Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs

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.

Designs, builds, and supports scalable Java and Spring Boot microservices on GCP. Responsibilities include SQL and data pipeline development, CI/CD with Jenkins, infrastructure automation using Terraform, comprehensive JUnit testing, code reviews, agile tracking, production incident resolution, and root-cause analysis. The role collaborates with product, architecture, and cloud engineering teams while mentoring peers and improving engineering standards. Remote work is available, with less than 10% travel and a requirement to obtain and maintain Public Trust.

Lead the architecture and development of backend platforms, REST and GraphQL APIs, service integrations, security patterns, and AI/LLM integration capabilities. Build observability and reliability infrastructure, contribute to full-stack features using TypeScript and Next.js, and establish engineering standards across the team. Ensure HIPAA-compliant handling of PHI while owning complex systems from architecture through production operations.

Design and lead backend platform services, REST and GraphQL APIs, integrations, security patterns, HIPAA-compliant PHI controls, AI/LLM integration, observability, and reliability infrastructure. Contribute to end-to-end full-stack features using TypeScript, Next.js, and React. Establish architecture standards and reviews while supporting scalable services used by healthcare teams and patients.

Build and evolve Restate’s durable execution runtime, focusing on distributed systems, state management, storage, messaging, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance, and reliability. Design, test, operate, and improve production-scale backend infrastructure; diagnose complex systems issues; develop integrations and tooling; collaborate with production users; and contribute to architecture, observability, documentation, and engineering practices.

Set technical direction for distributed messaging systems handling billions of messages daily. Make architecture decisions balancing scale, cost, and reliability; solve ambiguous cross-team problems; establish engineering standards; mentor senior engineers; improve processes and tooling; assess candidates; and use AI agents for multi-file software changes.

Design, build, and evaluate conversational AI agents using Go and Python. Own agent orchestration, sub-agent architecture, prompt engineering, tool integrations, guardrails, approval flows, observability, and evaluation infrastructure. Develop datasets, scorers, regression suites, and quality metrics for production readiness. Collaborate cross-functionally on conversational experiences, make architecture decisions, rapidly prototype agents, harden them for launch, and mentor engineers.

Architect and build backend systems powering conversational AI experiences. Lead complex projects across the software development lifecycle, define technical direction, design scalable solutions, and ensure system quality. Mentor engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and onboarding while collaborating cross-functionally on product strategy, experiments, and high-value initiatives. Develop LLM-driven infrastructure and maintain operational excellence across production systems.

Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable conversational AI systems and backend services. Own projects from ideation through execution, shape the engineering roadmap, design RESTful APIs and business logic, integrate external partners, evaluate ML-driven results, and optimize platform scalability. The role also includes technical leadership, mentoring, code reviews, cross-functional collaboration, and product-focused decision-making.

Design, build, maintain, and improve backend services and APIs supporting real-time translation. Own complex features from technical design through delivery, work with distributed systems, messaging, event streaming, caches, and NoSQL stores, and resolve production issues. Write comprehensive tests, participate in design and code reviews, improve reliability and maintainability, collaborate cross-functionally, and use AI-assisted development tools responsibly.

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 Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

Build end-to-end product features with a backend focus: schema and API design, UI work in React/TypeScript, GCP/Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD, DB performance tuning, production ownership, and product decision-making using AI coding tools.

Build and maintain scalable backend services for content experimentation, event tracking, and app-start fidelity. Develop unit, integration, and acceptance tests; contribute to architecture and design proposals; collaborate with engineering, product, mobile, BI, and marketing teams; leverage existing services; use AI workflows responsibly; and participate in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Principal frontend-focused software engineer responsible for leading frontend architecture, standards, tooling, accessibility, performance, testing, and deployment practices. The role delivers scalable customer-facing web applications, component libraries, and design systems using React or Angular. It includes cross-functional product collaboration, technical decision-making, mentoring, modernization initiatives, and occasional full-stack work. The position is remote, requires U.S. citizenship, Public Trust 6C eligibility, and approximately 0–10% business travel.

Design, build, and operate Rust services for account creation, identity verification, KYC/CIP decisioning, and asynchronous outcome delivery. Develop provider integrations, testable decision logic, secure PII workflows, policy-driven market configurations, and reliable cloud-native architecture using GCP and Kubernetes. Lead technical design reviews, establish cross-team contracts, respond to incidents, and mentor engineers while improving onboarding approval rates and time-to-funding.

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.

Lead and deliver quarterly goals for a backend team; guide engineers through ambiguous problems; collaborate with product, design, and analytics; identify and resolve project and technical issues; ensure operational availability and on-call readiness; set code and design quality standards; and mentor and develop team members.

Own and scale production backend systems using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, APIs, microservices, queues, and distributed architectures. Diagnose and improve reliability, security, performance, observability, testing, and deployment practices. Integrate third-party services, collaborate with product, data, design, and frontend teams, and modernize inherited systems while maintaining delivery speed. The role requires strong production ownership, pragmatic technical judgment, and comfort working remotely in a fast-moving startup.

Build and own scalable payments infrastructure for card issuing, transaction processing, and settlement. Design reliable integrations with Stripe, banking partners, and internal platforms using .NET, C#, Azure, DDD, CQRS, and event-driven architectures. Improve system reliability, observability, performance, security, and compliance while mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction. Apply AI-assisted development across coding, testing, debugging, and engineering workflows.

Build and operate scalable backend infrastructure for Spotify’s personalization and recommendation systems. Develop services supporting content and user representations, candidate generation, retrieval, ranking, and filtering. Improve system reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability while collaborating across engineering teams. Participate in technical design and architectural decisions for high-volume, distributed workloads.

Build and own backend services for a private markets investing platform. Deliver end-to-end software across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, iterate on ambiguous problems, apply distributed systems principles, and incorporate AI/LLMs for data extraction and document generation. Participate in recruiting and maintain high-quality delivery practices.

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.

Own and evolve the backend and Go networking engine for a consumer VPN product. Responsibilities include stabilizing production systems, developing account, subscription, server-selection, and WireGuard APIs, integrating payment and analytics platforms, improving security, testing, observability, documentation, and CI/CD, and collaborating with mobile, infrastructure, product, and operations teams.