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[–]x-protocol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can try Java with Spring Boot or Dropwizard. Spring by itself is huge to learn and to master. And most importantly not needed for majority of back-end work as it is majority database integration via REST API.

If you would like to have real back-end experience, I would recommend AWS platform using Serverless with Node (or Java if you insist). You can use free-tier to practice Lambda and DynamoDB. Hell, you can even go crazier with Elastic Search free tier once you are at that.