Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs

Lead the architecture, development, and deployment of scalable APIs and backend systems for Afresh’s AI-powered grocery ordering platform. Partner with product, account management, design, and engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions used across thousands of stores. Drive projects from conception through launch, make high-impact architectural decisions, understand complex business dependencies, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs, develops, and deploys scalable, resilient backend applications and APIs using TypeScript and AWS cloud services. Responsibilities include managing infrastructure with AWS CDK, working with DynamoDB and Lambda, collaborating with frontend and product teams, writing testable code, participating in code reviews, troubleshooting production issues, and applying AWS best practices.

Own the payments connector and adapter layer, enabling configurable provider integrations and migration to server-to-server and embedded flows. Build reliable transaction status handling through polling, idempotency, reconciliation, and observability. Define orchestration platform requirements for state machines, routing, cascading, and failure handling. Support card-program integrations, third-party provider relationships, and extending payment capabilities to acquired entities.

Architect and build high-throughput backend systems for Filevine’s legal technology platform using .NET, DDD, event sourcing, MartenDB, Wolverine, and PostgreSQL. Own features end to end, including domain modeling, APIs, testing, observability, CI/CD, and production monitoring. Mentor engineers, optimize system resilience and performance, and collaborate with product, UX, and legal experts to translate complex workflows into scalable software.

Architect and build production agentic AI systems for customer support and compliance automation. Lead technical direction for distributed systems, APIs, orchestration frameworks, guardrails, and evaluation systems. Create reusable automation primitives, improve grounding and reliability, reduce hallucinations, and mentor engineers on LLM application design and production readiness. Collaborate cross-functionally to scale AI automation across Coinbase.

Design, build, and operate backend Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets across multiple chains. Own end-to-end delivery from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout. Drive asset migration pipeline improvements, run on-call operations, build observability and runbooks, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs, develops, deploys, and operates scalable Go and Python microservices in distributed production environments. Responsibilities include API design, Kubernetes deployment, monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting incidents, system architecture, security, testing, code reviews, and continuous improvements to development processes and infrastructure. The role requires end-to-end service ownership, strong Linux and Docker expertise, observability knowledge, and experience with reliability, performance, and CI/CD practices.

Own product areas end to end, from scoping and implementation through launch, instrumentation, customer feedback, and operations. Build agentic product capabilities, use coding agents responsibly, engage directly with customers, monitor adoption and infrastructure performance, participate in on-call, and improve quality, security, and engineering efficiency. The role involves backend development across Ruby on Rails, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, streaming infrastructure, APIs, databases, and observability systems.

Build and maintain backend services and APIs for a large-scale AI neobank, supporting onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, foreign exchange, KYC, and risk workflows. Integrate with financial partners, payment providers, AI services, and third-party platforms. Ensure reliability, security, scalability, observability, data integrity, and effective incident handling while collaborating with product, frontend, mobile, and AI teams.

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, 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.