Lead Software Engineer, Backend at Jobgether
$215,000–$245,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on designing, building, and improving distributed, cloud-based backend systems at enterprise scale. Day-to-day work spans writing and reviewing code, optimizing performance and reliability, participating in incident response, and mentoring junior engineers. The role suits an experienced backend engineer comfortable taking technical ownership while collaborating across product, engineering, and business teams.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 83,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 50,000–125,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job title is 'Lead Software Engineer, Backend' but carries no explicit seniority level word (Junior/Mid/Senior/Staff/Principal) in the title itself, so the title states no level. The 7+ years requirement and technical leadership/mentorship scope support a Senior classification.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent professional experience', so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Data storage technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar) are listed together as a single requirement with interchangeable options. MySQL is emitted as the primary with PostgreSQL and MongoDB as alternatives; PostgreSQL and MongoDB are also listed separately as preferred to reflect that the JD names all three explicitly, though in practice only one is required.
No specific programming language is named in the requirements — the JD only references 'modern programming languages' generically, so no language skill is emitted.
Cloud platform is required but no specific provider is named; AWS, Azure, and GCP are listed as the well-known interchangeable substitutes.
This posting is listed via Jobgether (a staffing/matching intermediary); the actual hiring company is unnamed.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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