Backend Jobs in United States
There are 5,634 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 772 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 | $166,500 | $192,050 | $215,050 | 1,397 |
| USD | hour | $62 | $69 | $76 | 28 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- api 44%
- cloud 42%
- ai 38%
- python 35%
- aws 33%
- java 32%
- distributed-systems 24%
- kubernetes 23%
How the work is done
- Remote 859 · 15%
- Hybrid 741 · 13%
- Onsite 362 · 6%
Visa sponsorship offered in 39% of the 1,596 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 3,104
- Lead 432
- Staff 393
- Principal 104
- Middle 49
- C-level 43
Who is hiring
- 501-1000 employees 925
- 1000+ employees 914
- 51-200 employees 585
- 11-50 employees 285
- 201-500 employees 46
- 1-10 employees 14
Senior Backend Engineer, AI Finance — NYC On-site
Senior backend engineer building AI-driven finance automation for order-to-cash and reporting workflows, integrating LLM pipelines with customer-facing systems.
Staff Backend Engineer: AI Platform & Scalable Systems
Architect and build distributed backend systems for an AI agent platform, focusing on event-driven services, APIs, and scalability for enterprise use.
Senior Backend Engineer (Go/AWS) — Hybrid
Senior Backend Engineer builds and maintains Go and AWS-based services for client projects, mentors engineers, and shapes technical direction.
Senior Frontend Engineer: Grow Backend Skills & Drive Impact
Build and maintain React/TypeScript front-end features with a Rails-backed API, using MUI and PostgreSQL, while expanding backend skills in a fintech SaaS environment.
Backend Developer
Build and maintain secure backend systems for U.S. Navy aviation logistics using Java, C/C++, and JBoss in a DoD environment.
Backend Developer Senior 564
Senior backend developer building enterprise-scale cloud services and geospatial systems for government clients, using Java/Python and AWS with DevSecOps and Agile practices.
Backend Developer SME 630
Senior backend engineer leading cloud-native, geospatial systems for government clients, modernizing legacy stacks with Python/Java, AWS serverless, and DevSecOps pipelines.
Principal Engineer, Backend Engineering (Remote)
Principal Engineer at Atlassian building the AI proxy platform that routes, secures, and optimizes AI traffic with sub-second latency, cost controls, and context integration across internal tools.
Back-End Developer (Node.js / Microsoft SQL Server)
About Flexi Flexi Software is a 30+ year-old enterprise software company building commercial accounting applications for both cloud and on-premises deployment. Our customers run their financial operations on our…
Java Backend Developer
Senior Java developer building AI/ML services with Spring and microservices, deploying on cloud and CI/CD pipelines.
Senior ML Infra Engineer — Real-Time Backend & Scale
Architect and build backend services for a real-time ML-based threat detection engine, scaling infrastructure tenfold while collaborating with ML engineers and mentoring junior staff.