Lead Backend Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-08-26, Skillenai has indexed 3 job postings with the title “Lead Backend Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is PostgreSQL.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-08-26
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+How many Lead Backend Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 3 job postings with the title “Lead Backend Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-08-26.
+What skills do Lead Backend Engineer jobs require?
Across Lead Backend Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-08-26, the skills mentioned most often are PostgreSQL, Kotlin, backend development, JOOQ, WhatsApp Business API.
+Which cities are hiring the most Lead Backend Engineer?
As of 2026-08-26, Lead Backend Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Tokyo.
+Is Lead Backend Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 3 Lead Backend Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-08-26. The skill mentioned most often in Lead Backend Engineer postings is PostgreSQL, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Lead Backend Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Lead Backend Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | 2 | 66.7% |
| Kotlin | 2 | 66.7% |
| backend development | 2 | 66.7% |
| JOOQ | 1 | 33.3% |
| WhatsApp Business API | 1 | 33.3% |
| AWS ECS | 1 | 33.3% |
| Rest Assured | 1 | 33.3% |
| Kotest | 1 | 33.3% |
| Spring Boot | 1 | 33.3% |
| Gremlin | 1 | 33.3% |
| AWS SNS | 1 | 33.3% |
| Container APIs | 1 | 33.3% |
| Swift | 1 | 33.3% |
| Docker | 1 | 33.3% |
| Agile | 1 | 33.3% |
Top metros hiring Lead Backend Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tokyo | 1 | 33.3% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-08-26, matching postings whose canonical role is “Lead Backend Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Lead Backend Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-08-26
- window_days
- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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