Backend Developer vs Data Engineer
Pay, skills and open jobs side by side, from current job postings across the US.
Pay
Backend Developer
$171,600 typical, a year
Most Backend Developers earn $140,000 to $205,000 a year.
From 10,762 postings that list pay
18,579 open jobs now
Data Engineer
$150,000 typical, a year
Most Data Engineers earn $127,400 to $179,500 a year.
From 1,363 postings that list pay
3,328 open jobs now
Backend Developers typically earn about $21,600 more a year than Data Engineers.
What each one does
Backend Developer
- Design, develop, and maintain software applications and systems.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code for software components.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and technical solutions.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure software reliability and performance.
- Participate in testing and validation to ensure software quality and functionality.
- Contribute to the design and architecture of software systems and solutions.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Data Engineer
- Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Develop and maintain data models using SQL and transformation tools.
- Implement data quality controls and monitoring to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize data systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Document data architectures and provide technical guidance to the team.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Backend Developer
Asked for in both
- Python 4 in 10 postings
- AWS 2 in 10 postings
More common in Backend Developer postings
- Technical Degree 3 in 10 postings
- Java 3 in 10 postings
- Software Development 2 in 10 postings
- CI/CD 2 in 10 postings
- Distributed Systems 2 in 10 postings
- C++ 2 in 10 postings
- Code Review 2 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 2 in 10 postings
Data Engineer
Asked for in both
- Python 6 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
More common in Data Engineer postings
- SQL 6 in 10 postings
- Data Engineering 6 in 10 postings
- Data Pipeline 4 in 10 postings
- Data Modeling 4 in 10 postings
- Databricks 3 in 10 postings
- ETL/ELT 3 in 10 postings
- Snowflake 3 in 10 postings
- Data Warehousing 3 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Backend Developer
Jr. Application Developer
ApolloMDPay not stated ATLANTA, GA 30328 HybridAWSSFTPTypeScriptReactPython +14Principal Software Engineer
TransCorePay not stated Norcross, GAAWSMicroservicesObservabilityAzureCI/CD +11Sr Analyst I Software Engineering
Rang TechnologiesPay not stated IND - TN - CHENNAICode ReviewSoftware Development
Data Engineer
Oracle Fusion ETL & Data Migration Engineer
Rang Technologies$97,100 - $180,300/yrstated USA - DC - WASHINGTON RemoteJSONOracleSQLInformaticaREST APIs +14Data Engineer
RainPay not stated San Juan, Puerto Rico, New York, NY, District of Columbia, Europe | SpainApache AirflowApache KafkaSnowflakePythonPub/Sub +15- Pay not stated San Juan, Puerto Rico, New York, NY, District of Columbia, Europe | SpainTerraformApache AirflowCI/CDPythonApache Kafka +14
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