Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs

Build enterprise-grade authentication, authorization, and identity features across the full stack. Design and implement RBAC, provisioning (SCIM), SSO/OAuth integrations, secure public APIs, and admin workflows for auditing and compliance. Own end-to-end product changes, collaborate on architecture, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, reliable systems for enterprise customers.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

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.

Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. Integrate with third-party billing/commerce systems, maintain serverless/event-driven architectures on AWS, ensure security and performance, implement automated tests and CI/CD, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions.

Build and maintain backend services and APIs, write unit tests, debug and optimize systems, support migration from Supabase to cloud, improve reliability, and integrate AI/RPA workflows while learning under senior mentorship.

Design, build, test, and support EPIC integration solutions across the full interface lifecycle. Gather requirements, resolve integration issues, develop standards and documentation, and provide production support within a remote, volunteer, part-time setup.

Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs powering the insurance platform. Integrate payments, documents, and data providers, improve system stability, performance, and scalability, mentor team members, and participate in architectural decisions and agile ceremonies.

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.

As a Software Engineer on the Compute team, you will build and optimize systems for data processing, SQL querying, and improve the performance of code execution. You will tackle complex engineering challenges spanning backend data systems to frontend applications, ensuring efficiency and usability.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for speech inference and audio processing. Optimize networking, transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Measure and improve system performance, debug complex networking/scheduling/HPC issues, customize services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Design and implement scalable, secure inference services for speech processing. Optimize networking, audio transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Debug complex system issues, customize backend services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver end-to-end features.

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.

Design, build, and maintain reliable backend systems; optimize performance, scalability, and security; implement testing and CI/CD; collaborate with product, design, engineering, and customer success; mentor engineers; contribute to technical direction and customer-focused requirements; and participate in on-call rotations.

Designs and builds scalable microservices, distributed applications, ETL pipelines, and AI data workflows for autonomous vehicle data. Responsibilities include streaming, orchestration, security, data management, model deployment, RAG workflows, video curation, behavioral search, and optimization of large-scale distributed systems. The role collaborates with software and AI experts while using technologies such as Python or Golang, Kubernetes, Hive, Parquet, SQL, vector databases, Spark, and NVIDIA RAPIDS.

Design, build, and operate payment services for card processing, refunds, reconciliation, and processor integrations. Develop scalable Kotlin and Java Spring Boot APIs, optimize PostgreSQL schemas and SQL, and implement idempotency, retries, webhooks, audit trails, and reconciliation. Respond to payment incidents, conduct root cause analysis, collaborate cross-functionally, review architecture and code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong distributed-systems, payments, PCI DSS, debugging, and production operations experience.

Build and operate scalable backend services for connected devices, including device connectivity, telemetry ingestion, health monitoring, command and control, and data pipelines. Collaborate with firmware, mobile, and product teams on APIs and workflows. Use AWS, microservices, streaming systems, observability tools, and AI coding agents to deliver reliable features, participate in incident response, and improve automation and engineering practices.

Build and operate reliable backend services for a developer-focused email platform. Responsibilities include owning features end-to-end, designing APIs and relational data models, scaling databases, building distributed systems with queues and background workers, managing AWS infrastructure, improving observability and deployments, participating in on-call, and partnering with customers and support to improve the product.

The Backend Engineer will build and maintain Resend's email transport infrastructure, focusing on SMTP delivery, routing, and system design for high-volume email sending. They will ensure the reliability and observability of the systems while participating in incident response.

Develop backend blockchain functionality for Cardax DEX on the Cardano blockchain. Write and maintain smart contracts in Plutarch and Haskell that define the constraints and conditions for decentralized token exchange without a central entity.

Lead design and evolution of Hex's graph-based compute execution architecture. Optimize parallel execution, caching, and remote warehouse interactions. Instrument and diagnose performance, author technical proposals, mentor engineers, and roadmap long-term platform designs while remaining hands-on in backend code.

Build and maintain the Python-based backend engine for GitLab Duo Chat, including agentic LangGraph flows, the Flow Registry, and Duo Workflow Service. Integrate chat capabilities with GitLab’s Rails monolith and GraphQL API, develop secure and tested high-scale features, optimize performance, review code, address technical debt, and collaborate cross-functionally. Participate in weekday, weekend, and occasional nighttime Tier 2 or Tier 3 on-call rotations.

Develop and maintain large-scale backend infrastructure and distributed software systems. Responsibilities include architecture upgrades, performance tuning, incident troubleshooting, system refactoring, and writing clean, maintainable Java code. The role also guides junior engineers, shares technical knowledge, and collaborates across teams.

Design and lead backend application architecture and development for spot trading systems. Responsibilities include coding in Java, integrating databases and messaging middleware, debugging, testing, maintenance, migration, documentation, stakeholder collaboration, technical support, and mentoring junior developers. The role emphasizes distributed systems, enterprise application standards, and scalable architecture within a global blockchain ecosystem.

Lead the architecture, design, and development of complex backend software systems for data-intensive applications. Drive technical direction, implement new technologies, improve code quality, reduce technical debt, and promote testing and continuous delivery. Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally with product and design teams, engage with customers, and help deliver maintainable, scalable solutions using backend technologies, databases, distributed computing, and cloud platforms.

Design, build, operate, and maintain high-scale distributed telemetry systems for Grafana Mimir. Deliver features from concept through production, improve reliability and performance, review code and designs, manage releases, collaborate across the squad, contribute to open-source projects, and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations. The role involves cloud software development, microservices, observability, DevOps practices, and database query optimization.