Top Backend Developer Jobs

Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain backend software applications for Clover’s payments platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, translate requirements into technical specifications, lead code reviews, mentor junior developers, and participate in on-call support for backend incidents, API degradation, and microservice reliability.

Develop and maintain backend server applications supporting warehouse automation and logistics systems. Responsibilities include implementing business logic, integrations, database functionality, pathing and routing logic, automated tests, and DevOps processes. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, monitoring, error handling, maintainability, and production troubleshooting. Collaboration with software, web, automation, and operations teams is required, along with occasional on-site customer or project support in warehouse and industrial environments.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems and public-facing APIs. Collaborate with Product and Data Science teams, lead initiatives improving efficiency and system performance, and support customer satisfaction. Work may involve distributed systems, pricing engines, identity management, authentication, authorization, API versioning, deprecation, and rate limiting.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems for healthcare benefits, including enrollments, payments, payroll, benefits management, data models, fund flows, and partner integrations. Improve automation, monitoring, observability, reliability, and scalability while owning production systems. Collaborate with product, operations, and engineering teams to solve complex problems, manage edge cases, and provide technical direction.

Own technical direction and complex projects for Tempo, Grafana’s distributed tracing backend. Build and optimize ingestion, storage, query, metrics, and API components; improve performance, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, write design documentation, participate in on-call and incident response, mentor engineers, and contribute to the open-source Tempo project.

Design, build, and scale backend services, cloud infrastructure, databases, and service architectures. Own features end to end with a focus on customer value, performance, security, RBAC, scalable storage, and high-quality product delivery. Collaborate across disciplines as an early employee while learning new technologies and helping shape company culture.

Build and maintain backend services and foundational platform infrastructure for Streamline. Lead production migrations, architectural improvements, performance optimization, deployment, monitoring, and reliability efforts. The role requires end-to-end ownership of complex technical problems, strong backend and distributed-systems expertise, and close collaboration with a small engineering team to shape scalable platform architecture.

Build and maintain backend systems powering automated restaurants and robotic operations. Design reliable, distributed, real-time infrastructure connecting cloud services, on-site hardware, frontend applications, and internal systems. Develop event-driven architectures, databases, APIs, WebSocket integrations, and containerized applications while ensuring production reliability and zero data loss. Own features end to end, contribute to system design, mentor engineers, improve development processes, and collaborate with cross-functional partners.

Build and maintain backend systems for automated restaurants using Elixir and Phoenix. Develop order-processing, pacing, event-handling, APIs, WebSocket protocols, and distributed systems connecting cloud infrastructure with robotic hardware. Optimize PostgreSQL databases, implement business logic, support reliability and performance, and participate in on-call operations while collaborating with frontend, robotics, and QA teams.

Designs and develops large-scale streaming data systems, scalable infrastructure, data pipelines, and data models for Coupang’s seller marketplace. Owns projects from architecture through delivery, improves platform scalability and reliability, contributes to shared engineering standards, and provides technical leadership across teams. The role requires backend software expertise, distributed systems experience, and proficiency with Java, Spring, AWS, and data technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, and NoSQL.

Build and operate Java-based distributed microservices supporting trade clearing, margin, settlement, reconciliation, and related financial workflows. Responsibilities include designing services, optimizing PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity, creating tests and observability, defining service-level objectives, contributing to architecture decisions, and participating in production on-call support. The role requires full software lifecycle ownership and collaboration with nontechnical partners in a regulated clearinghouse environment.

Build and operate Java microservices supporting trade clearing, margin, settlement, reconciliation, and financial data integrity. Responsibilities include PostgreSQL optimization, distributed systems development, testing, observability, SLOs, production support, architecture documentation, and on-call ownership. The role collaborates with nontechnical partners and uses technologies including Kubernetes, Kafka, Linux, GitHub Actions, Helm, ArgoCD, and PostgreSQL.

Build and operate Java microservices supporting clearing workflows such as trade processing, margin, and settlement. Responsibilities include optimizing PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity and reconciliation, implementing observability and service-level objectives, contributing to architecture documentation, testing, production support, and on-call operations. The role requires distributed-systems experience, strong Java skills, and collaboration with nontechnical partners.

