Backend Engineer Resume Keywords

Top 20 skills in backend engineer job postings

1. 1

   Python
   34% of postings28% as required
2. 2

   AWS
   25% of postings20% as required
3. 3

   Go
   22% of postings20% as required
4. 4

   Java
   22% of postings18% as required
5. 5

   Kubernetes
   19% of postings16% as required
6. 6

   Distributed systems
   17% of postings16% as required
7. 7

   SQL
   16% of postings16% as required
8. 8

   PostgreSQL
   16% of postings10% as required
9. 9

   Docker
   13% of postings11% as required
10. 10

    APIs
    13% of postings13% as required
11. 11

    TypeScript
    12% of postings11% as required
12. 12

    API design
    10% of postings10% as required
13. 13

    Spring Boot
    9% of postings7% as required
14. 14

    Data modeling
    9% of postings9% as required
15. 15

    Node.js
    9% of postings9% as required
16. 16

    GCP
    8% of postings8% as required
17. 17

    Kafka
    8% of postings5% as required
18. 18

    Observability
    7% of postings7% as required
19. 19

    REST APIs
    7% of postings6% as required
20. 20

    Azure
    7% of postings6% as required

Source: public postings from employer career sites collected by LetMeApply. Skills are read from each posting with AI and merged across spellings (for example, AWS and Amazon Web Services). Each employer counts at most 3 times, so one company hiring in bulk does not skew the list.