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Payabli

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

PayabliMiami, FL

Senior backend engineer building scalable C#/.NET services for payment routing, connector management, and high-volume transaction processing in a fintech payments infrastructure platform. Requires 5+ years production backend experience, strong payments/fintech background, and technical leadership skills.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Rippling

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

RipplingSan Francisco, CA +1

Staff Backend Engineer building Rippling Query Language (RQL): a custom language with its own grammar, parser, query translator, distributed query processing engine, and distributed datastore. Work on distributed systems, big data technologies, data platforms, and custom programming languages that power analytics, workflows, and extensibility across Rippling.

189k – 315k
Hybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Aurelian

Staff Backend Engineer

AurelianSeattle, WA

Staff Backend Engineer building core voice AI and automation platform for 911 centers. Architect scalable systems, optimize realtime AI pipelines and audio latency, build analytics and integrations. Requires 6+ years software engineering experience with strong fundamentals.

200k – 300k
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Aurelian

Senior Backend Engineer

AurelianSeattle, WA

Senior Backend Engineer building core voice AI and automation platform for 911 centers. Architect scalable systems, optimize realtime AI pipelines and audio latency, build analytics and integrations. Requires 4+ years software engineering experience with strong fundamentals.

160k – 220k
On-site4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Okta

Staff Backend Engineer, Identity Threat Protection

OktaSan Francisco, CA

Staff Backend Engineer building and scaling Okta's AI-powered Identity Threat Protection platform. Lead architecture and development of cloud-native security products that perform real-time risk analysis and threat neutralization for enterprise authentication.

194k – 267k
Hybrid7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Vector Legal

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Vector LegalUnited States

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable distributed systems for freight and field service automation platform. Requires significant enterprise software development experience and distributed systems expertise; Java ecosystem preferred.

180k – 200k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Zus Health

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Zus HealthMassachusetts

Staff Software Engineer building and operating scalable data services and APIs on AWS for healthcare records processing and delivery at massive scale. Requires strong Go backend experience, cloud data warehouse knowledge, technical leadership, and interest in healthcare data challenges.

170k – 200k
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Mercor

Software Engineer, Backend

MercorSan Francisco, CA

Own and define the shared backend architecture, core services, data models, and APIs that power Mercor's rapidly scaling talent network and AI training products. Requires 8+ years backend engineering experience with a track record of organization-wide architectural ownership and complex migrations.

200k – 500k
On-site8+ YOEBackend Engineering
SimplePractice

Senior Engineer I

SimplePracticeSanta Monica, CA

Senior backend-focused engineer building the next generation practice management platform at SimplePractice. Requires 6+ years Ruby on Rails full lifecycle experience (or 4+ with Master's), JavaScript frameworks, AI/ML features, scalable web apps, and compliance knowledge (PCI/HIPAA).

215k – 215k
Hybrid6+ YOEBackend Engineering
Coinbase

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

CoinbaseUnited States

Senior technical leader defining engineering vision and architecture for Coinbase's Payments platform. Responsible for global payment rails, funds-flow systems, reliability, cost efficiency, and cross-team initiatives moving fiat into/out of crypto. Requires 10+ years large-scale distributed systems experience and deep payments/money-movement expertise.

254k – 299k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Scribe

Backend Engineer

ScribeSan Francisco, CA

Backend Engineer building and optimizing core document workflows (viewing, editing, embeds, exports) and greenfield projects in a Django monolith. Requires 3+ years backend experience, strong Python skills, performance optimization, and automated testing.

140k – 185k
Hybrid3+ YOEBackend Engineering
ezCater

Senior Software Engineer, AI-Native Platform

ezCaterBoston, MA

Senior Software Engineer building shared backend platform services, APIs, and workflows for ezCater's AI-native administrative, integration, and transaction systems. Requires 5+ years backend experience, strong fluency with AI tools across the full SDLC (planning to testing), Go (preferred) or similar language, and expertise in databases, distributed systems, and production ownership.

