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Latest remote Backend Engineering jobs

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hex

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

HexNew York, NY

Staff backend engineer on Hex's Compute team, owning high-performance execution architecture for notebooks and large-scale data warehouse queries. Requires 10+ years experience in systems design, parallel execution, caching, performance optimization, and data systems.

221k – 349k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Wowza Media Systems

Junior Java Engineer

Wowza Media SystemsUnited States

Senior Java engineer building and optimizing live/on-demand video transcoding, packaging, and delivery pipelines in Wowza Streaming Engine. Requires 8+ years Java experience with deep concurrency/JVM knowledge plus 5+ years in video streaming codecs and protocols.

Salary not listed
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Wowza Media Systems

Senior Java Engineer

Wowza Media SystemsUnited States

Senior Java Engineer building and optimizing live/on-demand video transcoding, packaging, and delivery pipelines in Wowza Streaming Engine. Requires 8+ years Java experience with deep JVM and concurrency expertise plus 5+ years in video streaming workflows and codecs.

175k – 200k
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Staff Software Engineer, DevPlatform

RedditUnited States

Staff Backend Engineer building a highly available, low-latency developer platform at Reddit scale. Lead infrastructure and Storage-as-a-Service development, mentor engineers, and contribute across the full development lifecycle in a fully remote environment. Requires 7+ years backend/infra experience.

217k – 303k
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Offchain Labs

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Offchain LabsUnited States

Build and operate the secure, non-custodial KMS backend for ZeroDev embedded wallets on the Developer Platform team. Own Go services for key recovery, TEEs, authentication, and signing integration in a security-critical, high-review environment.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Cribl

Sr. Software Engineer

CriblUnited States

Senior Software Engineer building a scalable customer-facing metric store for high-volume time-series telemetry data at Cribl. Requires strong distributed systems and backend experience (Node.js/TypeScript preferred) to design ingestion, storage, query engines, and observability infrastructure.

165k – 200k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Attentive

Senior Software Engineer, Streaming

AttentiveNew York, NY +1

Senior Software Engineer on the Streaming team responsible for architecting and evolving high-throughput, low-latency event streaming platforms that power real-time messaging and personalization at scale. Requires 5+ years building distributed streaming systems with deep expertise in Kafka/Flink and Java/Spring Boot.

150k – 210k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Spotify

Senior Backend Engineer

SpotifyNew York, NY

Senior Backend Engineer building and operating high-scale Java (and Scala) services for Spotify's real-time ad auction, ranking, scoring, and filtering that process millions of decisions per second. Requires 4+ years backend experience, low-latency distributed systems expertise, and strong system design, algorithms, and data-driven iteration skills.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Supabase

Control Plane Engineer

SupabaseUnited States

Design, implement, and maintain internal and public-facing APIs for Supabase products including management APIs and OAuth. Requires 5+ years backend API development with strong TypeScript/Node.js and Nest.js experience, plus PostgreSQL knowledge.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Senior Backend Engineer, IAM

RedditUnited States

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable IAM systems for authentication, authorization, and identity at Reddit. Requires 5+ years backend experience with 2+ years in security-sensitive domains, strong knowledge of identity protocols, and mentoring skills.

191k – 267k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Grafana Labs

Staff Backend Engineer

Grafana LabsUnited States

Staff Backend Engineer leading architecture, reliability, and delivery of Adaptive Telemetry systems (metrics, logs, traces, profiles) for Grafana Cloud databases. Requires proven large-scale distributed systems experience, strong systems design, cloud-native expertise, and comfort with AI tools.

175k – 210k
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Tailscale

Billing Engineer

TailscaleUnited States

Build and maintain core billing infrastructure at Tailscale, including integrations with Stripe/Metronome, metering and pricing logic for usage-based billing, and ownership of the full product lifecycle for financial systems. Requires backend engineering experience focused on payments or billing, strong Go skills, and knowledge of distributed systems.

143k – 179k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Censys

Staff Backend Engineer, Exposure Management

CensysAnn Arbor, MI

Tech lead for Exposure Management team migrating legacy Attack Surface Management product to next-gen platform. Build scalable real-time streaming services on massive datasets using Golang; own end-to-end backend services, drive architecture, mentor team, and integrate AI/LLMs. Requires 10+ years software engineering and 5+ years Golang.

172k – 233k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Censys

Senior Backend Engineer, SOC & Threat Hunting

CensysAnn Arbor, MI

Senior backend engineer building resilient APIs and scalable microservices for Censys' Adversary Investigation module to deliver threat intelligence tools for SOC analysts and threat hunters. Requires 5+ years building distributed apps, 2+ years with Go microservices, and cloud experience.