Lead architecture and implementation of highly available distributed backend systems handling massive scale and sub-50ms latency. Set organization-wide technical strategy, drive microservices and API evolution, build developer platforms and tools, improve resiliency and observability, reduce technical debt, and partner with senior product, data, operations, and business leaders.

Develop backend services, REST APIs, integrations, data processing workflows, and geospatial solutions for defense and intelligence missions. Build and maintain software using Python, Java, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, ArcGIS Enterprise, and cloud platforms. Design secure service architectures, support distributed systems, and contribute to testing, monitoring, observability, and DevSecOps practices while solving complex customer technical problems.

Develop backend services, REST APIs, integrations, data-processing workflows, and geospatial capabilities for mission-critical defense and intelligence solutions. Work with Python, Java, Node.js, ArcGIS Enterprise, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and secure service architectures. Responsibilities include API design, enterprise integration, geoprocessing automation, distributed-service testing, monitoring, observability, and reliability. The role requires active or recently active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and supports relocation to Redlands, California.

Develop backend services, REST APIs, integrations, and data-processing workflows for mission-critical geospatial solutions. Build and maintain Python, Java, and Node.js services; integrate ArcGIS Enterprise; use Docker and Kubernetes; and support cloud environments, secure architectures, testing, monitoring, and observability. The role requires collaboration with Defense and Intelligence customers and an active or recently active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Designs, builds, and scales backend services and integrations for payments, billing, identity, and partner connectivity. Sets technical vision and architecture for distributed systems, leads cross-team delivery, manages production rollouts, builds fault-tolerant services and data pipelines, and mentors engineers. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver frequent, reliable improvements for Flex’s rent payment platform.

Design, build, and scale backend services and integrations for payment, billing, identity, and partner systems. Own API scoping, design, implementation, deployment, and production operations with minimal oversight. Build fault-tolerant systems, data pipelines, and scalable architectures while collaborating with product, design, engineering, and external partners. Contribute to reliability monitoring, observability, automation, technical standards, and mentoring in a distributed team.

Build and launch user-facing backend features from inception through experimentation and ongoing improvement. Responsibilities include collaborating with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers; architecting scalable REST APIs; developing distributed CRUD systems using SQL and NoSQL technologies; writing maintainable, testable code; and mentoring or learning from other engineers.

Own and lead backend products from architecture through production operation. Design high-traffic APIs and microservices, improve application and database performance, build real-time distributed data services, and enhance reliability, observability, automation, Kubernetes workloads, and cloud efficiency. Review code, establish engineering standards, coordinate dependencies, communicate tradeoffs, and drive ambiguous technical initiatives through rollout.

Staff Backend Engineer responsible for designing, operating, and scaling distributed systems supporting audio ingestion, media processing, real-time streams, transcription, LLM, and clinical documentation workflows. The role leads technical direction, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, infrastructure evolution, and engineer mentorship. Candidates need extensive backend or infrastructure experience, strong Python or modern backend language skills, distributed systems expertise, and technical leadership. Healthcare, audio, streaming, regulated environments, and workflow orchestration experience are valued.

Design and build backend services and distributed systems for a customer-facing no-code product. Improve query performance across large data warehouses, develop analytics and experimentation capabilities, explore real-time computation and data syncing, and apply generative AI to user workflows. The role also involves writing product specifications, collaborating directly with users, making long-term architecture decisions, and ensuring services remain robust, maintainable, and scalable.

Build and scale low-latency, highly available distributed systems powering Turo’s Search Platform. Develop backend services, APIs, tools, and utilities; write, test, review, and ship maintainable code; improve architecture; and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver product features. The role requires search engine expertise, cloud-native architecture experience, strong programming skills, and knowledge of distributed systems and databases.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend services, RESTful APIs, data models, integrations, and AWS-based systems for K-12 learning solutions. Responsibilities include architecture improvements, performance and reliability optimization, production troubleshooting, Git-based development, CI/CD support, and collaboration with engineering, QA, frontend, and product teams.