Backend Java Engineer

597 US job postings, 247 of them in the 30 days to 2026-10-28. Data as of 2026-10-29.

Skills employers ask for

Java — 25% of postings
Spring Boot — 18% of postings
Spring — 17% of postings
Microservices — 14% of postings
REST API — 14% of postings
CI/CD — 10% of postings
Kubernetes — 8% of postings
SQL — 8% of postings
Kafka — 8% of postings
Agile — 8% of postings

Where the jobs are

California — 19%
Texas — 18%
New York — 16%
Illinois — 13%
Washington — 10%
Massachusetts — 8%
New Jersey — 3%
Arizona — 3%

Advertised pay

Annual pay: median $110K/yr, middle half $89K/yr to $144K/yr (33 postings)
Hourly pay: median $62/hr, middle half $56/hr to $70/hr (23 postings)

Remote, hybrid or onsite

Of 550 postings that state it: 34% remote, 33% hybrid, 33% onsite.

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