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Backend Engineer · New York State

$206,900

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▼ -2.9%

$213,000 $206,900

$180.1k 25th

$206.9k Median

$235k 75th

$150k

$275k

Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $41.6k – $1,000k · outliers off-axis

Disclosing: 81.4%
Live roles: 215

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$1,000,000 – $1,000,000

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$374,400 – $520,000

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Polymarket · New York

$250,000 – $500,000

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Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City,…

$405,000 – $485,000

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Twenty · New York, NY

$192,000 – $455,000

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OpenAI · New York City

$266,000 – $445,000

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Perplexity · San Francisco

$220,000 – $405,000

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

Perplexity · San Francisco

$220,000 – $405,000

Staff Backend Engineer

Giga · New York

$200,000 – $400,000

Staff Backend Engineer

Polymarket · New York

$250,000 – $400,000

Top companies hiring

Company	Median	Roles
Robinhood	$180,500	8
Palantir	$167,500	6
Ramp	$242,000	5
Brex	$216,000	5
OpenAI	$340,500	4
KA Kalepa	$254,750	4
Oscar Health	$183,150	4
Harvey	$264,000	3