Backend Jobs in United States

There are 5,620 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 779 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are api, cloud and ai.

Salary

CurrencyPeriod25thMedian75thPostings
USDyear$166,500$192,050$215,0501,397
USDhour$62$69$7628

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 736 · 13%
  • Onsite 362 · 6%

Visa sponsorship offered in 39% of the 1,593 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

  • Senior 3,092
  • Lead 433
  • Staff 396
  • Principal 105
  • Middle 47
  • C-level 41

Who is hiring

  • 501-1000 employees 920
  • 1000+ employees 914
  • 51-200 employees 584
  • 11-50 employees 284
  • 201-500 employees 45
  • 1-10 employees 14
5,620 jobs
Lockheed Martin
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Linux, C/C++, TS/SCI Clearance

Open 30d North AmericaSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Develops mission-critical software for national security using C/C++ and TypeScript in a Linux environment, requiring TS/SCI clearance.

Analytics Data Analytics TypeScript
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Jobgether
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, Cloud-Native and Scalable

Open 30d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Design and build high-performance backend services in Go, run distributed systems on Kubernetes, and shape scalable cloud-native architecture for enterprise applications.

Cloud Cloud Native Distributed Systems Go Kubernetes
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D.R. Horton
last month

Senior Backend Engineer: High-Scale APIs & Distributed Systems

Open 30d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds scalable backend services and APIs in Java, Python, or JavaScript to power core business applications.

API CI/CD Java JavaScript Python
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Bristol-Myers Squibb
last month

Backend Engineering Manager, Field Platform — Hybrid

Open 30d HybridNorth America
United States

Lead backend teams to design, build, and deploy scalable APIs, databases, and integrations for a global healthcare platform using CI/CD and AI prompt engineering.

AI API CI/CD Prompt Engineering
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LVT
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Node.js/TypeScript, Microservices

Open 30d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable Node.js/TypeScript microservices and APIs for an AI-driven platform, optimizing performance and CI/CD pipelines.

AI API CI/CD Cloud DevOps +1 skills
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Oracle
last month

Principal Backend Developer - Clinical Applications

Open 24d North AmericaPrincipal
United States

Designs and builds backend services for a next-gen EHR platform that modernizes clinical workflows, provider inbox management, and secure messaging.

Oracle
Remedy Scientific
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Impactful Climate Tech & Equity

Open 31d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer at a climate-tech startup building core systems, APIs, and data workflows while also contributing to frontend features and product interfaces.
Cloud Hybrid Technologies, LLC
last month

Java Backend Engineer — Spring Boot, GraphQL, Microservices

Open 31d North America H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Builds and maintains high-performance Java microservices using Spring Boot and GraphQL, managing databases (MongoDB, DB2, PostgreSQL) and deploying on AWS for scalable, secure cloud architectures.

API AWS Cloud Db2 GraphQL +5 skills
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SageSure
last month

Senior Backend Engineer: API & Microservices, Remote

Open 31d North AmericaSenior
United States

Own and evolve backend services for post-bind policyholder workflows like onboarding and inspections on a microservices-based SaaS platform.

API AWS Microservices SaaS
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Jobgether
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time AI Platform (Remote)

Open 31d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer builds high-performance microservices in TypeScript/Node.js for a real-time AI platform, designing scalable APIs and distributed systems.

AI API Microservices Node.js REST +1 skills
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Pearson
last month

Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud & Distributed Systems

Open 31d North AmericaSenior Licensed UK sponsor — This employer appears on the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker and related work routes. The licence belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Senior backend engineer building and scaling cloud-native, distributed systems on AWS for Pearson’s education platform, leading architecture and reliability improvements.

AWS Cloud Cloud Native
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Expedia Group
last month

Backend Software Development Engineer

Open 24d North AmericaFull-time
United States

Backend Software Development Engineer II Location: Washington - Seattle Campus Time Type: Full time Job Description At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel…

Agile AI API Api Design CI/CD +10 skills
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J.P. Morgan
last month

Senior Lead Software Engineer - Backend Java

Open 23d North AmericaLead
United States

Lead backend Java development for J.P. Morgan’s Consumer and Community Banking tech products, guiding an agile team to build and enhance trusted financial systems.
Talentum, Inc.
last month

Senior QA Engineer - Manual & Backend, Onsite in San Jose

Open 31d On-siteNorth AmericaSenior
United States

A mid-senior QA Engineer tests backend systems and enterprise products manually, collaborating with engineering and product teams to ensure software quality and improve metrics in a fast-paced startup.

Distributed Systems
Filevine
last month

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) (San Francisco)

Open 31d North AmericaContractSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Senior backend engineer building AI-powered legal workflows that review contracts in Word and the browser using retrieval, RAG, and multi-step pipelines.

Agentic AI AI Cloud Embeddings LLM +5 skills
160 000 – 180 000 $
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Jobgether
last month

Java Backend Developer

Open 24d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeMiddle
United States

Mid-Level Developer (Java/Backend) Team: IT Location: US Commitment: Full-time Workplace Type: remote This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is…

Agile AI Analytics API Api Design +43 skills
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Famous Smoke Shop
last month

E-Commerce Back-End Developer

Open 23d North AmericaFull-time
United States

Builds and maintains the back-end of an e-commerce platform using Magento 2/Adobe Commerce, PHP, MySQL, and APIs.

API E-commerce MySQL PHP
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NICE
last month

Senior Software Engineer, Backend & Data Platforms

Open 24d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Sr Software Engineer, Backend & Data Platforms (Mobius Team) Location: USA - Atlanta, GA Department: CX - R&D Engineering At NiCE, we don’t limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We’re…

AI Analytics CI/CD Cloud C# +10 skills
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Nuro
last month

Routing Systems Engineer — Real-Time Backend & AI (Mountain View)

Open 31d North America H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Build and scale real-time routing backend systems for autonomous vehicles using C++ and cloud services, optimizing algorithms for efficiency and user experience.

Cloud C++
145 000 – 219 000 $
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WebMD LLC
last month

Principal AI-Native Architect for Backend & Data (Newark)

Open 31d North AmericaPrincipal H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Principal Architect designs and implements AI-native backend systems, data pipelines, and LLM services for WebMD Ignite, ensuring healthcare data privacy and cloud scalability.

AI Cloud Data Pipelines LLM
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