MogiBackend Engineer Job Postings Rise 39 Percent in US
Backend Engineer roles saw the largest percentage increase in US job postings over seven days.
By Maya Brooks, Mogi Research · Oct 11, 2026
Backend Engineer job postings rose thirty nine percent in the US over seven days. Postings went from sixty nine to ninety six. This was the biggest growth of any role family.
Analytics Engineer postings rose thirty four percent. Machine Learning Engineer postings rose fifteen percent. Data Analyst postings rose eleven percent.
This rise in Backend Engineer postings may be linked to increased demand for web services. It could also reflect new project needs at large financial firms. Affirm, a fintech company, also added postings.
The numbers
Which role family had the biggest job posting growth in the US over 7 days?
| Name | Last 7 days | The 7 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backend Engineer | 96 | 69 | +39% |
| Analytics Engineer | 39 | 29 | +34% |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 109 | 95 | +15% |
| Data Analyst | 210 | 190 | +11% |
| Frontend Engineer | 45 | 41 | +10% |
Top employers: JPMorgan Chase (10), Coherent Corp. US (4), Affirm (3)
Top states: California (17), New York (11), Delaware (9)
Backend Engineer jobs by city
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 7 days to 2026-10-11 with the 7 days before them. Covers US, all states, all roles. Employers with fewer than five postings in the last eight weeks are grouped together and left out of the rankings. The company details come from the crawl's company profiles, where the crawl has one.
Written by Maya Brooks of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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