Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs

Lead design and implementation of backend services and APIs for payments, billing, settlements, ledgers, and reconciliation. Drive architecture for highly available, auditable financial platforms, integrate with payment processors and banking partners, ensure transactional integrity, observability, and compliance. Deliver end-to-end initiatives, mentor engineers, and operate mission-critical systems with strong emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability.

The Staff+ Software Engineer will shape the technical direction, mentor junior engineers, and lead complex software system development while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs; implement authentication and secure session flows; develop real-time data pipelines and media handling; architect and migrate database schemas (Postgres to DynamoDB); collaborate with mobile/frontend teams to deliver low-latency consumer experiences; participate in full SDLC in a fast-moving startup environment.

Build, architect, and own moderate-to-complex backend components; lead small teams or projects; provide technical guidance and code reviews; deliver end-to-end backend services focused on AI-enabled customer data insights, onboarding, messaging/calling features, and scalable data management for a growing user base.

Design and implement complex backend services for Binance Square. Collaborate with product, DevOps, and QA to deliver high-quality microservices, promote engineering best practices, and perform code reviews.

Build and maintain high-throughput distributed KYC services: translate business requirements into reliable services, write tests and docs, perform performance tuning and incident troubleshooting, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers while following engineering best practices.

Join as an early-career full stack engineer to build frontend and backend product features, integrate AI coding tools into development workflows, translate product requirements into implementations, and grow toward autonomous full stack delivery while improving cross-team processes.

Build and operate distributed backend services and genomic reasoning engines that combine whole genome bioinformatics with AI. Design scalable data models, retrieval and vector search systems, and deterministic guardrails to ensure scientifically accurate, explainable genomic AI for production use.

Senior full‑stack engineer responsible for building backend services (Node.js/TypeScript) and integrating with frontends (React/Vue). Ship production APIs, collaborate cross‑functionally, own delivery, mentor peers, and develop modular, testable, performant systems across diverse greenfield projects.

Founding engineering role to architect and build core backend platform components. Design and implement scalable, distributed Java/JVM systems, apply solid testing and CI/CD practices, collaborate with CEO/CTO, and work in an agile early-stage fintech startup environment.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll develop and maintain REST APIs using Django, manage cloud infrastructure, and oversee CI/CD pipelines to support consumer fintech applications.

As a Backend Engineer at Coral AI, you will design and build scalable backend systems, collaborate with teams, enforce best practices, and mentor engineers.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will build APIs and integrations, develop fault-tolerant systems, mentor engineers, and ensure code quality.

Architect and scale LlamaIndex's cloud platform, collaborating with engineering teams to create developer-friendly tools for context-aware applications.

Responsible for architecting and scaling the LlamaIndex cloud platform, delivering integrated developer experiences for context-aware applications.

As a Founding Backend Engineer, you will architect and scale LlamaIndex's cloud platform, ensuring a seamless developer experience while building scalable infrastructure and user-facing APIs.

The Founding Backend Engineer will architect and scale LlamaIndex's cloud platform, focusing on building scalable cloud services, containerized deployments, and user-facing APIs while collaborating with engineering teams.

Build and maintain automated ETL/ELT data pipelines, improve data quality and monitoring, optimize Postgres and BigQuery schemas and queries, develop internal tooling, support data governance (HIPAA), participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate across engineering teams to scale data systems.

The Backend Engineer will implement new SDK and Indexer features, automate testing, support integration, and oversee production releases.

As a Staff Backend Engineer for Tempo, you'll lead technical initiatives, own core component architecture, drive operational excellence, mentor engineers, and contribute to open-source projects, focusing on enhancing Grafana's tracing capabilities and API development.

The role involves owning product feature development, participating in system design, and maintaining software performance in an agile setting.

Join Zencastr as a Senior Backend Engineer, focusing on building scalable applications using Node.js and Typescript, while emphasizing performance and code quality.

As a Software Engineer at Realm, you will develop backend services, create web and mobile UIs, and deploy tech at industrial sites. You will solve real-world challenges using various technologies and work with top leadership to build a stellar engineering team.

Design, build, test, and scale backend services and integrations (payments, billing, identity, partner integrations). Lead API design and production rollouts, build fault-tolerant systems and data pipelines, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor peers to deliver frequent, iterative product improvements.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build distributed systems in Go, collaborate across teams, and ensure performance and reliability at scale.