Backend Development Courses and Certifications

Board Infinity

Comprehensive Guide to Server-Side Logic and Development

Build server-side applications with Node.js and Express.js: set up SQL and MongoDB databases, run CRUD operations, and design REST APIs with authentication and authorization.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

An introduction to back-end web architecture and the server-side logic used to build web applications.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Hussein Nasser

Backend Engineering - Beginner

6 ratings

A beginner-friendly foundation in backend engineering, using examples to explain networking, databases, architecture, and performance.

• YouTube
• 13 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Python Backend Web Development Course (with Django)

5 ratings

This video is a full backend web development course with python. In the course, you will learn everything you need to know to start your web development journey with Python and Django.

• freeCodeCamp
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

EDUCBA

NodeJS Unleashed: Mastering Backend Development

53 ratings at Coursera

Build Node.js backends: use npm and the REPL, handle asynchronous code and errors, configure Express.js, add authentication, and create a real-time chat with Socket.io.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Backend Development and API Creation

44 ratings at Coursera

Build a MERN backend API: set up Express.js with MongoDB Atlas and Mongoose, secure routes with JWT authentication and middleware, and manage user profiles with GitHub data.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt Career Certificate

Ultimate Guide to FastAPI and Backend Development

25 ratings at Coursera

Build high-performance backends with FastAPI: design REST endpoints, run CRUD against SQL databases with Pydantic models, secure them with OAuth2 and JWT, and deploy via Docker and AWS.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Packt

Introduction to FastAPI and Backend Development Fundamentals

22 ratings at Coursera

Build REST APIs with FastAPI, creating path and query parameters, CRUD endpoints, Pydantic validation models, SQLModel database integration, and asynchronous sessions with PostgreSQL.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Back-End Engineer

Build production back ends with Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, APIs, authentication, security, testing, and deployment.

• Codecademy
• 105 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Board Infinity Career Certificate

Java Spring Boot Backend Development

5 ratings at Coursera

Build Java server-side applications: master Core Java, collections, lambdas and streams, then Spring dependency injection, Spring MVC, REST APIs, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Career Certificate

Create a Back-End App with JavaScript

Build back-end web APIs with JavaScript, Express.js, Node.js, and SQL, culminating in persistent CRUD API capstones.

• Codecademy
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Coursera

Backend Web Development with Go: Build an E-Manual Server

Build a Go web server that serves electronic manual pages as HTML over HTTP, using built-in packages and regular expressions to block malicious access.

• Coursera
• 4 hours 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Backend APIs & Microservices

Learn how to build backend web APIs using C#, implement RESTful services, connect applications to databases, and deploy scalable cloud-based microservices using best practices in modern backend develo

• edX
• 2 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

AI-Assisted Back-End Development

Build maintainable back-end projects with AI coding agents, using APIs, Node.js, databases, specifications, and TDD.

• Codecademy
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Intro to Java Web Development with Spark Course (How To)

145-minute Java course: Spark is a Micro-framework that allows you to spin up a web server fairly easily.

• Treehouse
• 2 hours 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available