Backend Jobs in United States

There are 5,621 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 781 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$70$7827

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 860 · 15%
  • Hybrid 736 · 13%
  • Onsite 361 · 6%

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

Seniority

  • Senior 3,093
  • 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
5,621 jobs
S&P Global
last month

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Open 32d 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.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 at Kensho (S&P Global) builds and maintains AI-powered APIs for document processing, integrating proprietary financial data with LLM systems in Python and cloud-native tools.

Agentic AI AI API AWS Claude Code +21 skills
150 000 – 225 000 $
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Flex group
last month

Remote Senior Backend Engineer – FinTech Platform

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer at a New York FinTech company building and scaling payment, billing, and identity services using Java, Spring, and AWS.

Agile API AWS CI/CD Data Pipelines +3 skills
150 000 – 200 000 $
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GoTo Meeting
last month

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Open 32d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer building and maintaining security-focused infrastructure and automation in AWS, including CI/CD security controls, shared libraries, and compliance with CMMC/NIST standards.

Agile API Argo CD Authentication Automation +23 skills
171 000 – 202 500 $
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Ironbeam, Inc.
last month

Senior Backend Software Engineer/Java Trading Systems-remote

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Java engineer building and maintaining low-latency trading and market-data systems, including exchange connectivity, clearing workflows, and regulatory reporting for a financial-infrastructure company.

API Cloud Data Ingestion Distributed Systems Java +4 skills
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Affirm
last month

Senior Backend Engineer, Traffic Mesh (Remote)

Open 32d RemoteNorth 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

Senior Backend Engineer at Affirm in Dallas, TX, building and scaling high-availability systems using Python, Kotlin, and Kubernetes while leading a team.

Kotlin Kubernetes Python
169 000 – 240 000 $
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Okta
last month

Staff Backend Engineer, AI-Core Platform

Open 32d North AmericaStaff 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

Designs and builds a scalable backend platform for agentic AI systems, focusing on identity and secure execution, using Python or TypeScript.

Agentic AI AI Machine Learning Okta Python +1 skills
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JPMorgan Chase
last month

Senior Java Backend Engineer — AI‑Driven, Low‑Latency

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Java backend engineer building low-latency systems with AI-assisted practices at JPMorgan Chase in Houston.

AI Java
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The Judge Group
last month

Principal Backend Engineer - C++ for Real-Time Ad Systems

Open 32d 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 backend engineer builds and optimizes C++ services for real-time video ad platforms, focusing on performance and distributed systems in a hybrid work setup.

C++ Distributed Systems Docker Kubernetes Linux +1 skills
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MoFlo
last month

Security & Backend Operations Engineer

Open 32d North America
United States

This role focuses on auditing and improving security practices, implementing compliance standards, and setting up monitoring systems for a company's applications.

Authentication AWS Cloud Cloud Security Cybersecurity +3 skills
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Capital One
last month

Senior Lead Backend Engineer - ML Platform & Cloud

Open 32d North AmericaLead
United States

Leads backend engineering for a machine-learning platform that supports data scientists and engineers, building and scaling cloud-native microservices for Capital One's customer-facing systems.

Cloud Cloud Native Machine Learning Microservices
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Randstad Digital Americas
last month

Senior Java Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native Microservices

Open 32d North AmericaContractSenior
United States

Designs and builds scalable Java 17+ microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, and databases for a contract role in Sunnyvale, CA.

AI API CI/CD GraphQL Java +2 skills
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Ironbeam, Inc.
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time Trading Systems

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Java engineer building and maintaining backend services and APIs for real-time trading and market data systems in a regulated financial environment.

API Java REST
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Capital One
last month

Lead Backend Engineer: Java/Scala on AWS

Open 32d North AmericaLead
United States

Lead a team building cloud-based travel platform services in Java/Scala on AWS, designing scalable distributed systems for Capital One.

Cloud Distributed Systems Java Scala
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Payva
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Fintech API & Scale

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer at a Minneapolis fintech startup building and scaling core lending-platform APIs and services.

API Api Design Data Modeling Fintech
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Quinnox
last month

Senior Java Backend Engineer: Modernize & Integrate Systems

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Java backend engineer in New York modernizing legacy systems, integrating enterprise platforms, and building resilient distributed services using Java and Spring.

Java Spring
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Grow Therapy
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Build Scalable Care Platform

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds backend systems for a mental healthcare platform that connects clients and providers, ensuring reliability and scalability.

Data Quality
Tapestry
last month

Senior Backend Engineer: Productivity & Infra (Hybrid)

Open 32d 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

Builds and maintains an automated, secure platform for scalable code deployment, using Python, Go, Java, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes to improve developer productivity.

Cloud Containerization Docker GCP Java +2 skills
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CCS INC
last month

Senior Go Backend Engineer: Microservices & Scale

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs, builds, and scales Go-based microservices while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, observable, and high-performance backend systems.

Agile DevOps Microservices Observability
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Capital One
last month

Senior Backend Engineer – Enterprise Platform Tech

Open 32d North AmericaSenior
United States

Leads a team of engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable, compliant backend services for Capital One’s enterprise platform using Java, Python, SQL, Node.js, Go, or Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

AWS Cloud Docker Java Kubernetes +5 skills
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OnValue
last month

Senior Java Spring Backend Engineer

Open 32d North AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable Java Spring applications and microservices in a fast-paced IT services environment.

API Cloud Java Microservices REST +1 skills
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