5,100 backend engineer jobs at 2,074 companies in United States
Backend Engineer
United States or Greece
$90k-$150k/yr RemoteFull Time
Experience building and shipping backend systems, strong system design and backend fundamentals, proficiency with JavaScript/Node.js and NoSQL (MongoDB), ability to own projects and communicate across teams.
JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, EC2, S3, Coda, Google Meet, Coderbyte
Sr Backend Engineer
San Francisco or New York
$167k-$219k/yr HybridFull Time
4+ YOE4+ years backend or data engineering experience; strong SQL and data warehouse experience; proficiency in Python/Java/Scala; Elasticsearch/OpenSearch experience; experience building production data pipelines and backend services.
Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Python, Java, Scala, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, dbt, REST, gRPC, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Spark, Kafka, Flink, FAISS, ScaNN, pgvector, LightGBM, XGBoost, BM25, HNSW, kNN
Senior Backend Engineer
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
$160k-$185k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience; strong Python, FastAPI, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform; cloud architecture, API/backend development, security focus, mentorship and customer integration skills.
Python, FastAPI, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$140k-$185k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years building backend applications, strong Python skills, experience optimizing endpoints and database queries, automated testing, and collaborative engineering practices.
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, AmazonMQ, Terraform, AWS
Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 5+ years of backend engineering. Requires TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, IoT, Docker, CI/CD, observability, and cloud security experience.
TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Express.js, NestJS, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, REST, GraphQL, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS IoT Core, MQTT, ECS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, SQS, Linux, Docker, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, LangChain, Shopify, Alexa, Google Home/Nest, Siri, SSH, AWS
Backend Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco or North America
$200k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering; production ownership and on-call responsibility; authorized to work in the US or eligible remote regions.
Backend Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
OnsiteFull Time
2+ YOE2-5+ years backend engineering experience with distributed systems; production Go and Python; gRPC, REST/JSON, SQL/NoSQL, Kubernetes; US person status required due to ITAR.
Go, Python, gRPC, REST, JSON, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, S3, AWS, GCP, Azure
Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOE3-15 years backend engineering experience; proficiency in Python and FastAPI; experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL); cloud environment (AWS); containerization (Docker, Kubernetes); 5 days/week in office.
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, DynamoDB
Backend Engineer
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
RemoteFull Time
3+ YOERequires 3–5 years of backend engineering experience, Go, .NET, or Node.js proficiency, REST API experience, SQL and data modeling skills, cloud familiarity, Docker, CI/CD, and secure coding experience.
Azure, Go, .NET, Node.js, SQL, Docker, CI/CD, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, Event-driven architecture, Streaming architecture, GitHub Actions
Backend Engineer
Washington or Boston or Indianapolis
$101k-$138k/yr HybridFull Time
2+ YOE2-5 years backend software engineering experience; experience with REST APIs, streaming services, Node.js/TypeScript, Java, or Python; US citizenship and residence in the US; ability to work with CI/CD and automated testing.
Node.js, TypeScript, Java, Python, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, gRPC, Kafka, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom
Backend Engineer
United States
$100k-$125k/yr RemoteFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years backend engineering with production ownership; professional Python; LLM fluency across providers; database depth (MongoDB/Postgres); ML/vector search and recommendation experience; AWS/infrastructure comfort; observability and operational practices.
Python, MongoDB Atlas, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector, Chroma, FAISS, Claude, GPT, Gemini, AWS, EC2, Firecrawl, Replit, BeautifulSoup, arXiv, GitHub, Hugging Face, X, Cursor, Sentry, cron
Backend Engineer
Toronto or New York City
$140k-$240k/yr RemoteFull Time
3+ YOE3-5+ years building production backend systems; strong software engineering fundamentals; experience with APIs, event-driven architectures, SQL, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD, and AI/LLM capabilities.
Python, Go, C++, Rust, Java, Kotlin, Scala, TypeScript, C#, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, SQL
Senior Backend Engineer
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Strong backend engineering experience with complex production systems, distributed systems expertise, and proficiency in at least one modern backend language such as Go, Java, or Python.
Go, Java, Python, Node.js, gRPC, AWS, Terraform, C, C++
Backend Engineer
United States
$125k-$160k/yr RemoteFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years professional backend engineering experience; strong CS fundamentals; experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or microservices; Python 3, Flask, SQL/NoSQL, cloud platforms; bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent; ability to travel up to 15% annually.
Python 3, Flask, SQL, NoSQL, Google Cloud Platform
Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k-$350k/yr OnsiteFull Time
4+ YOE4-6 years designing, building, and deploying production backend systems; strong proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Go, TypeScript, Java); experience with APIs, distributed systems, relational databases, caching, async processing, data infrastructure, and cloud deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP).
Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP
Backend Engineer
New York City, New York, United States
$125k-$165k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Professional Python backend experience; familiarity with Flask, relational databases, background processing, and search systems; focus on reliability, performance, and secure design.
Python 3.11, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Redis, Docker, Celery
Backend Developer
United States
RemoteFull Time
Strong backend engineering experience in production systems; understanding of APIs, databases, authentication, queues, and integrations; experience with real customer services; strong debugging, reliability, security, and data quality mindset; based in United States; strong English communication.
Backend Engineer
United States
RemoteFull Time
4+ YOE4+ years building backend services or APIs in production; strong PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database experience; experience with AWS or another major cloud provider.
PostgreSQL, AWS, Python, Go
Backend Engineer
United States or Florida or Ontario
RemoteFull Time
3+ YOERequires 3–5 years of backend development experience, strong Python and Linux administration skills, MySQL expertise, Agile experience, and production troubleshooting ownership.
Python, Linux, MySQL, Perl, cPanel, AI
Backend Developer
United States
RemotePart Time
4+ YOE4+ years building and running backend systems in production; Elixir/Phoenix experience or strong functional/backend background; solid relational database skills; testing habit; experience with third-party APIs, Git, Docker, CI/CD; proactive self-starter.
Elixir, Erlang, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, Ecto, Oban, Guardian, Ueberauth, Phoenix LiveView, Braintree, AWS S3, Bamboo, Tesla, Cachex, Sentry, Credo, Dialyzer, ExUnit, ExMachina, Mox, StreamData, Docker, GitHub Actions, Heroku, Zoho, Microsoft Entra ID
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