Backend salary
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Pay range climbing
$171,000 → $237,861
25th percentile
$171,000
Entry of the range
Median pay
25%$213,000
+25% vs 25th
75th percentile
39%$237,861
+39% vs 25th
Based on 20 listed salaries · 308 live matches
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Highest listed salaries first
Software Engineer, Backend — Dots
OpenAI · New York City · Hybrid
$347K–$385KActiveSenior Backend Engineer, Security
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA ; San Francsico, CA, USA · Hybrid
$263KActiveStaff Backend Engineer, Core DevOps
GitLab · Remote, Canada; Remote, United States · Remote
$259KActiveSenior Software Engineer, Backend (SIG)
Anduril Industries · Santa Ana, California, United States · On-site
$253KActiveSoftware Engineer, Backend
Stripe · Seattle, WA · On-site
$206K–$286KActiveSenior Backend Engineer, Platform Enablement
GitLab · Remote, United States · Remote
$235KActiveSenior Software Engineer, Backend
Brex · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Hybrid
$192K–$240KActiveSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Product Engineering)
Brex · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$192K–$240KActiveSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Product Engineering)
Brex · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$192K–$240KActiveSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Product Engineering)
Brex · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid
$192K–$240KActiveSenior Backend Software Engineer, AI Observability & Evals Platform (NYC)
LangChain · New York, NY · On-site
$180K–$240KActiveSenior Software Engineer, Backend
Stripe · Seattle, WA · On-site
$86K–$286KActiveStaff Backend Engineer, Customer Value Optimization
HelloFresh · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$182KActiveSoftware Engineer II, Backend
Brex · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Hybrid
$152K–$190KActiveSoftware Engineer II, Backend
Brex · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid
$152K–$190KActiveSoftware Engineer II, Backend
Brex · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$152K–$190KActiveSenior Software Engineer — Backend (Files Team)
Databricks · San Francisco, California · On-site
$166KActiveBackend Engineer, Knowledge Graph
GitLab · Remote, Canada; Remote, United States · Remote
$162KNewSenior Software Engineer, Backend — Toast International
Toast · Canada Hybrid (Ontario) · Hybrid
$115KActive(Senior) Backend Software Engineer (Java) - Metadata Platform DB
Celonis · Munich, Germany · Hybrid
$42K–$146KActiveIntermediate Backend Engineer, Pipeline Authoring
GitLab · Remote, Poland · Remote
Pay not listedNewBackend Engineer, UI Platform
Stripe · Barcelona, Spain · On-site
Pay not listedNewSenior Backend Engineer, Cloud Platform
ClickUp · United Kingdom · Hybrid
Pay not listedNewBackend Engineer - Mapping Tools
Waymo · Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland · On-site
Pay not listedActiveBackend / API Engineer, Radar
Stripe · Toronto · On-site
Pay not listedActiveBackend / API Engineer, Radar
Stripe · San Francisco, Seattle, New York · On-site
Pay not listedActiveBackend Engineer (Ruby), Create: Change Record
GitLab · Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom · Remote
Pay not listedActiveSenior Backend Engineer (Kotlin) - Cards
SumUp · Sofia, Bulgaria · On-site
Pay not listedActiveSenior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps: Container Registry
GitLab · Remote, United Kingdom · Remote
Pay not listedActiveSenior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps
GitLab · Remote, United Kingdom · Remote
Pay not listedActiveBackend Engineer, Payments & Risk
Stripe · Toronto, Canada · Hybrid
Pay not listedActiveBackend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform
Stripe · Toronto Canada, San Francisco, Remote in US, Remote in Canada · Remote
Pay not listedActiveBackend Engineer - Run & Grow
SumUp · Sofia, Bulgaria · On-site
Pay not listedActiveSenior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Production Engineering:Tenant Controls
GitLab · Remote, Poland · Remote
Pay not listedActiveStaff Backend Product Engineer, Operations Technology
HelloFresh · Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland · On-site
Pay not listedActiveStaff Software Engineer, Backend
Toast · Bangalore, India · Hybrid
Pay not listedActiveSenior Backend Engineer - Run & Grow
SumUp · Cologne, Germany · On-site
Pay not listedActiveSenior Backend Engineer - Run & Grow
SumUp · Berlin, Germany · On-site
Pay not listedActiveSenior Backend Engineer, Inference Cloud
Cerebras · Sunnyvale, CA · Hybrid
Pay not listedActiveStaff Backend Engineer - API Platform
Stripe · Dublin · On-site
Pay not listedActive