158k – 190k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
OpenAI

Software Engineer, Codex -Enterprise Controls

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Build and operate the enterprise control plane for OpenAI's Codex AI software engineer, focusing on security, governance, identity, access controls, encryption, and policy enforcement systems for large organizations.

230k – 385k
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
ZoomInfo

Software Engineer III

ZoomInfoBethesda, MD +1

Software Engineer III designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems with Java, Node.js/NestJS, Kafka, and cloud technologies (AWS/GCP). Requires Master's in CS + 2 years (or Bachelor's + 4 years) backend experience, microservices, databases, and REST APIs.

112k – 176k
Hybrid4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Crusoe

Senior Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry

CrusoeSan Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer owning Crusoe Cloud's managed container registry. Build, scale, and optimize core distributed services for AI training/inference workloads; drive performance, reliability, and architecture decisions in production.

170k – 205k
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Rippling

Staff Software Engineer

RipplingSeattle, WA

Staff Software Engineer anchoring Rippling's new Money Movement & Treasury ledger architecture in Seattle. Own design and implementation of deterministic, config-driven ledger systems, reconciliation frameworks, and technical leadership mentoring senior engineers while collaborating with Payments, Tax, and Accounting teams.

189k – 315k
Hybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Upstart

Software Engineer, Upstart Bank

UpstartUnited States

Software Engineer building scalable backend systems, services, and APIs for Upstart Bank, a modern AI-enabled national bank. Translate regulatory and business requirements into reliable software in a fintech environment; 4+ years backend/full-stack experience required.

14k – 187k
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Upstart

Software Engineer, Upstart Bank

UpstartUnited States

Software Engineer on the Upstart Bank team building scalable backend systems, services, and APIs in a regulated fintech environment. Requires 2+ years experience, proficiency in a modern language (Java, Python, Go, etc.), and strong fundamentals; fintech or regulated industry experience preferred.

131k – 154k
Remote2+ YOEBackend Engineering
Checkr

Senior Software Engineer

CheckrUnited States

Senior Software Engineer building scalable Python backend services and data pipelines for Checkr's AI-powered verification platform used by 140k+ companies. Requires strong Python expertise and experience solving complex technical problems.

Salary not listed
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Illumio

Senior Software Engineer

IllumioSunnyvale, CA

Develop containerized microservices in Go for a distributed multi-tenant cloud security platform processing real-time events and telemetry. Own full SDLC, design, mentoring, and operations for Illumio's Zero Trust segmentation products. Requires 4+ years building scalable distributed systems, Bachelor's in CS.

170k – 196k
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Cloudflare

Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

CloudflareNew York, NY +4

Build and scale the control plane for Cloudflare Workers, the serverless edge platform. Design distributed systems, high-traffic APIs, storage schemas, and own production reliability for services powering Pages and R2. Requires strong Go experience plus knowledge of observability, databases, and Kubernetes.

150k – 206k
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Cloudflare

Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

CloudflareNew York, NY +4

Lead architecture and strategy for Cloudflare's Workers control plane as the most senior engineer on the Deploy & Config team. Own distributed systems, high-scale APIs, reliability, and developer experience powering the serverless edge platform.

220k – 303k
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Attain

Lead Backend Engineer

AttainRedwood City, CA

Lead backend engineer owning Rust microservices that drive business logic, feature flags, and UX configuration for a data-driven mobile consumer app. Partners closely with mobile teams to define APIs and data models while growing into broader technical leadership.

Salary not listed
Hybrid6+ YOEBackend Engineering
Grafana Labs

Staff Backend Engineer

Grafana LabsUnited States

Staff Backend Engineer building an AI-native data intelligence and context system for Grafana to enable reliable enterprise data access for AI agents. Requires strong production backend experience, practical GenAI/LLM skills, cloud-native expertise, and comfort with ambiguity on an autonomous early-stage team.

175k – 210k
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Mirage

Software Engineer, Backend

MirageNew York, NY

Backend engineer building and owning end-to-end services, APIs, data pipelines, and ML infrastructure to power an AI-native video platform. Requires 2+ years experience shipping production systems, strong problem-solving, and comfort integrating large generative AI models.

