MogiBackend Engineer Postings Fall Eight Percent
Job postings for Backend Engineers saw a decrease in the last seven days.
By Kenji Mori, Mogi Research · Oct 13, 2026
Backend Engineer job postings fell eight percent in the week ending October thirteen. Postings for this role went from three hundred fifty two to two hundred eighty two. This change is one of several decreases seen across top roles in the same period.
Frontend Engineer postings fell eight percent, while Analytics Engineer postings fell eleven percent. Machine Learning Engineer postings decreased thirteen percent. Data Engineer postings saw a nineteen percent fall.
These changes may be due to a seasonal slowdown in hiring. Alternatively, employers may be reassessing their immediate staffing needs. A reduction in overall job postings was also observed across all roles, falling twenty seven percent.
The numbers
Which role families saw the biggest growth in postings in the last 7 days?
| Name | Last 7 days | The 7 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backend Engineer | 282 | 352 | -20% |
| Frontend Engineer | 131 | 143 | -8% |
| Analytics Engineer | 78 | 88 | -11% |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 207 | 238 | -13% |
| Data Engineer | 630 | 776 | -19% |
Top employers: Jobgether (18), Encora Inc. (12), Raydar (9)
Top states: California (17), New York (7), ON, Canada (2)
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 2026-10-13 with the 7 days before them. Covers all countries, 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 Kenji Mori of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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