Backend Engineering Careers in Japan: What 464 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 464
- 179
- 64%
- 52%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
59
3-4 years of experience
118
5-9 years of experience
112
10+ years of experience
7
10%
11% day-to-day or above
AWS
57%
SQL
39%
API Development
38%
Google Cloud
38%
Docker
33%
CI/CD
29%
TypeScript
28%
Java
27%
464 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
10%
5% day-to-day or above
59 postings
3–4 years
8%
12% day-to-day or above
AWS 63% (+31)
Google Cloud 45% (+31)
Terraform 35% (+27)
TypeScript 35% (+25)
SQL 51% (+24)
118 postings
5+ years
17%
16% day-to-day or above
119 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥8,500,000 · 240 postings state pay
¥6,800,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥10,000,000
Median ¥8,000,000 · 70 postings state pay
¥6,500,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥9,000,000
Median ¥9,300,000 · 67 postings state pay
¥8,100,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥10,900,000
Working Conditions
- 122 days
76 postings
- 19 h
48 postings
- 52%
- 26%
Fully remote
53
Hybrid
118
On-site
19
462 postings
What Comes Next
People management
26
Specialist track
21
Project management
15
Senior leadership
4
Employers naming each step, of 30 that name one
Levels by Job Title
Specialist track
Entry / new graduate
3
Junior / associate
1
Senior
39
Principal
1
Management track
Team lead
26
Manager
9
Individual-contributor level
44 postings from 33 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Backend Engineering · individual-contributor level
median ¥9,382,501 · 26 postings
Too few stated salaries to publish a range
English · 42 postings
Daily English
5%
Some English
12%
No English stated
83%
Japanese · 42 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
88%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
10%
No level stated
2%
5 years median (middle half 3 to 5)
over 25 postings stating a threshold
18% of postings (8)
Team-lead level
26 postings from 10 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Backend Engineering · team-lead level
English · 25 postings
Daily English
4%
Some English
4%
No English stated
92%
Japanese · 26 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
96%
Elementary Proficiency (JLPT N4)
4%
3 years median (middle half 2 to 5)
over 20 postings stating a threshold
8% of postings (2)
Project Management 62% (+39 pts over the level below)
Java 35% (+17 pts over the level below)
Azure 31% (+17 pts over the level below)
Agile 38% (+13 pts over the level below)
terms counted over 26 postings at this level
4 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Who Is Hiring
All Backend Engineering openings
464 postings from 179 employers, as of 2026-09-22
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Backend Engineering career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Backend Engineering job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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