Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs

Designs, builds, and scales backend services and integrations for payments, billing, identity, and partner connectivity. Sets technical vision and architecture for distributed systems, leads cross-team delivery, manages production rollouts, builds fault-tolerant services and data pipelines, and mentors engineers. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver frequent, reliable improvements for Flex’s rent payment platform.

Design, build, and scale backend services and integrations for payment, billing, identity, and partner systems. Own API scoping, design, implementation, deployment, and production operations with minimal oversight. Build fault-tolerant systems, data pipelines, and scalable architectures while collaborating with product, design, engineering, and external partners. Contribute to reliability monitoring, observability, automation, technical standards, and mentoring in a distributed team.

Own and lead backend products from architecture through production operation. Design high-traffic APIs and microservices, improve application and database performance, build real-time distributed data services, and enhance reliability, observability, automation, Kubernetes workloads, and cloud efficiency. Review code, establish engineering standards, coordinate dependencies, communicate tradeoffs, and drive ambiguous technical initiatives through rollout.

Design and build backend services and distributed systems for a customer-facing no-code product. Improve query performance across large data warehouses, develop analytics and experimentation capabilities, explore real-time computation and data syncing, and apply generative AI to user workflows. The role also involves writing product specifications, collaborating directly with users, making long-term architecture decisions, and ensuring services remain robust, maintainable, and scalable.

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 ship backend systems and robust architectures for SMB and enterprise restaurant customers. Drive end-to-end development including planning, CI/CD, and productionization. Collaborate on product roadmap, iterate from user feedback, and contribute to team culture and growth.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

Own the architecture, performance, reliability, and technical direction of high-traffic backend services and public APIs supporting search, browse, autocomplete, and recommendations. Lead distributed-systems design, mentor engineers, drive cross-team projects, participate in on-call and incident response, and balance scalability, latency, cost, and API compatibility.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

Designs, builds, and maintains secure, scalable FHIR-based backend services and REST APIs for CMS initiatives. Implements DEQM Summary MeasureReport profiles, resource validation, conformance checks, SMART security patterns, and automated tests. Partners on architecture decisions, troubleshoots interoperability issues, supports CI/CD conformance testing, and contributes to technical documentation, code reviews, Connectathons, and implementation testing.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab.com scale. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, integrate cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling, improve database performance and reliability, and create safe upgrade automation. The role includes production ownership, architecture leadership, code reviews, documentation, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and using AI agents in engineering workflows.

The Full-Stack Engineer will enhance backend functionality, collaborate with teams, and maintain platform performance and security, requiring expertise in Python.

Build Python backend services and data-intensive systems supporting member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, reporting, and analytics. Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines; validate, reconcile, retry, replay, and recover inconsistent external data. Improve production reliability, observability, testing, and performance while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Operations. The role offers growth toward independent ownership of services and technical decisions.

Develop backend systems for Hightouch’s Customer Studio product, focusing on data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI workflows. Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable distributed systems while contributing to product specifications and customer-focused solutions. The role requires strong product sense and the ability to architect data-processing features end to end.

Build and operate production creative agents for audio, image, and video generation. Develop backend systems for asynchronous, long-running tasks; improve agent prompts, tools, orchestration, models, MCP integrations, evaluations, monitoring, scalability, and security. Own features end to end, from prototyping and customer discovery through frontend delivery, production support, and collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams.

Lead the architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operation of scalable backend systems for Fanatics Core. Drive complex technical initiatives end to end, establish engineering standards, resolve incidents, improve observability and software quality, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable features across Fanatics’ sports, commerce, gaming, payments, identity, loyalty, and platform products.

Develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable backend distributed systems for Fanatics’ sports platform. Responsibilities include designing features, participating in code reviews and on-call support, improving observability and operational excellence, contributing to architecture and Agile planning, collaborating with product stakeholders, and mentoring junior engineers. Occasional travel to offices, conferences, and events is required.

Own backend systems and infrastructure end-to-end, designing, deploying, and scaling performant APIs and services on AWS using Node.js and TypeScript. Deliver reliable production code quickly, establish engineering best practices, make architectural tradeoffs, and collaborate with product engineers and stakeholders. The role emphasizes system ownership, scalability, performance, reliability, and effective use of AI-assisted development tools.

Design and develop the backend of the vCluster Platform using Go and deep Kubernetes expertise. Own features end to end, from technical design through release, while solving complex systems and multi-tenancy challenges. Contribute to open-source projects and Kubernetes community initiatives, build scalable isolation and resource-sharing solutions, and operate autonomously in a fast-growing startup environment.

Build and support backend-heavy software across Python and Java, with a primary focus on agentic AI. Develop MCP servers, LLM agents, tool-calling and multi-agent systems; evaluate agent behavior and production observability. Contribute to architecture, testing, code reviews, technical-debt reduction, and scalable microservices. Collaborate with Product Management and QA while working independently. Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, especially GCP, is valuable; React and TypeScript experience is preferred.

Develop and enhance backend financial and investment products, integrating with financial institutions and partners. Build scalable web applications and backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, and Kinesis. Responsibilities include analyzing requirements, implementing maintainable features, testing, troubleshooting production issues, designing scalable schemas, and contributing across the technology stack while primarily focusing on backend development.

Design and build scalable backend services and AI-powered applications using Node.js/TypeScript or Python. Develop AI agents, agentic workflows, LLM integrations, tool calling, evaluation frameworks, REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven services. Partner with Product and Business teams, provide architecture guidance and code reviews, lead an offshore engineering pod, and optimize backend and AI workloads for reliability and performance. The role is onsite in Rhode Island or Arizona.

Build realistic coding tasks involving feature implementation and bug fixes for AI systems. Develop deterministic verifiers that accept valid solutions and reject invalid ones. Apply backend expertise in scalable services and APIs, debugging, performance optimization, automated testing, code review, refactoring, and complex feature development. The role is remote, contractor-based, flexible, and output-compensated, with work expected to begin shortly after onboarding.

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing scalable Java Spring microservices, implementing features, resolving defects, and improving backend architecture. The role involves event-driven systems, relational and NoSQL databases, testing, code quality, mentoring engineers, technical leadership, and collaboration with product teams. Engineers will also validate AI-assisted code, promote AI development practices, and work with cloud-native tools across AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and continuous delivery systems.