Backend Engineer market hub
Backend Engineer jobs by city
Compare backend engineer markets across the strongest cities in Metaintro's live index. Publishable city pages show real openings, level mix, employer tiers, and sample listings.
Data updated Oct 11, 2026
Role and market snapshot
A quick read on demand before you open the live market briefs
Markets
- 36
- Publishable role and city combinations currently above Metaintro's data gate.
Tracked jobs
- 1,246
- Unique live openings across this hub's indexed publishable markets.
Companies hiring
- 638
- Unique employers across this hub's indexed publishable markets.
Salary coverage
- 25
- Markets with enough posted compensation to show a median.
Where backend engineer hiring is strongest
Open a city market brief to inspect live backend engineer demand, employer mix, compensation coverage, and representative openings.
- San Francisco, CA321 jobs200 companiesMedian listed comp $172,400
- New York City, NY317 jobs189 companiesMedian listed comp $170,000
- San Jose, CA156 jobs87 companiesMedian listed comp $160,500
- Seattle, WA129 jobs65 companiesMedian listed comp $154,500
- Washington, DC99 jobs58 companiesMedian listed comp $131,000
- Oakland, CA96 jobs50 companiesMedian listed comp $170,000
- Dallas, TX69 jobs31 companiesMedian listed comp $121,500
- Boston, MA67 jobs42 companiesMedian listed comp $146,600
- Baltimore, MD66 jobs35 companiesMedian listed comp $135,000
- Los Angeles, CA64 jobs34 companiesMedian listed comp $157,000
- Austin, TX59 jobs37 companiesMedian listed comp $140,480
- Fort Worth, TX52 jobs21 companiesMedian listed comp $124,800
- Arlington, TX51 jobs20 companiesMedian listed comp $120,400
- Plano, TX51 jobs20 companiesMedian listed comp $120,400
- Newark, NJ43 jobs15 companiesMedian listed comp $151,160
- Jersey City, NJ41 jobs13 companiesMedian listed comp $151,160
- Chicago, IL37 jobs25 companiesMedian listed comp $122,820
- Denver, CO32 jobs19 companiesMedian listed comp $125,700
- Atlanta, GA28 jobs21 companiesMedian listed comp $105,000
- Phoenix, AZ27 jobs19 companies
- Detroit, MI19 jobs11 companies
- Long Beach, CA17 jobs12 companiesMedian listed comp $141,860
- San Diego, CA17 jobs12 companiesMedian listed comp $139,450
- Santa Ana, CA17 jobs11 companiesMedian listed comp $133,400
- Anaheim, CA16 jobs11 companiesMedian listed comp $140,930
- Irvine, CA16 jobs10 companiesMedian listed comp $133,400
- Charlotte, NC15 jobs7 companies
- Jacksonville, FL14 jobs9 companies
- Mesa, AZ14 jobs9 companies
- Glendale, AZ13 jobs8 companies
- Portland, OR13 jobs11 companiesMedian listed comp $125,700
- Chandler, AZ12 jobs7 companies
- Houston, TX12 jobs9 companies
- Richmond, VA12 jobs5 companies
- Gilbert, AZ11 jobs6 companies
- Miami, FL11 jobs9 companies
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