151k – 206k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Censys

Software Engineer

CensysAnn Arbor, MI

Software engineer building backend services, resilient APIs, and scalable microservices for Censys' Adversary Investigation and threat hunting tools in the SaaS platform. Requires 2-4 years experience, preferably with Go and cloud infrastructure.

125k – 177k
Remote2+ YOEBackend Engineering
Censys

Software Engineer , Core Services

CensysAnn Arbor, MI

Build and extend core platform services for authentication, authorization, RBAC, identity, and account management at Censys. Requires 2-4 years experience with strong Go skills and experience shipping backend services in cloud environments.

125k – 177k
Remote2+ YOEBackend Engineering
Mercury

Senior Backend Engineer

MercurySan Francisco, CA +2

Senior backend engineer building lovable fintech and banking products at Mercury. Requires 3-7 years backend experience, Haskell/SQL proficiency, product ownership, architectural decision-making, and enthusiasm for AI tools.

167k – 208k
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering
Pinecone

Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine

PineconeUnited States

Build scalable search and retrieval infrastructure for Pinecone's vector database and knowledge engine, focusing on semantic/hybrid search, indexing pipelines, RAG patterns, and LLM-powered agentic systems. Requires 6+ years building large-scale, low-latency backend systems with strong distributed systems and AI retrieval expertise.

190k – 270k
Remote6+ YOEBackend Engineering
Upstart

Senior Software Engineer

UpstartUnited States

Senior Software Engineer building scalable, event-driven platforms for Upstart's Lending Platform to automate accounting, capital risk, and financial operations using high-volume data processing and AI tools. Requires 4+ years experience with distributed systems in AWS.

153k – 231k
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Stripe

Backend Engineer, Developer SDKs

StripeUnited States

Backend Engineer building and maintaining Stripe's official SDKs and code generation framework across multiple languages with a focus on Golang and developer experience. Requires 6+ years engineering experience including 3+ years with Golang, passion for API design, and interest in multiple languages.

Salary not listed
Remote6+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Staff Software Engineer, Storage

RedditUnited States

Senior Software Engineer on Reddit's Storage Infra team, building and scaling large-scale distributed storage and caching systems (100s of millions of queries/sec, 100s of TBs) that power ML/AI/Search and core product experiences with high availability. Requires 5+ years internet-scale software experience and distributed systems expertise.

217k – 304k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Coalition Security

Senior Software Engineer

Coalition SecurityUnited States

Senior Software Engineer owning end-to-end design and implementation of a high-scale scanning engine in Python and Go. Requires strong backend/systems experience, distributed systems expertise, and scanning engine background.

150k – 215k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Fingerprint

Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs

FingerprintUnited States

Build and scale high-performance backend systems and Core APIs for real-time fraud detection and data processing at Fingerprint. Requires 5+ years backend experience with strong Go and/or Node.js skills, plus expertise in scalable microservices, databases, and performance optimization.

150k – 200k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Pinterest

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Configuration & Coordination

PinterestSan Francisco, CA

Senior Staff Software Engineer owning the technical vision, architecture, and strategy for Pinterest's mission-critical configuration and coordination infrastructure. Requires 10+ years in high-scale distributed systems, control-plane expertise, and experience driving cross-functional alignment for safe, scalable rollouts.

209k – 429k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

CoinbaseUnited States

Staff Backend Engineer owning core systems for order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution on Coinbase's prediction markets platform. Requires 8+ years building high-availability, low-latency distributed financial systems.

218k – 257k
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

CoinbaseUnited States

Senior backend engineer owning end-to-end services for prediction markets: market creation, real-time trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Requires 5+ years building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems in regulated environments.

186k – 219k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
PrizePicks

Senior Software Engineer

PrizePicksUnited States

Senior Go engineer designing and owning scalable microservices for real-time contest and checkout systems. Requires 5-8 years experience building production Go services and distributed systems.

175k – 185k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Weave

Backend Engineer

WeaveLehi, UT

Backend engineer on the Data Platform team building scalable, resilient distributed services for large-scale data integration, event processing, and platform extensions. Requires 3+ years backend experience and expertise with distributed systems, messaging, and NoSQL technologies.

Salary not listed
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering
Upstart

Software Engineer, Verifications Platform

UpstartUnited States

Design and build backend services powering automated verification workflows, financial data integrations, and approval decisioning for lending products. Requires 3+ years building distributed systems in Kotlin or Java.

142k – 197k
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering
Square

Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

SquareNew York, NY

Senior engineer building and operating core banking platform features, public APIs, and financial tooling on AWS with Kotlin. Requires 5+ years experience and a bachelor's degree.

185k – 327k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering