Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs

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.

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.

Design, develop, and deliver scalable .NET back-end and front-end solutions within an Agile, DevOps-oriented team. Lead technical design, code reviews, testing-first practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and ensure non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability, maintainability). Mentor peers and collaborate across product, design, and architecture to produce high-quality software.

Own significant product areas from customer problem discovery through solution definition, prototyping, shipping, measurement, and iteration. Build AI-powered prototypes and production products using tools such as Claude and Cursor, engage directly with customers and commercial stakeholders, lead small squads, influence product direction, and contribute to an AI-native product engineering culture.

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.

Own and improve the company’s backend data and orchestration platform, including external integrations, event-driven pipelines, storage, monitoring, backend services, infrastructure, security, and access management. Build reliable systems with freshness and quality checks, simplify a rapidly grown data environment, document processes, communicate trade-offs, and guide junior engineers. The role requires hands-on production ownership in a remote, fast-paced company.

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.

Design and build backend systems for finance and accounting modules within an AI-native ERP platform. Responsibilities include modeling invoicing, payments, and financial reporting data; developing Python and FastAPI services with PostgreSQL; building integration APIs; aggregating operational and financial data; and owning greenfield features from design through deployment. The engineer will primarily own backend systems while contributing to React frontend development as needed.

Design and deliver LLM-powered, agentic AI systems to automate customer support and compliance. Build scalable, secure backend infrastructure in Python and Go, integrate third-party models/APIs, implement grounding and guardrails, and measure performance. Lead end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and participate in on-call and incident response to improve resolution times and reduce operational costs.

Build and optimize high-performance backend systems for an xOT security platform using Rust. Participate across development lifecycle, design scalable microservices, integrate third-party devices and data providers, incorporate AI tools, and improve observability and reliability through testing, debugging, and peer review.

Design and implement high-performance backend systems in Rust, optimize architectures, participate across the development lifecycle (debugging, testing, optimization), integrate third-party devices and data, incorporate AI tools, mentor senior engineers, and lead architectural and technical strategy across teams.

Design, build, and maintain backend services powering Clerkie's platform. Improve reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and support feature development. Participate in technical design, cross-functional collaboration, documentation, and own projects end-to-end in a fast-moving startup environment.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

Own and improve the data foundation for Radar's geocoding platform: model and serve location data, build large-scale ingestion and integration pipelines, improve coverage and quality, apply LLMs/agents for enrichment and labeling, work across Scala/Python/Rust and the Node.js API, operate systems at very high throughput, and engage with customers to inform product decisions.

Design, build, and maintain Python backend services and internal APIs for high-traffic hosting platforms. Administer Linux production systems, optimize MySQL queries and schemas, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in on-call rotation. Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver tested features, modernize legacy Perl systems, and contribute to technical design decisions. Apply AI responsibly throughout development, debugging, testing, and code review.

Lead the architecture, development, deployment, and reliability of scalable APIs for Afresh’s flagship AI ordering product. Partner with product, account management, and engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions, support the existing iPad application, and shape future product direction. Drive projects from conception through launch, enforce testing and release best practices, mentor junior engineers, participate in Agile ceremonies, and provide constructive code reviews.

Lead development of security enforcement integrations that warn or block unsafe AI artifact installations, serve sanitized alternatives, and record audit events. Build reliable event-driven backend systems with queues, webhooks, idempotency, retries, back-pressure, approval flows, dry runs, audit logs, and rollback mechanisms. Integrate third-party security, infrastructure, and identity APIs, with potential future work on fleet-wide revocation controls and security platform integrations.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and infrastructure for Roadie’s logistics platform. Identify performance bottlenecks, improve reliability, collaborate with Product, Data Science, and engineering teams, contribute to code reviews and technical practices, and own projects from concept through production.

Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and integration layers for a modular ecommerce platform. Integrate personalization, semantic and LLM search, DAM, PIM, SAP/HANA, ERP, analytics, and customer data systems. Use AI coding agents throughout development while validating code quality, security, performance, and reliability. Design scalable APIs, automated testing, observability, and reusable architecture while collaborating with internal teams, vendors, and implementation partners.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend services, APIs, databases, data flows, and infrastructure. Leads complex features from design through deployment while improving performance, observability, security, testing, and reliability. Integrates third-party platforms, supports cloud infrastructure and CI/CD practices, and mentors engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

Design and build scalable backend services and RESTish APIs for a multi-tenant streaming platform. Develop customer- and enterprise-facing web server backends in Go, ensure web application security, and support highly available cloud systems. Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and improve performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability across global services. The role requires experience with high-traffic web services, distributed architectures, containers, and CDNs.