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Backend Developer resume keywords, ranked from real postings

Not a generated synonym list — this is how often each term actually shows up across Backend Developer postings in our live crawl, ranked by the share of postings that mention it.

Ranked from 148 live Backend Developer postings

  1. 1AI43.9% · 65 of 148
  2. 2Go37.2% · 55 of 148
  3. 3Git35.1% · 52 of 148
  4. 4Kubernetes33.8% · 50 of 148
  5. 5Python32.4% · 48 of 148
  6. 6AWS31.1% · 46 of 148
  7. 7distributed systems30.4% · 45 of 148
  8. 8PostgreSQL29.7% · 44 of 148
  9. 9APIs28.4% · 42 of 148
  10. 10Docker28.4% · 42 of 148
  11. 11English26.4% · 39 of 148
  12. 12Ruby26.4% · 39 of 148
  13. 13observability20.9% · 31 of 148
  14. 14Java19.6% · 29 of 148
  15. 15Rails18.9% · 28 of 148
  16. 16CI/CD18.2% · 27 of 148
  17. 17REST17.6% · 26 of 148
  18. 18SQL16.9% · 25 of 148
  19. 19code review14.9% · 22 of 148
  20. 20SaaS14.2% · 21 of 148

Refreshed periodically from our live job-posting crawl — not a one-time snapshot.

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How this list is built

Every posting we crawl for Backend Developer roles runs through the same rule-based extractor SteadyCV's resume check uses — no LLM, no invented terms. A term only counts if it's confidently identified in the posting text itself: a named tool, an acronym, something inside the requirements section — not guessed from context. We rank by how many distinct postings mention a term, not how many times it's repeated in one, so a single wordy posting can't dominate the list.

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