Top Backend Developer Jobs

Build and operate core platform systems for users, workspaces, permissions, APIs, authentication, and resource management. Deliver full-stack features with a backend focus, including admin and settings interfaces. Scope work within large existing systems, plan migrations, manage safe rollouts, debug production issues, and collaborate across product and engineering teams. Candidates need strong Python and backend development expertise, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.

Develop backend services for a Big Data platform supporting data ingestion, storage maintenance, analytics integration, and distributed data processing. The role involves Java or Kotlin development with Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes, plus opportunities to work with Spark, S3-compatible storage, and other Big Data technologies. Responsibilities include contributing to design and architecture decisions, participating in the full development lifecycle, taking ownership of tasks, and collaborating with technical mentors.

Design and implement secure, reliable, scalable backend infrastructure and services for the Tapestry energy platform. Develop data ingestion, storage, and enterprise applications; collaborate with engineers, scientists, power systems experts, product managers, and external partners; guide technical strategy and architecture; troubleshoot production systems; and mentor engineers while enabling faster, safer product delivery.

Design and build distributed backend systems and AI agent frameworks for mission-critical power-grid management. Develop ML production infrastructure, model serving, inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and real-time feedback loops. Lead architecture, testing, CI/CD, performance tuning, observability, scalability, fault tolerance, and security. Collaborate with data scientists, power systems engineers, and DevOps teams to deploy AI solutions in control-center environments.

Build and operate distributed cloud backend services powering AI connections, collaboration, authentication, billing, telemetry, and developer workflows. Responsibilities include designing APIs and data models, writing Rust services, managing cloud infrastructure, leading projects, resolving production issues, participating in on-call, and guiding technical decisions across the team.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems for Uber Freight’s logistics platform. Lead architecture, data modeling, reliability, testing, deployment, and production health initiatives. Partner with product and operations teams to deliver complex logistics features, guide technical roadmaps, troubleshoot failures, conduct post-mortems, and mentor engineers.

Design and build scalable backend services, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems for a logistics platform. Lead architecture, data modeling, testing, deployment, reliability, and production troubleshooting. Partner with product and operations teams to deliver complex features, shape the technical roadmap, resolve technical debt, and mentor engineers while promoting strong engineering practices and system availability.

Build and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services, including request routing, traffic management, caching, asynchronous jobs, and durable event processing. Design distributed systems for scalability, consistency, availability, and predictable latency. Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives, make technical decisions, mentor engineers, improve developer experience, and collaborate across engineering teams.

Build and maintain backend services and product features across the full software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, deploying, validating, and improving production software; investigating issues; enhancing performance and reliability; identifying technical debt; and collaborating with product, AI, and edge systems teams. The role requires ownership of features, thoughtful decision-making in ambiguous situations, code reviews, documentation, and use of AI-assisted development tools.

Build and maintain server-side software for a production product, owning projects from concept through launch. Develop scalable backend components, contribute to a new product area, improve code review and developer tooling, and enhance automated build and deployment pipelines. Collaborate closely with senior staff and executives in an on-site, autonomous team while maintaining dependable and responsive systems.

Build, test, release, and operate backend services from initial design through production. Lead sizable engineering projects, develop test environments, respond to incidents, monitor reliability, expand job orchestration and AWS cloud infrastructure, and design scalable distributed systems. The role also involves mentoring junior engineers and may include browser automation or LLM-based agent work.

Design, build, deploy, and operate highly available, large-scale telemetry and observability services. Build APIs, tools, and subsystems for collection, routing, storage, and data access. Improve reliability, security, and platform intelligence (including machine-learning features), participate in on-call and incident response, and collaborate across teams to deliver end-to-end solutions and AI-assisted operational capabilities.

Build and operate highly scalable Go backend services and data infrastructure for the AT Protocol ecosystem. Scale systems to support hundreds of millions of users, hundreds of millions of events, petabytes of NVMe storage, thousands of CPU cores, and tens of terabytes of RAM. Responsibilities include developing mission-critical services, managing production operations, and working with databases, distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and storage technologies.

