$165,470 | 6hint |
| London | Senior | £91,250 – £98,188 | £95,000 | 6hint |
| Mountain View | Senior | $223,000 – $242,500 | $238,000 | 5hint |
| New York | Mid | $167,967 – $225,000 | $200,000 | 11 |
| New York | Senior | $183,152 – $229,625 | $203,000 | 20 |
| San Francisco | Mid | $190,500 – $215,000 | $197,500 | 18 |
| San Francisco | Senior | $225,000 – $254,000 | $245,250 | 21 |
| Toronto | Senior | CA$143,875 – CA$188,750 | CA$160,000 | 7hint |
Entry is junior titles. Mid is mid-level and manager titles. Senior is senior titles. Lead is director, VP and above. Rows marked hint rest on fewer than 10 postings: read them as a hint, not a benchmark.
Ranges span the 25th to 75th percentile of employer-stated base pay for the market and level. Median is the 50th percentile. Sample is the number of postings measured.
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Open backend engineer roles · 201 with stated pay
this job's paywhere most pay sits here, $150,000–$260,000scale $90,000–$370,000
Senior Backend Engineer - Adtech / SSP Nexxen · Bellevue New $180,000–$200,000 1d ago 
Senior Backend Engineer - Access Control Verkada · San Mateo New $150,000–$300,000 1d ago 
Backend Engineer - Sponsored Content & Products (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg New €60,000–€70,000 2d ago Backend Engineer - Sponsored Content & Products (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg New €60,000–€70,000 2d ago 
Senior Backend Engineer (AI Agent) Bigcommerce · Remote · US New $116,000–$195,000 3d ago Senior Backend Engineer - Device Platform Verkada · San Mateo New $190,000–$275,000 3d ago Senior Backend Engineer - Checkout (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg €70,000–€85,000 4d ago 
Senior Backend Engineer – Contacts Wise · Tallinn €69,000–€85,000 4d ago Sr. Backend Engineer II, AutoScaling & Balancing, NG-SIEM (Hybrid) CrowdStrike · Austin $160,000–$250,000 5d ago 
Staff Backend Engineer - Performance - US Teleport · Remote · US $222,000–$342,000 2w ago Senior Backend Engineer - Intercom Verkada · San Mateo $175,000–$300,000 2w ago 
Backend Engineer - senior hire Kovo · Remote · US $150,000–$250,000 2w ago 
Backend Engineer MLabs · Singapore SGD 115,000–SGD 140,000 3w ago Senior Backend Engineer | $165K-$175K + Hybrid + Equity | SaaS Outage Intelligence Startup PhillyTech.Co · King of Prussia $165,000–$175,000 3w ago Senior Backend Engineer Verkada · San Mateo $170,000–$260,000 3w ago Staff Backend Engineer - Licensing & Revenue Platform Verkada · San Mateo $150,000–$300,000 3w ago 
Associate Backend Engineer Eulerity · New York $95,000–$125,000 3w ago 
Staff Backend Engineer (Digital Foot Print) Laurel · Remote · US $251,000–$275,000 3w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer Monte Carlo · Remote · US $180,000–$230,000 3w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer Solace · Remote · US $150,000–$200,000 3w ago 
Backend Engineer - Acquisition Technology iwoca · London £70,000–£85,000 3w ago 
Sr Backend Engineer taboola · Los Angeles $165,000–$185,000 3w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | Canada | Remote Grafana Labs · Remote · Canada CA$164,490–CA$197,389 3w ago Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | US | Remote Grafana Labs · Remote · US $154,445–$185,334 3w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer, Growth & MSSP Horizon3 AI · Remote · US $170,000–$235,000 3w ago Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations Horizon3 AI · Remote · US $170,000–$235,000 3w ago Backend Engineer - Recommendation (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg oder Berlin €60,000–€70,000 4w ago Backend Engineer - Recommendation (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg or Berlin €60,000–€70,000 4w ago Senior Backend Engineer - Search & Discovery (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg oder Berlin €70,000–€85,000 4w ago Senior Backend Engineer - Search & Discovery (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg or Berlin €70,000–€85,000 4w ago Senior Backend Engineer - Sorting (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg oder Berlin €70,000–€85,000 4w ago Senior Backend Engineer - Ranking Systems (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg oder Berlin €70,000–€85,000 4w ago Senior Backend Engineer - Sorting (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg or Berlin €70,000–€85,000 4w ago Senior Backend Engineer - Ranking Systems (all genders) ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG · Hamburg or Berlin €70,000–€85,000 4w ago 
Staff Backend Engineer Afresh · Remote · US $168,000–$253,000 4w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer Citizen · New York $200,000–$260,000 4w ago 
Junior Backend Engineer (Europe) Kalepa · Remote · Europe $60,000–$70,000 4w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer Offchain · Remote · US $193,461–$291,000 4w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer CreatorIQ · Remote · Poland PLN 299,000–PLN 359,000 5w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Enablement GitLab · Remote · US $156,800–$235,200 5w ago 
Backend Engineer Resend · Remote · Ireland $140,000–$180,000 5w ago Backend Engineer - Partner Flow iwoca · London £60,000–£85,000 5w ago 
Senior Staff Cloud Backend Engineer Coupang · Seattle $299,000 5w ago Sr Backend Engineer, Falcon NG-SIEM, Global Serverless Platform (Hybrid) CrowdStrike · Austin $140,000–$215,000 5w ago Staff Backend Engineer, Customer Value Optimization HelloFresh · Toronto CA$182,000–CA$215,000 5w ago Senior Backend Engineer, Autonomous Defense Horizon3 AI · Remote · US $170,000–$235,000 5w ago Sr. Backend Engineer, Ordering Afresh · Remote · US $156,000–$210,000 6w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer Industrious · New York $150,000–$170,000 6w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer Mintlify · San Francisco $190,000–$265,000 6w ago Staff Backend Engineer Wise · Hyderabad ₹7,800,000–₹11,500,000 6w ago Senior Backend Engineer, Trusted Agentic Development GitLab · Remote · Poland PLN 272,000–PLN 408,000 6w ago Senior Backend Engineer Volarisgroup (BiblioCommons) · Canada - Ontario CA$110,000–CA$130,000 6w ago 
Backend Engineer creator · Vancouver CA$90,000–CA$105,000 6w ago 
Backend Engineer, IoT Architecture & Migration Fellow · San Francisco $200,000–$230,000 7w ago 
Backend Engineer II - Healthcare H1 · New York $110,000–$135,000 7w ago 
Backend Engineer II, Location Platforms Ouryahoo · United States of America $111,000–$231,250 7w ago 
Backend Engineer — Data Pipeline Sunset · New York $200,000 7w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer Peec AI · Berlin €100,000–€150,000 7w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer - Anywhere Cloud Cloudera · California-San Jose $152,000–$190,000 7w ago 
Senior Backend Engineer RevenueCat · Remote · US $230,000 7w ago 60 of 203 open roles. All backend engineer jobs