Top Backend Developer Jobs

Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure backend systems and APIs for an AI-powered engine inspection platform. Collaborate with engineering, product, and AI teams to optimize performance, improve reliability, shape tech stack, contribute to CI/CD, monitoring, and developer tooling, and resolve architectural risks to deliver high-quality SaaS solutions.

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services and distributed systems for GM Commercial Software. Builds customer-facing capabilities, improves code quality and engineering efficiency, contributes to architecture discussions, collaborates across product and engineering teams, explores new technologies, and mentors early-career engineers.

Leads backend software engineering for Morgan Money, developing secure, high-quality Java production code for liquidity trading platforms. Collaborates directly with investment teams, traders, and portfolio managers; guides technical decisions; supports agile delivery and frequent production releases; mentors peers and provides technical direction to teams, contractors, and vendors. The role emphasizes Java, Spring, messaging and streaming technologies, testing, CI/CD, resiliency, security, and software development lifecycle practices, with preferred exposure to trading systems, FIX, blockchain, cloud, and Python.

Develop backend infrastructure, data pipelines, web services, and fleet-management systems for autonomous industrial robots. Responsibilities include designing data stores for video and training data, supporting machine-learning compute clusters, maintaining customer-facing services, and diagnosing network issues. The role partners with machine learning, robot control, and DevOps teams and requires Python, distributed systems, databases, Linux, networking, and scalable data-processing experience.

Build and own backend services and core platform features while contributing to product management, UX, user research, and customer onboarding. Research and ship applied AI capabilities, reduce technical debt, and work directly with senior leadership on product direction. The role requires strong ownership, product judgment, customer engagement, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced healthcare technology startup.

Develop and maintain scalable backend services for an AI platform, integrate and optimize LLM and generative AI technologies, build APIs on Google Cloud, and improve performance and reliability for real-time customer engagement workflows. Collaborate with marketing, sales, and product teams while proposing innovative backend and AI solutions in a fast-paced startup environment.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise backend applications using Java, Spring, AWS, and Terraform. Designs cloud-native microservices, REST and SOAP services, and infrastructure as code; guides architecture and development best practices; collaborates with stakeholders; reviews code; mentors engineers; and resolves complex production issues. The role is hybrid in Cincinnati, Ohio, with three days per week onsite and requires 9+ years of Java/J2EE experience.

Lead the architecture, design, development, and deployment of scalable backend systems for Scout Motors’ digital products. Build identity, access, and profile services supporting web, mobile, and vehicle applications; collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders; ensure reliability, testing, documentation, and 24/7 service ownership. Mentor engineers, evaluate emerging technologies, and deliver complex technical initiatives in a collaborative environment.

Build and review end-to-end product features while leading backend and platform architecture. Own data models, PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, third-party integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring, security, privacy, and outage response. Collaborate across product, design, marketing, and data teams, and help develop AI-assisted coding workflows. This individual contributor role requires strong backend depth, startup production ownership, technical communication, and a willingness to solve varied problems across web and mobile surfaces.

Build and operate scalable backend and distributed systems for Baseten’s AI inference platform. Responsibilities include telemetry pipelines, observability platforms, billing and commercialization systems, partnership integrations, developer tooling, CI/CD, AI agent infrastructure, testing strategy, reliability improvements, and cross-team technical leadership. The role also involves mentoring engineers, improving developer experience, and partnering across infrastructure, model performance, and product teams.

Design, build, and operate a cloud-native, real-time, highly available backend platform for data-center and grid integrations. Implement time-series storage, streaming/event processing, APIs, CI/CD, containerized deployments, and production observability while ensuring safe continuous deployment and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Build and operate reliable backend systems for complex government and enterprise data integrations. Responsibilities include designing bidirectional integrations, asynchronous workflows, retries, idempotency, observability, operational automation, debugging production systems, and creating reusable reliability patterns. The role involves TypeScript and Node.js development, database work, partner collaboration, mentoring, and improving support efficiency in a fully remote environment.

Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain backend software applications for merchant onboarding and client implementation platforms. Lead technical design and implementation, collaborate with cross-functional teams, improve existing codebases, conduct peer reviews, and mentor junior developers. The role also involves automating application operations and delivering reliable, high-performance solutions aligned with business and client needs.

Own and maintain the WordPress platform end-to-end: hosting, security, performance, technical SEO, tracking (GA4/GTM), integrations (HubSpot/APIs), backups, and documentation. Establish environments, deployment workflows, monitoring, and runbooks while partnering with front-end and marketing teams to ensure reliable, high-performing, and compliant site operations.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems for Vay’s real-time mobility platform. Own solutions end to end, shape architecture, solve distributed-systems challenges, and improve reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability. Collaborate with infrastructure, embedded software, mobile, and product teams to connect vehicles, remote drivers, customers, and operational systems.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable backend services and software products for GM Commercial Services. Design reliable APIs and systems, solve complex business and technical problems, improve engineering practices, and build high-value products. Collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, operations, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in Java, Kotlin, or Python; SQL and NoSQL databases; cloud platforms; Databricks; and modern web technologies.

Build and scale secure, reliable backend services and web applications for a fintech wealth management platform. Responsibilities include identity and access management, AWS infrastructure, database optimization, API and distributed-systems hardening, production reliability, observability, incident response, and security remediation. The role independently delivers solutions from design through production, mentors engineers, and partners with security leadership. This is a hybrid position requiring three office days weekly in San Francisco.

Build and scale secure, reliable backend services and web applications. Develop identity and access management features, improve AWS infrastructure and database performance, harden APIs and distributed systems, and contribute to incident response and observability. Own engineering problems from design through production, partner with security teams on remediation, mentor engineers, and solve complex workflow and scalability challenges.

Build scalable backend services and infrastructure for mobile and web products. Design secure RESTful APIs, architect high-performance systems, apply engineering best practices, estimate and track Agile tasks, mentor teammates, collaborate with clients and engineers, and take ownership of technical solutions.

Design, build, test, and maintain high-volume, low-latency backend applications. Lead software development across the full lifecycle, analyze requirements, create technical designs and documentation, resolve technical issues, propose infrastructure improvements, and support architectural reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives while applying modern development practices and cloud technologies.

Develops, maintains, and enhances enterprise software applications in Linux environments using Java and Python. Responsibilities include designing microservices and service-oriented architectures, deploying containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes, integrating MongoDB or MySQL databases, debugging and optimizing software, testing, and documenting development activities with Jira and Confluence. The role requires collaboration with systems engineers and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Develop backend applications and microservices for a large-scale deposits platform. Build and maintain Java and Spring Boot services, implement distributed processing with Kafka, and deploy within cloud environments such as AWS or GCP. Participate in coding interviews requiring screen sharing, work a five-day schedule, provide on-call support every eight weeks, and assist with occasional evening production deployments.

Build and operate backend services, APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows supporting accounting, reconciliation, and financial data synchronization. Ensure transaction data is accurate, traceable, reliable, and resilient across systems. Own complex projects from design through production, collaborate with product and engineering partners, investigate cross-service issues, and improve system reliability. Contribute through design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and thoughtful technical decision-making.

Build and expand Uber’s backend fares platform, including framework infrastructure for customizable fare configurations across businesses and markets. Develop highly available, scalable distributed systems and microservices, collaborate with engineering, product, operations, and data science teams, contribute to product launches affecting millions of customers, and participate in on-call rotations. The role primarily uses Go and Python and values payments or fintech engineering experience.

Design, develop, and maintain large-scale, low-latency backend applications using Java, Python, microservices, REST APIs, AWS, and databases. Build CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and deployment processes; integrate security, encryption, PCI/PII data protection, and code-quality controls. Collaborate with product management, architects, and internal teams on requirements, design, estimates, documentation, and delivery of high-quality financial technology solutions.