175k – 275k
On-site2+ YOEBackend Engineering
Vannevar

Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

VannevarUnited States

Build and scale data collection and processing systems for mission-critical OSINT data to power Vannevar's defense AI. Requires 7+ years backend experience, Python/AWS/distributed systems proficiency, and U.S. Person status.

Salary not listed
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Alpaca

Senior Software Engineer

AlpacaUnited States

Senior Software Engineer building and scaling Alpaca's global payments and treasury platform using event-driven microservices. Requires 3+ years experience with Go, Kubernetes, GCP, distributed systems, and financial concepts like payment rails and double-entry accounting.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Cloudflare

Software Engineer

CloudflareUnited States

Build and extend Linux kernel and low-level networking systems on Cloudflare's egress path, working on packet processing, protocols like BGP, and massive-scale distributed systems that impact millions of customers. Requires systems programming experience and deep networking knowledge.

Salary not listed
HybridBackend Engineering
Firecrawl

Backend Infrastructure Engineer

FirecrawlSan Francisco, CA

Build and maintain scalable infrastructure for reliable web data collection at Firecrawl, focusing on proxy layers, success rates against adversarial sites, and high-throughput systems under spiky loads. Requires 3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering with strong ownership and reliability focus.

200k – 250k
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering
Firecrawl

Search Engineer

FirecrawlSan Francisco, CA

Build and own crawling, indexing, ranking, and retrieval systems for Firecrawl Search. Focus on making them fast, reliable, cheap at scale for LLM-driven use cases. Requires 3+ years building production backend or distributed systems.

190k – 260k
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering
Virta Health

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Client Group

Virta HealthUnited States

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable Golang microservices, automating data workflows, ensuring data accuracy for member/client systems, and exploring AI applications for validation and automation. Requires 5+ years backend experience with microservices, data architectures, and cloud platforms.

149k – 192k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Teleport

Senior Backend Engineer

TeleportUnited States

Product-oriented backend engineer building secure access controls, audit logging, session recording, and identity workflows for Teleport's AI Infrastructure Identity platform. Requires Go, Linux systems engineering, web fundamentals, and OAuth experience.

189k – 342k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Coalition Security

Senior Software Engineer, Underwriting

Coalition SecurityUnited States

Senior backend engineer building scalable Python/Go services for cyber risk underwriting, integrating with ML models, and leading projects with product and data teams. Requires strong backend API experience, cloud deployment, observability tools, and ownership at P4 level.

130k – 195k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Backend Engineer, Moderation Enforcement

RedditNew York, NY +3

Backend Engineer building moderation tools and features for Reddit's communities. Requires 2-5 years experience, proficiency in Go or Python, and API design skills.

164k – 230k
Remote2+ YOEBackend Engineering
Pindrop

Senior Software Engineer

PindropWashington, DC

Senior Software Engineer owning and evolving high-scale backend and data-layer platform services (IAM, Data Lake, reporting) that power all Pindrop products. Design, build, and operate distributed systems on AWS/GCP with strong focus on reliability, scalability, on-call, and mentorship.

130k – 170k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Fathom - AI Notetaker

Backend Engineer

Fathom - AI NotetakerUnited States

Backend Engineer building and scaling highly-available services for Fathom's AI meeting assistant. Requires strong Rails and Kubernetes/Go experience to improve reliability, efficiency, and customer experience at massive scale.

180k – 240k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Customer.io

Senior Software Engineer

Customer.ioUnited States

Build and own the distributed systems infrastructure powering Customer.io's marketing automation platform, handling billions of events daily with a focus on scale, reliability, and real-time processing in Go.

150k – 200k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Duolingo

Software Engineer II, Backend

DuolingoNew York, NY +1

Backend engineer building scalable infrastructure for Duolingo's short-form language lessons and ads systems. Requires CS bachelor's, strong algorithms/data structures skills, and experience in Java/Python/Kotlin.

153k – 207k
On-siteBackend Engineering
Navan

Staff Software Engineer, Flights

NavanNew York, NY

Staff Software Engineer building and scaling Navan's flagship next-generation flight platform. Lead technically while hands-on coding complex distributed systems in Java/Spring Boot/AWS; own features end-to-end with strong product focus. Requires 10+ years scaling high-growth systems.

130k – 288k
On-site10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Cloudflare

Senior Software Engineer, Durable Objects (DO)

CloudflareUnited States

Build and evolve Cloudflare's Durable Objects runtime, low-level routing, and storage systems for stateful serverless applications at global scale. Requires 5+ years systems software experience with deep expertise in Rust or C++ and large-scale distributed systems.

Salary not listed
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Cloudflare

Senior Software Engineer, Workers Runtime

CloudflareUnited States

Build and improve Cloudflare Workers Runtime: enhance performance, reliability, JavaScript and WebAssembly support for edge execution of customer code. Requires strong CS fundamentals, production ownership, and 2+ years C++/Rust experience.

Salary not listed
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Deepgram

Sr. Backend Engineer

DeepgramCalifornia

Backend engineer on the Engine Team building and optimizing Deepgram's core inference services for speech processing, audio transcoding, networking, scheduling, and high-performance computing. Requires 3+ years experience with Rust (or C/C++) and Python.

150k – 220k
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering
TheGuarantors

Software Engineer

TheGuarantorsNew York, NY

Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for third-party client integrations on a developer-facing platform. Requires 2+ years building backend services (Go preferred), strong API and system design skills, SQL experience, and cloud/IaC knowledge.

125k – 145k
Hybrid2+ YOEBackend Engineering
Mochi Health

Senior Backend Engineer

Mochi HealthSan Francisco, CA

Senior Backend Engineer building and owning core healthcare systems for subscription billing, clinical state machines, pharmacy integrations, and agentic AI workflows at Mochi Health. Requires 5-7+ years backend experience with complex domain logic, data modeling, infrastructure ownership (K8s/Terraform/AWS), and AI tool usage.

230k – 280k
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
OpenAI

Principal Software Engineer, Agent Harness Bridge

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Lead architecture and evolution of the Agent Harness Bridge at OpenAI, owning integrations between Codex harness, research infrastructure, and agent systems to enable reliable large-scale training of frontier models. Requires strong backend/infra experience, API and systems design expertise, and cross-functional leadership.

347k – 490k
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Plaid

Staff Software Engineer

PlaidSan Francisco, CA +1

Staff Software Engineer leading the architecture and delivery of Plaid's data governance platform. Design and implement scalable distributed systems for data deletion, usage restrictions, classification, and auditability while partnering with Legal, Privacy, and Security teams.

208k – 274k
Hybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering
CrewAI

Software Engineer, AI Runtime & Platform Services

CrewAISan Francisco, CA

Build and maintain CrewAI's Python enterprise runtime layer (FastAPI, Celery, Redis) that turns open-source agents into secure, observable production systems. Requires strong backend/platform engineering experience with distributed systems, auth, and observability.

Salary not listed
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Current

Senior Software Engineer

CurrentNew York, NY

Senior Backend Engineer building and scaling distributed services, real-time transaction systems, ML infrastructure, and data-intensive applications on GCP for a consumer fintech platform serving 6M+ members. Requires 5+ years backend experience (JVM/Java preferred), strong CS fundamentals, and cloud/database proficiency.

170k – 250k
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Crusoe

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Monitoring Service

CrusoeSan Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer building and owning Crusoe Cloud's customer-facing managed logs and observability services. Design scalable ingestion, query APIs, self-service onboarding, and integrations for AI workloads with strong focus on reliability, ease of use, and low-touch customer experience. Requires 5+ years experience with compiled languages and cloud systems.

175k – 210k
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Astronomer

Senior Software Engineer

AstronomerNew York, NY

Build and optimize backend services connecting Apache Airflow to scalable cloud infrastructure on Astronomer's Astro platform. Requires 5+ years SaaS experience, strong Python/Golang and Kubernetes skills, and on-call participation.

200k – 230k
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering