Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs

As a Back-End Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain core infrastructure while ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability in a fintech environment.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and operate backend services, lead technical initiatives, ensure reliability, and mentor team members in a remote-first setup.

The Marketing Backend Developer will build and maintain backend services and APIs for marketing operations, ensuring reliable data flow and system integrations, with a focus on performance and scalability.

You will tackle AI challenges, develop scalable software and collaborate with teams to enhance healthcare navigation using AI solutions.

Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for the Overseer platform to ensure correctness across Coinbase fund flows. Own architecture, design and delivery of real-time detection, invariant frameworks, and partner APIs. Drive cross-team alignment, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead P0 initiatives, and apply generative AI responsibly to scale automated guardrails and enforcement capabilities.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase, you'll build systems for crypto trading, mentor other engineers, and ensure product excellence by architecting robust, highly available services.

Nourish seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain backend services, collaborate with teams, and enhance engineering processes. Responsibilities include product development, codebase management, and driving improvements for scalability.

The Principal Software Engineer will design and optimize backend applications/services, improve payment integration, and oversee code quality within AWS.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will architect Affirm's lakehouse analytics platform, lead data governance efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to optimize data solutions using Snowflake and other big data tools.

Lead architecture and technical direction for AI-enabled backend products, build proofs-of-concept, write production-grade code, mentor backend engineers, resolve technical debt, and collaborate with Product and Design to turn ambiguous goals into well-architected initiatives while embedding AI workflows into development.

The Senior Backend Engineer will develop the Payroll product, overseeing the entire development cycle from design to deployment, in a microservices architecture.

Design, build, and optimize scalable, resilient backend storage systems on AWS. Develop distributed storage services, APIs, and automation (IaC, CI/CD). Drive performance tuning, cost optimization, security, observability, incident response, and mentor engineers to improve reliability and scalability.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for commerce workflows using Python/Django. Improve reliability, performance, and observability, operate AWS deployments, work with PostgreSQL and event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS), modernize legacy systems, and support CI/CD, testing, and production troubleshooting.

The Backend Product Engineer will enhance the Radar platform, manage API traffic, engage with customers, and work across various backend technologies to drive product success.

As a Staff Backend Software Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of critical payment systems for Headway's mental healthcare platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency. You'll mentor other engineers while contributing to technical decisions and building integrations with third-party services.

The Back-end Engineer will develop and maintain services and APIs, design data models, and contribute to system stability, collaborating with other engineers and product managers.

The Senior Platform Backend Engineer will design and operate AWS-based systems, focusing on backend services for data platforms and analytics, while ensuring reliability and operational excellence.

The Staff Backend Engineer will enhance platform reliability and scalability, lead the SRE team, optimize data infrastructure, and define SLOs to meet customer needs.

The Back-End Engineer will design and build server-side infrastructure for Akkio's AI platform, focusing on APIs, database schemas, and data processing pipelines while optimizing system performance and security.

The Backend Engineer will develop infrastructure for product integration, create documentation for team training, and influence technology decisions.

Design, optimize, and scale ClickUp's search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch. Improve relevance, speed, and real-time indexing; build vector/semantic search capabilities; create measurement frameworks; integrate search with AI and product features; troubleshoot at scale; and mentor junior engineers to maintain high search quality under heavy load.

Build and operate large-scale, event-driven data pipelines and backend Java services using Scio, Apache Beam, BigQuery and GCP to support personalization and machine learning. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, deliver scalable, testable production code, and mentor teammates to improve platform reliability and experimentation capabilities.

Build and maintain secure, well-tested backend systems and internal tooling (dashboards, workflows, automation) for lending and trading operations. Design scalable APIs and durable workflows, integrate external services, optimise performance, and collaborate with Risk, Ops, Trading, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver reliable production systems.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.

The Staff Backend Software Engineer will design and improve scalable backend systems for Dropbox's Commerce Platform, ensuring system reliability and data consistency while influencing technical strategy and collaborating with cross-functional teams.