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Where companies are hiring backend developers
221 backend developer roles are open across 18 countries right now. The table below counts every market the same way, so the comparison is like for like.
- Live openings
- 221
- Countries
- 18
- Remote share
- 27%
- Deepest market
- Germany
67 openings
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Germany is the deepest market for backend developers by a wide margin: 1.5× the openings of United States, the next one down.
Backend Developers by market
Sorted by opportunity: a blend of how many roles are open, how many different employers are posting them, what share is remote, and how central the role is to that country's market. It ranks the markets against each other, it is not a rating out of 100.
| Market | Openings | Employers | Remote | Jobs / employer | Opportunity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 67 | 54 | 10% | 1.2 | 73 |
| United States | 45 | 23 | 51% | 2 | 66 |
| United Kingdom | 29 | 14 | 41% | 2.1 | 57 |
| Canada | 17 | 6 | 47% | 2.8 | 46 |
| India | 18 | 6 | 6% | 3 | 42 |
| Brazil | 7 | 6 | 57% | 1.2 | 37 |
| Spain | 8 | 4 | 13% | 2 | 31 |
| Poland | 8 | 3 | 0% | 2.7 | 31 |
| France | 5 | 4 | 0% | 1.3 | 22 |
| Finland | 2 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 20 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 19 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 18 |
| Ireland | 4 | 2 | 0% | 2 | 17 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 15 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 13 |
| Japan | 2 | 2 | 0% | 1 | 9 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 9 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 6 |
Openings, employers and remote share are counted from live postings on company career pages, refreshed hourly. We do not publish applicants-per-role: no source in this pipeline reports how many people applied to anything, so that number would be invented.
Companies hiring the most backend developers worldwide
- 1GitLab33 open roles
- 2Stripe18 open roles
- 3SumUp15 open roles
- 4Verkada12 open roles
- 5N2611 open roles
- 6HelloFresh10 open roles
- 7WHOOP10 open roles
- 8name5 open roles
- 9Elastic5 open roles
- 10Adyen4 open roles
- 11Wolt4 open roles
- 12PostHog3 open roles
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