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Backend Engineering salary in New York

Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 21, 2026

Backend Engineering pay in New York is measured from 128 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is senior, where 76 postings put the middle half between $184,538 and $225,156, with a median of $203,000.

Pay rises with seniority here: the medians run mid-level $180,000 and senior $203,000. Moving from mid-level to senior is worth roughly 13% more.

Against the 15 other measured markets for backend engineering at senior, this sits below 7 of them; San Francisco leads at $228,750.

1 of these ranges rests on fewer than 10 postings, so read it as a strong hint rather than a benchmark; the sample column shows exactly what backs each number.

108 backend engineering roles are open in New York right now, 108 listing pay.

LevelMarket rangeMedianSample
Mid $158,399 – $225,725 $180,000 47
Senior $184,538 – $225,156 $203,000 76
Lead $185,000 – $188,500 $185,000 5hint

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 level. Median is the 50th percentile. Sample is the number of postings measured.

Open backend engineering roles in New York · 108 with stated pay

this job's paywhere most pay sits here, $158,000–$300,000scale $90,000–$420,000

Front Office Java Developer Ms · New York New $120,000–$170,000 2d ago Software Engineer, Backend Mirage · New York $175,000–$300,000 4d ago Sr. Backend Engineer II, AutoScaling & Balancing, NG-SIEM (Hybrid) CrowdStrike · Austin $160,000–$250,000 5d ago Associate Backend Engineer Eulerity · New York $95,000–$125,000 3w ago Senior Backend Software Engineer (E-Commerce) peloton · New York $173,478–$213,957 3w ago Senior Backend Engineer Citizen · New York $200,000–$260,000 4w ago Lead Java Developer, Software Engineering – Platform Engineering - Vice President Blackrock · New York $162,000–$215,000 4w ago Senior Java Developer Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation · New York $158,000–$205,000 5w ago Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Product Engineering) Brex · New York $192,000–$240,000 5w ago Software Engineer II, Backend Brex · New York $152,000–$190,000 5w ago Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Anthropic · New York $320,000–$485,000 5w ago Software Engineer - Backend Cogent Security · San Francisco $100,000–$300,000 5w ago Principal Engineer, Distributed Systems CoreWeave · New York $227,000–$303,000 5w ago Senior Backend Software Engineer, AI Observability & Evals Platform (LangSmith) LangChain · Cambridge $170,000–$235,000 6w ago Senior Backend Engineer Industrious · New York $150,000–$170,000 6w ago Lead Distributed Systems Engineer Cape · New York $250,000–$325,000 6w ago Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Infrastructure Focus) Kira · New York $180,000–$250,000 6w ago Backend Engineer II - Healthcare H1 · New York $110,000–$135,000 7w ago Backend Engineer — Data Pipeline Sunset · New York $200,000 7w ago AVP Senior Java Developer Fa Ewjt Saasfaprod1 · New York $145,000–$160,000 8w ago Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Communications Platform) squarespace · New York $185,500–$299,000 8w ago Vice President, Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - Aladdin Engineering Blackrock · New York $155,000–$210,000 2mo ago Senior Backend Software Engineer Regard · New York $175,000–$230,000 2mo ago Python Engineer- Trade Operations (USA) Trexquant Investment · New York $150,000–$200,000 2mo ago Senior Software Engineer, Backend Posh · New York $200,000–$225,000 2mo ago Software Engineer, Backend (Product) Clay Labs · New York $170,000–$300,000 2mo ago Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure & Platform) Clay Labs · New York $170,000–$300,000 2mo ago Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, Maps Radar · New York $200,000–$300,000 2mo ago Software Architect, Back-End TED Conferences, LLC · Remote · US $175,000–$200,000 2mo ago Senior Java Developer Talan · New York $130,000–$150,000 2mo ago Staff Backend Software Engineer Fox Corporation · New York $143,000–$190,000 2mo ago Software Engineer Backend (Java) CLEAR - Corporate · New York $180,000–$220,000 2mo ago Backend Engineer Town.com, Inc. · New York $250,000–$300,000 3mo ago Staff Backend Engineer - Submission Processing Kalepa · New York $246,000–$314,000 3mo ago Distributed Systems Engineer Fluidstack · San Francsisco $208,000–$269,000 3mo ago Software Engineer (Fullstack and Backend Roles) CLEAR - Corporate · New York $180,000–$220,000 3mo ago Senior Software Engineer (Backend) Counsel Health · New York $185,000–$225,000 3mo ago Senior Backend Software Engineer Alpaca Health · New York $200,000–$250,000 4mo ago Staff Software Engineer, Backend - NYC Harvey · New York $238,000–$290,000 4mo ago Senior Software Engineer, Backend - NYC Harvey · New York $193,400–$290,000 4mo ago Senior Software Engineer, Engine & Distributed Systems StackAI · San Francisco $202,000–$230,000 4mo ago Software Engineer, Backend (Mid/Senior) Imprint · New York $140,000–$200,000 4mo ago Senior Backend Engineer, Perpetuals Polymarket · New York $250,000–$400,000 4mo ago Senior Software Engineer - Backend Sigma Computing · New York $170,000–$240,000 4mo ago Staff Software Engineer - Backend Sigma Computing · New York $240,000–$270,000 4mo ago Senior/Software Engineer II, Backend Duolingo · New York $182,800–$247,300 4mo ago Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform) Perplexity · San Francisco $220,000–$405,000 4mo ago Staff Software Engineer, Backend Posh · New York $250,000–$300,000 5mo ago Staff Backend Engineer - Core Product (New York) Kalepa · New York $246,000–$314,000 5mo ago Software Engineer, Backend, Growth Ramp · New York $200,000–$310,000 5mo ago Staff Software Engineer, Backend Imprint · New York $200,000–$240,000 5mo ago Sr. Platform Software Engineer Standard Template Labs · New York $160,000–$250,000 5mo ago Senior Backend Engineer US Mobile · New York $140,000–$180,000 6mo ago Senior Backend Software Engineer - Application Development Palantir · New York $135,000–$200,000 6mo ago Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure Palantir · New York $135,000–$200,000 6mo ago Backend Engineer, AI Rain · New York $200,000–$250,000 7mo ago Staff Backend Software Engineer Databricks · New York $190,000–$261,250 7mo ago Staff Backend Engineer Uniswap Labs · New York $207,000–$259,000 7mo ago Senior Backend Engineer Uniswap Labs · New York $180,000–$226,000 7mo ago Backend Engineer, Ops Engineering Ramp · New York $168,000–$284,900 7mo ago

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