Top Backend Developer Jobs

Build and scale backend services connecting 10 million users with an AI model fleet. Responsibilities include routing, conversation state management, and queuing while maintaining high volume, low latency, and low error rates. The role offers end-to-end ownership in a fast-moving, in-person Palo Alto engineering team.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable Java and Spring Boot services for a multi-tenant ecommerce SaaS platform. Build REST APIs, optimize MySQL data access, operate AWS workloads, and support CI/CD, observability, testing, and production troubleshooting. Contribute to architecture and technical decisions, mentor engineers, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and help maintain PCI DSS compliance.

Develop backend services supporting NASA’s Extensible Traffic Management Client and integrated airspace management. Build enterprise applications using Java and/or JavaScript/TypeScript, microservices, event-driven architectures, containers, message brokers, and authorization protocols. Participate in Agile development, code reviews, frequent deployments, and testing. The role requires collaboration, documentation, and reliable software development, with opportunities to work with cloud services, APIs, and relational and NoSQL databases.

Develop, scale, and maintain core backend APIs within a TypeScript/NestJS monolith for supply chain modules (OMS, WMS, MES). Implement secure payment and logistics integrations, caching with Redis, async/event-driven workflows, and observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki). Support AI agent orchestration and ensure transactional integrity using PostgreSQL.

Own core backend services powering reproducible, traceable, and auditable financial computations. Design configuration-driven computation systems, optimize SQL and data models, ensure reliability and tenant isolation, and establish strong testing and correctness controls. Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, engineering standards, and mentorship while partnering with data, AI, and product teams. The role supports multi-tenant and customer-hosted deployments across major cloud platforms.

Build reusable backend platforms and developer-facing tooling for performance testing, analysis, reporting, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Enable service teams to independently incorporate performance testing into development and CI workflows through self-service capabilities, documentation, templates, diagnostics, and guidance. Partner with engineering teams, influence adoption, generalize solutions, and provide expertise on complex performance challenges.

Develop and scale RESTful backend services and shared platform tooling using Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, AWS, and Kubernetes. Design resilient distributed systems, implement secure coding practices, and maintain automated testing. Collaborate with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional teams while mentoring engineers and contributing to shared infrastructure. The hybrid role requires three in-office days weekly in Culver City or San Francisco.

Develop and scale resilient backend services and shared platform tooling using Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, AWS, and Kubernetes. Design distributed systems, implement REST APIs, improve security and reliability, apply automated testing, and collaborate with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams. The role also includes mentoring teams, contributing to cloud infrastructure, and delivering scalable solutions for financial services platforms.

Lead the design and development of scalable claims and payment processing systems. Own complex technical projects, establish engineering standards, mentor teams, improve reliability, define SLOs, reduce failure domains, and influence technical and product roadmaps across multiple teams.

Build backend services, ontology models, retrieval and evaluation systems, and production LLM workflows for legal drafting and review. Own features end to end across PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, graph databases, and AWS, while improving performance and scale. Work directly with law firm customers alongside senior forward deployed engineers, contribute to TypeScript and React interfaces, and translate vague customer problems into data models, retrieval improvements, or software fixes.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Develop and operate reliable, scalable cloud-native backend microservices for Webex Signaling. Responsibilities include technical design, Java and Spring development, Kubernetes deployment, DevOps, telemetry, observability, production support, and continuous delivery. The engineer will also use and validate AI-assisted development tools across the software lifecycle while ensuring code quality, security, privacy, performance, and maintainability.

Architect and build highly reliable, scalable backend systems powering Uber One memberships across UberEats and UberX. The role involves platform evolution, microservices and API design, technical strategy, cross-functional collaboration, architectural decision-making, production deployment, monitoring, incident management, and engineering excellence. The engineer will lead complex technical initiatives and develop systems serving millions of global users.

Design, build, and operate high-scale backend systems and APIs, primarily in Go. Set technical direction, solve complex distributed-systems problems, improve production reliability and performance, lead incident response, and ensure correctness in financially sensitive systems. Partner across teams, mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and establish engineering standards.

Build and operate backend services, APIs, and data pipelines for autonomous drone delivery operations. Process flight, vehicle, and telemetry data; deploy, monitor, debug, and support production systems; and collaborate with software, operations, product, and safety teams in a safety-critical environment.

Lead the design, development, testing, maintenance, configuration, and customization of Guidewire Cloud applications. Develop Java/Gosu, React, and .NET solutions, integrations, business rules, workflows, data models, and SQL databases. Support upgrades, security, performance, documentation, code reviews, and Agile delivery. Provide technical leadership, stakeholder coordination, developer training, mentorship, and guidance on software architecture, coding standards, and problem solving.

Leads Ignition SCADA back-end architecture, gateway redundancy, SQL databases, tag historians, PLC and OPC connectivity, and enterprise integrations. Designs scalable interfaces with LIMS, ERP, and QMS systems; establishes security, data integrity, and integration standards. Manages projects, reviews technical deliverables, supports commissioning, mentors engineers, and provides lifecycle support for deployed systems. Requires significant travel locally and substantial on-site presence.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.

Design, build, and optimize resilient backend services processing extremely high volumes of events. Own key system domains, develop product features, participate in code reviews and design discussions, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and use AI-assisted tools to improve development and distributed-system reliability. The role requires backend development, event-driven architecture, audit-trail analysis, strong communication, and large-scale web-service experience.

Build, maintain, and scale e-commerce backend services using Python and Django. Develop REST APIs and features for catalogs, inventory, carts, checkout, orders, payments, and accounts. Integrate third-party services, optimize databases and performance, implement security controls, write tested code, resolve production issues, and collaborate on architecture, planning, reviews, deployment, and CI/CD.

Lead backend and infrastructure development for a high-traffic consumer web platform. Build feature infrastructure, recommendation and model-serving pipelines, and reliable production systems. Own monitoring, logging, incident response, API performance, data access, caching, asynchronous processing, live connections, abuse prevention, architecture, capacity planning, deployment, observability, and recovery decisions on a small, high-ownership team.

Design and implement scalable backend services for MoneyGram’s core transaction and API platforms. Responsibilities include architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, integrations, cloud development, CI/CD automation, testing, deployment, operational excellence, and engineering standards. The role collaborates with product, engineering, and QA teams, mentors junior engineers, leads complex technical solutions, and influences technical direction in an agile environment.

Design and build scalable financial data pipelines, data-serving platforms, and AI-enabling frameworks. Ensure data integrity and quality across sources, optimize query performance, troubleshoot data issues, and promote AI-assisted software development. The role requires expertise in Python or Java, databases, warehouses, ETL, batch processing, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes, with preferred experience in Snowflake, Airflow, and dbt.

Design and build scalable data pipelines, data-serving platforms, and AI foundations for financial data. Ensure data integrity and quality, optimize queries, troubleshoot data issues, and promote AI-assisted software development. The role requires strong software engineering, batch processing, cloud infrastructure, database, and data warehouse experience, along with effective communication and creative problem-solving.

Design, build, optimize, and maintain Bevi’s Java and Kotlin backend platform for connected beverage machines. Develop APIs and telemetry services, manage cloud deployments, monitor system health, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve scalability and reliability. Collaborate with product and hardware teams, guide architecture, review code, promote testing practices, mentor engineers, manage third-party integrations, and participate in Agile/Scrum development.