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Backend jobs on Hacker News - Who is hiring, and how demand trends

How demand for Backend trended in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts since 2011: a live monthly mention chart in share and raw counts, plus the real job postings behind every bar.

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Postings mentioning it
19,723
This month (Jun 2026)
7
Peak month
Aug 2021 (472)
Mention remote
49%
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Job postings

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Monthly Backend job postings in the Hacker News Who is hiring? thread, one bar per calendar month since 2011. Narrow the window, add another skill to compare, and click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

Backend job postings for June 2026

  1. james_impliu · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    PostHog | Full-Time | Product engineers, Technical CSMs, Forward deployed engineers | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+2 PostHog makes dev tools that help product engineers build successful products. * we have a public handbook (posthog.com handbook) if you want to…

  2. tmountain · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Neurotone.ai || Remote (Americas East Western Europe) || Full-time || neurotone.com We build AI-assisted auditory training for people with hearing loss. Our product is live, in clinics, and growing internationally. Backend Engineer: Postgres-heavy work on Supabase: PL pgSQL…

  3. steve_rahimi · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Pango | Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack, Technical Lead Software Engineer | Remote, LATAM | Full time Pango is building the world's first Agentic Operating System for e-commerce logistics. Our vision is to create the AI e-commerce employee of the future. We are forming our…

  4. fiiico · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Matcha | REMOTE (US Canada Europe UK LATAM) | Full-time | https: matcha.fm Repeat founder building something new and putting together a founding team. This high ownership, high equity, ideally for people with prior startup experience or previous founder founding team: AI…

  5. rustyparts · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Seeq | https: seeq.com | Staff Software Engineer (Frontend, Backend, Platform) | REMOTE (Some crossover w PST required) | Full-time | $170k + annual cash bonus + equity. Salary range for US-based; local adjustments for other countries. Seeq creates cutting-edge data analytics…

Some popular Backend job postings

The Backend job postings that drew the most discussion in 2026.

  1. thothmind · hiring in Jan 2026 · 8 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Thothmind | Software Engineers (Backend, Frontend) | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | https: thothmind.ai What we're building: - Strategy simulation engine with real market data - AI-powered agents for strategy generation and analysis - High-performance data pipelines and analytics…

  2. timgl · hiring in Feb 2026 · 6 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    PostHog | Full-Time | Product engineers, backend engineers, Technical AMs | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+2 PostHog equips developers to build successful products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay, a data warehouse, CDP and many more. * we…

  3. cuchoi · hiring in May 2026 · 4 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Enveritas (YC S18, non-profit) | Backend Software Engineer | Remote (Global) | https: enveritas.org jobs Enveritas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working on sustainability issues facing smallholder coffee farmers. We collect field data in 25+ countries and build systems for analyzing…

  4. joshwget · hiring in Jan 2026 · 3 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Hightouch | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $180,000 - $320,000 USD + equity Hightouch is the modern AI platform for marketing and growth teams. Our AI agents reimagine marketing workflows, allowing marketers to create content, plan campaigns, and execute strategies with…

  5. sunkencity · hiring in Jan 2026 · 3 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    teenage enginering | senior backend developer | full-time | stockholm ONSITE | https: teenage.engineering hello, as head of it, i'm looking for another top backend developer to expand our it team. the it team builds and runs the tech infrastructure for teenage engineering,…

What the Backend hiring trend shows

This page charts how often Backend appears in the monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread, one bar per calendar month across the whole history. Switch between share mode - Backend's slice of the market each month - and raw counts for absolute hiring volume, narrow the window to the last year, 5 or 10 years, and click any month to read the actual postings that mention Backend: the companies, the seniority, and the rest of the stack they ask for.

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