Top Backend Developer Jobs

Backend Software Engineers design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services, optimize applications, and build robust APIs while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve user workflows.

Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build scalable software solutions, focusing on data systems and infrastructure while collaborating with teams. Responsibilities include building performant systems, designing APIs, and automating deployment for distributed systems.

Backend Software Engineers at Palantir develop scalable backend services, design APIs, and optimize applications for performance, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Backend Software Engineers at Palantir will architect and maintain scalable backend services, develop APIs, and optimize applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve workflows and user experience.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you'll lead the architecture and development of scalable backend services, ensuring high performance and coding standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user workflows and build robust APIs.

The Backend Software Engineer will build scalable systems and APIs, work with various programming languages, and enhance the performance of large-scale data systems at Palantir.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Design, build, operate, and own scalable backend services and APIs for internal and customer-facing applications. Improve performance, observability, security, and reliability; lead architecture and API standards; troubleshoot production issues; support CI/CD and automation; mentor engineers and drive backend best practices across teams.

Lead a team and portfolio of backend-focused microservice projects, design cloud-based solutions, mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and build scalable systems using languages like Java, Python, Go, and container/orchestration and cloud technologies.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement backend services, manage architectural decisions, and drive improvements in data quality, performance, and reliability, while collaborating across teams to enhance client and provider interactions in mental healthcare.

Design, build, and maintain fault-tolerant backend services in Go for a ledger-native fintech platform. Own distributed system architecture, data modeling, concurrency, resiliency, observability, and testing. Collaborate with product, design, and operations to deliver performant, reliable features in a regulated environment.

Lead architecture, design, and development of Java/Spring back-end services and shared frameworks. Mentor agile teams, produce secure high-quality code, optimize performance, implement observability, and drive adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices and SDLC automation.

Lead backend engineer responsible for designing, developing, and operating secure, scalable Java/Spring Boot services using Kafka and NoSQL stores; drive architecture reviews, operational stability, AI-assisted engineering adoption, and cross-team technical leadership.

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, multi-cloud fintech products. Design scalable, reliable, and secure systems using domain modeling. Build testable, operable code, resolve production incidents, optimize performance and data access, and enable zero-downtime releases. Mentor teammates, drive technical direction, and continuously modernize technologies and patterns.

Lead software engineer responsible for designing, developing, and delivering secure, scalable Java/Spring Boot/React applications. Drives CI/CD, automation, operational stability, vendor evaluations, and engineering communities of practice.

Lead backend engineering efforts on an agile team: design, develop, test, and operate secure, resilient Java-based systems. Provide technical guidance, promote enterprise SDLC and AI-assisted development practices, drive automation/CI-CD, manage containerized deployments with Kubernetes, and influence engineering decisions across teams.

Lead backend engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure microservices for equities broker-dealer and prime finance platforms. Integrate AI/ML and GenAI (LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector DBs) into production, drive architecture decisions, ensure SDLC and operational stability, mentor teams on responsible AI use, and collaborate with product and operations to deliver high-volume, low-latency financial systems.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Design and deliver LLM-powered, agentic AI systems to automate customer support and compliance. Build scalable, secure backend infrastructure in Python and Go, integrate third-party models/APIs, implement grounding and guardrails, and measure performance. Lead end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and participate in on-call and incident response to improve resolution times and reduce operational costs.

Lead a team and portfolio to build distributed microservices and full-stack systems addressing regulatory needs. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and deliver cloud-native solutions using Java, Python, Node/Go/Scala, SQL/noSQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS services.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Build and optimize high-performance backend systems for an xOT security platform using Rust. Participate across development lifecycle, design scalable microservices, integrate third-party devices and data providers, incorporate AI tools, and improve observability and reliability through testing, debugging, and peer review.

Design and implement high-performance backend systems in Rust, optimize architectures, participate across the development lifecycle (debugging, testing, optimization), integrate third-party devices and data, incorporate AI tools, mentor senior engineers, and lead architectural and technical strategy across teams.

Build and own backend services and infrastructure for a geospatial web platform: design REST APIs, model PostgreSQL/PostGIS data, manage deployments on Docker/Kubernetes (AWS EKS), maintain CI/CD and IaC, and collaborate with ML and frontend teams while engaging with customers.