Market slice

Backend Engineer jobs in New York City

1,038 open Backend Engineer jobs in New York City. Median salary $173k, 7.6% remote, 82 posted this week.

Open roles

1,038

82 new this week

Median salary

$173k

4.0% disclose pay

Remote share

7.6%

of all openings

Median age of posting

74d

32.2% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted74d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	7.6%
Median age	74 days
Older than 60 days	32.2%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

$78k$299k

Based on 42 postings that disclose pay — 4.0% of this slice.

Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.

Percentile	Salary
25th	$136,500
Median	$173,000
75th	$214,500
90th	$263,000

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

Lakeshore Hospitality

Top technologies

72.0%

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

41.0%

34.8%

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Budgeting

58.0%

Forecasting

52.6%

Negotiation

47.2%

Cross-functional leadership

41.8%

Data modelling

36.4%

Vendor management

31.0%

Distributed systems

25.6%

Coaching

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

7.6%

Hybrid

55.3%

In Person

37.1%

Top locations

New York City

34.0%

United States

30.4%

Canada

26.8%

United Kingdom

23.2%

Ireland

19.6%

Germany

16.0%

France

12.4%

Netherlands

8.8%

Employers

322

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

7.6%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

4.0%

of postings publish pay

Live openings

Latest Backend Engineer jobs in New York City

Staff Backend Engineer

Lakeshore Hospitality · New York, New York, United States

$156k – $261kper year

In Person Seniorhospitality travel Senior 108d ago

Junior Backend Engineer

Tidewater Insurance · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Juniorinsurance Junior 14d ago Visa sponsored

Backend Engineer

Umbra Security · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

In Person 177d ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Northwind Systems · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Seniortech software it Senior 69d ago

Backend Engineer

Meridian Software · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

Hybrid tech software it 131d ago

Backend Engineer

Beacon Robotics · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

In Person 170d ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Pinewood Education · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Senioreducation Senior 13d ago

Staff Backend Engineer

Rivergate Media · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Seniormedia entertainment Senior 161d ago Visa sponsored

Staff Backend Engineer

Quarry Analytics · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

Remote Senior Senior 48d ago

Junior Backend Engineer

Aperture Labs · New York, New York, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Junior Junior 118d ago Visa sponsored

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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many backend engineer jobs are open in New York City?

We track backend engineer openings published in New York City, refreshed continuously. The count at the top of this page is the current total. Job postings read directly from company applicant tracking systems.

What does a backend engineer earn in New York City?

The median advertised salary is shown above, alongside the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles. Only postings that publish a salary are included, so the sample is smaller than the total number of openings.

How do I get this data through an API?

Every number on this page comes from one call to our jobs and insights endpoints. See the API documentation for the request shape and filters.

Figures cover 1,038 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →

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