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Backend Jobs in United States

There are 4,012 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,076 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are api, cloud and ai.

Salary

Currency	Period	25th	Median	75th	Postings
USD	year	$172,500	$197,500	$222,500	761
USD	hour	$42	$60	$72	21

From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.

Most requested skills

api 55%
cloud 46%
ai 46%
aws 40%
python 38%
java 34%
distributed-systems 29%
ci-cd 26%

How the work is done

Remote 709 · 18%
Hybrid 579 · 14%
Onsite 381 · 9%

Visa sponsorship offered in 41% of the 556 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

Senior 1,845
Staff 356
Lead 302
Principal 76
Middle 43
Junior 30

Who is hiring

1000+ employees 410
501-1000 employees 197
51-200 employees 118
11-50 employees 106
201-500 employees 32
1-10 employees 9

4K jobs

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Senior Backend Software Engineer

NewBe an early applicant North AmericaFull-timeSenior

Holokai, an early-stage startup building an enterprise platform for secure AI adoption (model access controls, governance, policy enforcement), seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for a hybrid Metro DC role to build APIs, a policy enforcement engine, an LLM model gateway, and agentic orchestration in TypeScript, Go, and Python on AWS and PostgreSQL.

Agentic AI AI API AWS Claude Code +20 skills

DSM-H Consulting

Lead Java Backend Developer - 403

NewBe an early applicant North AmericaLead

Lead Java backend developer working on complex, large-scale server-side applications in a hybrid Chicago role (2 days/week in office). Day to day: designing and deploying Java services (microservices, event-driven), mentoring engineers, and owning quality across AWS/Azure, SQL/NoSQL datastores, streaming, and CI/CD pipelines.

ActiveMQ Agile AI API Aurora +36 skills

Lead Backend Engineer

NewBe an early applicant RemoteNorth AmericaInternshipLead

WE ARE GAMEMAKERS Who we are: We are a diverse team of developers driven by a passion for our art, united by our core values and inspired by a culture of inclusivity to build amazing games that thrill players…

API Automation AWS CI/CD C++ +11 skills

Lead Backend Engineer

NewBe an early applicant RemoteNorth AmericaInternshipLead

WE ARE GAMEMAKERS Who we are: We are a diverse team of developers driven by a passion for our art, united by our core values and inspired by a culture of inclusivity to build amazing games that thrill players…

API Automation AWS CI/CD C++ +11 skills

Staff, Back-end engineer (Inventory Platform)

NewBe an early applicant North AmericaStaff

Company Introduction We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and…

Agile AWS Cassandra Cloud Distributed Systems +6 skills

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Open 30d RemoteWorldwide, North AmericaFull-timeSenior

Senior Backend Engineer at Flex, a fintech that lets renters split rent payments across the month. You'll design, build, and scale Java/Spring services and APIs for payments, billing, identity, and partner integrations on AWS, owning features from design through production rollout.

API Aurora Automation AWS CDK +21 skills

146K – 215K $

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Open 30d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff

Staff Backend Engineer at Flex, a fintech that lets renters split rent payments across the month. You'll design, build, and scale Java/Spring services on AWS powering payments, billing, identity, and partner integrations, set long-term architecture, and mentor engineers. Hybrid in NYC, SF, or Salt Lake City.

API Aurora Automation AWS CDK +22 skills

170K – 250K $

Staff, Backend Engineer

NewBe an early applicant RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff

Staff Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems, Platform ABOUT US Sequen provides an integrated platform that pairs cutting-edge frontier ranking models with the infrastructure to run them in production—at sub-25ms…

AI API Api Design Cloud Distributed Systems +11 skills

Junior Backend Developer

Open 119d RemoteNorth AmericaJunior

Develops and maintains backend systems using Java, GoLang, and Spring Boot, troubleshooting issues and improving code while working remotely.

AWS Go Infrastructure as Code Java OOP +2 skills

Senior Back End Developer

Open 119d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior

Senior Back End Developer builds and scales cloud-based accounting systems using Java and AWS services like CDK and Lambda for a multinational tech company.

AWS CDK Cloud Java Lambda

Principal Backend Engineer

Open 24d RemoteNorth AmericaContractPrincipal

Parallels is hiring a Principal Backend Engineer to define backend architecture, decompose a mature Django app into asynchronous microservices, own API and cloud strategy, and write the most critical system code while mentoring a team of 7-8 engineers. Core stack: Python, RabbitMQ/Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, containers, and CI/CD.

Agentic AI Agile AI API Azure +23 skills

Staff Backend Software Engineer - Agent Platform (Go/Python)

Open 74d RemoteNorth AmericaStaff H-1B sponsor history

Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency backend services in Java/Go for SentinelOne’s agent platform, handling millions of events per second to distribute policies and commands to security agents across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

AI Analytics Argo CD Automation AWS +22 skills

132K – 182K $

Hadrian Automation

All Levels: Backend Software Engineer

NewBe an early applicant On-siteNorth AmericaFull-time

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining…

API Automation CAD Cloud C++ +6 skills

Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

Open 125d RemoteNorth America, UKFull-timeStaff H-1B sponsor history

Build and improve GitLab’s internal developer tools and testing infrastructure using Ruby and Go, reducing friction in CI/CD pipelines and shaping engineering culture across globally distributed teams.

AI Automation CI/CD Developer Experience DevOps +7 skills

132K – 282K $

Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

Open 73d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history

Build AI-driven automation to validate software features across GitLab’s four deployment platforms, embedding platform-readiness checks into the DevSecOps workflow.

Agentic AI AI API Automation CI/CD +11 skills

Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity

Open 70d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history

Senior Backend Engineer builds AI-powered automation to remove friction in software development workflows, diagnosing and resolving issues like slow code reviews and manual releases using reliable agentic systems in Go/Rust/Python.

Agentic AI AI Automation DevSecOps Distributed Systems +5 skills

Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity

Open 70d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff H-1B sponsor history

Staff Backend Engineer defining and building agentic systems to automate parts of GitLab’s DevSecOps workflow while keeping humans in the loop, using Go/Rust/Python.

Agentic AI AI DevSecOps Distributed Systems GitLab +6 skills

Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Engineering: DAP Repository Flows

Open 68d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff H-1B sponsor history

Staff Backend Engineer builds AI-powered automation for GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform, focusing on Ruby/Rails systems that onboard users and run autonomous agents on codebases.

Agentic AI AI Automation DevSecOps GitLab +5 skills

Intermediate Backend Engineer, AMER

Open 43d RemoteAPAC, North AmericaContract

Owns backend features end-to-end on GitLab's DevSecOps platform — designing, implementing, testing, and shipping APIs, data models, background jobs, and services in Ruby/Rails, Go, or similar, with code review, on-call duties, and daily AI-assisted workflows in a fully remote, asynchronous AMER team.

AI API CI/CD Cloud DevSecOps +11 skills

115K – 194K $

Staff Backend Engineer, Database Automation (Go)

Open 35d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff

Staff backend engineer on GitLab's Database Excellence group building Go-based automation for the full PostgreSQL lifecycle (provisioning, upgrades, failover, scaling) as an internal PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, operating at GitLab.com scale in a fully remote environment alongside Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and multi-cloud tooling.

Agentic AI AI Automation Cloud DevSecOps +8 skills

153K – 259K $