Build and scale secure backend microservices for payments, disbursements, and governance, risk, and compliance workflows. Design distributed systems capable of handling millions of daily requests using Google Cloud and modern infrastructure tools. Collaborate with product, operations, and compliance teams, mentor junior engineers, and improve platform capabilities through analytics and user feedback. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, REST API experience, fintech or financial systems knowledge, and familiarity with event-driven and hexagonal architectures.

Build and scale secure backend microservices for payments, disbursements, or governance, risk, and compliance. Design distributed systems handling millions of daily requests, integrate Google Cloud services, implement financial and compliance workflows, and maintain high performance and security. Collaborate with product, operations, and compliance teams, mentor junior engineers, and continuously improve platform capabilities through analytics and user feedback.

Build and scale backend microservices for payments, disbursements, or governance, risk, and compliance systems. Design secure, high-performance distributed infrastructure using Google Cloud and modern engineering practices. Develop REST services, support financial workflows, collaborate across product and compliance teams, mentor junior engineers, and continuously improve platform capabilities. The role requires experience with fintech applications, payment or compliance systems, security, KYC/AML, and scalable web services.

Build and scale backend microservices for payments, disbursements, or governance, risk, and compliance systems. Design secure, high-performance financial infrastructure using Google Cloud and distributed-system technologies. Develop REST services, support transaction processing, onboarding, KYC, and compliance workflows, and collaborate cross-functionally with product, operations, and compliance teams. Mentor junior engineers, improve engineering practices, and iterate on platform capabilities using analytics and user feedback.

Own and architect large-scale backend systems powering Anthropic’s API, Claude products, and enterprise platforms. Lead complex projects, make scalability and reliability decisions, collaborate across engineering, product, research, and commercial teams, and remain hands-on with code and AI models. Potential areas include platform serving, developer experience, agentic systems, identity, enterprise foundations, safety, and cloud-native distribution.

Design and implement an LLVM-based backend JIT compiler for NVIDIA GPUs. Develop compiler passes and optimizations, focusing on high performance and low compile time. Collaborate with hardware, compiler, and application teams to resolve issues and influence future GPU architectures.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of backend services supporting multi-tenant MSSP partner workflows. Responsibilities include tenant isolation, account hierarchies, delegated administration, API design, reliability, observability, production issue ownership, and mentoring engineers. The role partners across Product and Engineering to deliver secure, reliable cloud-hosted platform capabilities for client and sub-client management.

Designs, develops, and supports scalable Java microservices using Spring Boot and Google Cloud. Responsibilities include SQL and data pipeline development, CI/CD automation with Jenkins, infrastructure as code using Terraform, unit testing, code reviews, production incident resolution, root-cause analysis, agile execution, and mentoring engineering teams.

Build and operate backend services and asynchronous workflows that provision customer accounts, assets, and product entitlements. Own projects from design through production support, ensuring reliable retries, idempotency, observability, testing, and recovery from failures. Collaborate with licensing, Product, administration, partner, and customer-facing teams to improve onboarding and activation paths. Investigate operational issues, address root causes, document systems, and contribute to code reviews and technical problem solving.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend services and APIs supporting account administration, authorization, tenant boundaries, account hierarchies, settings, roles, and audit logs. Lead architecture and implementation of complex changes, improve API quality, testing, security, observability, rollout practices, and production readiness. Partner across Product and Engineering, mentor engineers, influence technical direction, document tradeoffs, and diagnose complex production issues.

Develop scalable back-end systems, APIs, tools, and sites using Node.js, Express, TypeScript, databases, containers, and modern architectural approaches. Collaborate with Agile development teams, identify technical risks, and deliver efficient client solutions. The role requires a Secret clearance and includes a skills assessment as part of the hiring process.

Design, implement, operate, and scale critical backend services such as identity, social graph, and persistence systems. Collaborate across teams to deliver product solutions, test and debug code, and apply best practices for availability, scalability, security, operational excellence, and cost management. Independently deliver medium-sized features, support incident resolution, and use AI tools responsibly to improve development workflows while maintaining production-quality standards.