Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable Java backend applications and microservices. Translate business requirements into technical designs, build RESTful APIs, integrate services, conduct code reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and ensure software quality. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, identify project risks, participate in solution analysis, and mentor junior developers while supporting reliable, high-performance solutions.

Provides technical leadership for engineers building scalable cloud-native applications on AWS. Leads architecture, modernization, Spring Boot microservices, OpenSearch, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure initiatives. Ensures security, scalability, performance, and reliability while mentoring engineers and improving development practices. Collaborates with product, architecture, platform, and business stakeholders, supports incident resolution, and drives DevOps, automation, and AI-assisted development.

Build and maintain backend services and metadata pipelines supporting data discovery, governance, and AI/ML workflows. Responsibilities include integrating relational databases, developing Java, Node.js, and Python services, optimizing distributed pipelines, implementing Terraform infrastructure, supporting GitLab CI/CD, and writing comprehensive tests. The role also involves troubleshooting scalability and reliability issues, designing asynchronous workflows, and collaborating on modern data lake, search, metadata, and LLM-enabled technologies.

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.

Build and maintain Go backend microservices for Mirantis’ multi-tenant GPU infrastructure control plane. Responsibilities include designing REST APIs and database schemas, implementing Temporal workflows and event-driven services, managing authentication and authorization, writing comprehensive tests, instrumenting production services, and packaging deployments with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes. The role also involves code reviews, incident debugging, and cross-regional collaboration.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications at massive scale. Own the full engineering lifecycle, establish standards for reliability and testing, troubleshoot production issues, influence technical roadmaps, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep backend development, distributed cloud systems, system design, automated testing, and technical leadership experience.

Design and implement Mojo language features, compiler optimizations, and multi-target compilation for CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators using MLIR and LLVM. Collaborate with kernel authors, hardware engineers, researchers, and the open-source community to improve language design, code generation, performance, developer experience, and the broader Mojo SDK.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, REST APIs, server-side applications, and database systems. Improve performance, reliability, monitoring, and security; integrate third-party services; write tested code; troubleshoot production issues; and contribute to code reviews and engineering best practices. Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, QA, and product teams while deploying and operating applications using cloud infrastructure, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, REST APIs, server-side applications, and database systems. Improve performance, reliability, security, monitoring, and logging; integrate external services; write tested code; review implementations; troubleshoot production issues; and collaborate with frontend, DevOps, QA, and product teams. The role also involves Docker, CI/CD, cloud deployments, and potentially Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and event-driven systems.

Build and operate Python backend services, REST APIs, clinical data models, and batch or event-driven pipelines. Work with FHIR and HL7 healthcare data to support reliable integrations, reporting, analytics, and AI workflows. Establish data quality, validation, governance, lineage, monitoring, and auditability practices. Lead architectural discussions, review implementations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with clinical, product, analytics, and AI teams.

Owns delivery of backend money movement and card ledger systems, leading engineers through complex problems and ambiguity. Collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; defines scalable technical solutions; supports system availability, monitoring, on-call operations, code quality, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring and developing team talent while building highly available distributed systems for Affirm’s financial products.

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.

The role involves designing and developing high-performance web apps, improving user interfaces, maintaining component libraries, and ensuring code quality through comprehensive testing and collaboration with other teams.

Build and operate backend APIs, a reusable integration platform, security-tool connectors, MCP capabilities, and event-driven services. Own GraphQL federation, permissions, multi-tenant access, reliability, observability, vendor API resilience, and production operations. Collaborate across engineering, product, and security teams while mentoring other engineers and contributing to technical standards.

Build and operate backend services for licensing, entitlements, provisioning, access control, multi-tenant administration, MSP/MSSP workflows, audit logging, and notifications. Design reliable cloud-native systems using Docker, Kubernetes, and relational databases, while contributing to observability, incident response, documentation, testing, and platform security. Collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams and mentor less experienced engineers.

Develop scalable Go backend services for grocery marketplace experiences including catalogs, search, product details, carts, and checkout. Design high-load systems handling location-based assortments, pricing, inventory, discounts, substitutions, and partner integrations. Build reliable microservice interactions, optimize latency and availability, and implement observability across metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing.

Develop and maintain enterprise and SaaS backend applications using Java and Spring Boot. Design RESTful APIs, manage authentication and authorization, build database models and queries, conduct code reviews, improve application performance and security, and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders. The role also involves testing, deployment, documentation, and maintaining cloud-based applications using AWS and Docker.

Build and scale Bubble’s backend infrastructure, distributed systems, workflow engine, data tier, and core backbone services. Improve performance, reliability, observability, capacity management, and scalability across billions of requests. Define SLOs, support high-volume workloads, participate in triage and on-call rotations, diagnose incidents, and implement durable fixes while collaborating with a small engineering team.

Build backend APIs, GraphQL services, ETL pipelines, event-driven systems, and distributed infrastructure for cybersecurity workflows involving vulnerability intelligence, EDR validation, deception, tripwires, and autonomous defense. The role includes production reliability, monitoring, incident response, debugging, customer-facing security features, and collaboration with engineering and product teams. The engineer will also mentor less experienced developers and ensure security automation is safe, explainable, and reversible.

Lead ONDC integration by designing and implementing backend services and APIs. Ensure compliance with ONDC/Beckn standards, handle data modeling, performance tuning, API security, and transaction flows. Integrate logistics, payments, and catalog systems, write tests, conduct code reviews, and maintain high availability for ONDC services.

Build and operate Transit’s backend infrastructure for cross-chain exchange and RFQ orchestration. Responsibilities include pricing, quoting, routing, inventory management, settlement, orderbook matching, chain and venue integrations, compliance enforcement, and revenue attribution. Own systems from design through deployment and monitoring, manage financial correctness and inventory risk, and provide technical leadership through architecture, reviews, and mentorship.

Own and lead the technical direction of a major codebase section while designing, building, testing, documenting, and maintaining secure, scalable API-based decisioning products. Partner with product, engineering, and security teams on agile delivery, troubleshoot production issues, meet SLA requirements, and participate in an on-call rotation.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend services for a digital mortgage platform using Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, and Docker. Responsibilities include API and data architecture, cloud deployment, reliability and security, production troubleshooting, performance optimization, observability, and CI/CD collaboration. The role leads technical design and code reviews, mentors engineers, coordinates with global teams, and owns major engineering workstreams.

Lead the architecture, development, testing, and maintenance of scalable backend systems and APIs. Drive technical decisions, code quality, performance optimization, documentation, continuous delivery, and monitoring. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to translate requirements into reliable solutions. Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, resolve complex technical issues, and contribute to agile development and overall technology strategy.

Build and improve Go backend services, GraphQL APIs, relational data models, background jobs, and third-party integrations. Write SQL, automated tests, and production fixes while improving reliability and performance through logs and metrics. Collaborate with product, design, mobile, and frontend engineers to ship collector-facing features. The role requires ownership, clear communication, fast learning, and comfort working in a small, rapidly changing startup environment.