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Where companies are hiring backend developers
390 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
- 390
- Countries
- 18
- Remote share
- 36%
- Deepest market
- United States
107 openings
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United States and Germany are the two deepest markets for backend developers, within 9 openings of each other.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 107 | 42 | 55% | 2.5 | 770% |
| Germany | 98 | 60 | 21% | 1.6 | 750% |
| United Kingdom | 60 | 25 | 42% | 2.4 | 660% |
| Poland | 19 | 7 | 58% | 2.7 | 600% |
| Canada | 28 | 9 | 29% | 3.1 | 500% |
| India | 17 | 6 | 18% | 2.8 | 400% |
| France | 16 | 8 | 6% | 2 | 380% |
| Spain | 9 | 4 | 22% | 2.3 | 330% |
| Portugal | 5 | 3 | 40% | 1.7 | 33 |
| Brazil | 6 | 4 | 50% | 1.5 | 300% |
| Switzerland | 6 | 5 | 0% | 1.2 | 24 |
| Ireland | 7 | 2 | 0% | 3.5 | 210% |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1 | 100% | 2 | 210% |
| Sweden | 4 | 1 | 0% | 4 | 190% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 2 | 33% | 1.5 | 170% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 15 |
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1 | 50% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1 | 00% |
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 We do not publish applicants-per-role: no source in this pipeline reports how many people applied to anything, so that number would be invented.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
- 1GitLab59 open roles
- 2SumUp31 open roles
- 3Verkada20 open roles
- 4Stripe18 open roles
- 5HelloFresh14 open roles
- 6Elastic13 open roles
- 7N2612 open roles
- 8Okta10 open roles
- 9Spotify10 open roles
- 10Kpler9 open roles
- 11Reddit7 open roles
- 12WHOOP6 open roles
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