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
TikTok
last month

Backend Engineer, Live Content Governance Platform

Open 33d North America
United States

Backend engineer building and optimizing TikTok’s live content governance systems, working with product and data teams to enforce safety and compliance at scale.
U.S. Bank
last month

Mobile Backend Engineer for Scalable Fintech Apps

Open 33d HybridNorth America
United States

Builds and maintains backend systems that power mobile apps for a major U.S. bank, focusing on scalable fintech solutions.
bet365 Group
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Hybrid Sports Platform

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds high-performance backend services for a US-focused sports betting platform, using Go or Rust, Kubernetes, and GCP in a hybrid work model.

Agile GCP Kubernetes Rust
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UnitedHealth Group
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud Identity Platform

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds secure, multi-tenant backend services for identity and access management using Java/Spring Boot and OAuth/OIDC/SAML on AWS.

Agile AWS Java OAuth OpenID +2 skills
150 000 – 200 000 $
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Optomi
last month

Backend Engineer (Java/GCP) — Delivery Optimization

Open 33d RemoteNorth America
United States

Backend engineer builds and optimizes delivery logistics systems using Java and Google Cloud Spanner to improve customer delivery experiences for a home improvement company.

Cloud GCP Java
90 000 – 120 000 $
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Loopscale
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Rust, Blockchain, NYC

Open 33d North AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer builds and maintains high-performance, scalable backend systems for a fintech startup using Rust and cloud technologies.

160 000 – 220 000 $
Fin
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Scale Global Payments

Open 33d North AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer builds and maintains core payment-processing services in a global fintech platform, using TypeScript and Node.js to ensure scalable, reliable transaction flows.

Node.js TypeScript
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TechDigital Group
last month

Azure Backend Engineer: Microservices & Spring Boot

Open 33d North America
United States

Designs and builds scalable back-end services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices patterns, deploying on Azure with middleware integrations.

Azure Design Patterns J2EE Java Microservices +1 skills
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Capital One
last month

Senior Backend Engineering Lead – Data & Analytics

Open 33d North AmericaLead
United States

Leads backend engineering for finance data and analytics at a major bank, designing systems that power financial reporting and decision-making with strong collaboration across leadership.

Analytics Data Analytics
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Sunbit, Inc.
last month

Sr. Backend Engineer Jersey City

Open 33d 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

Designs and builds backend systems for Sunbit’s call-center platform, integrating AI-driven tools to improve agent efficiency and customer service in a fintech environment.

AI Automation Fintech Java Kafka +10 skills
160 000 – 190 000 $
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Vanta Backed by Y Combinator
last month

Senior Identity Backend Engineer: Scale & Security

Open 33d 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

Senior backend engineer building and scaling identity and authentication systems to secure customer data for businesses.

Authentication Distributed Systems
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Comun
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Fintech for Immigrant Mobility

Open 33d 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 scales banking features for a fintech platform serving Hispanic immigrants, using Python and Postgres to enhance financial services.

PostgreSQL Python
120 000 – 160 000 $
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Visa
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Platform at Scale

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds global payment-processing software using Java and C++ at Visa’s Bellevue office.

C++ Java
110 700 – 171 800 $
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Ro
last month

Senior Backend Engineer for Scalable Healthcare Platform

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and maintains scalable backend services for a healthcare platform using Python and FastAPI, ensuring high performance and reliability.

Distributed Systems FastAPI Python
182 300 – 220 000 $
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Databricks Inc.
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable Cloud Platform

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Builds and scales backend infrastructure for a data and AI platform, focusing on serverless systems and machine learning technologies using Java or Scala.

AI Databricks Java Machine Learning Scala +1 skills
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Citi
last month

Senior Java Backend Engineer - Hybrid, Microservices

Open 33d North AmericaFull-timeSenior 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 Java backend engineer building scalable microservices for Citi’s capital markets and risk systems using Java, Kafka, and cloud-native tools.

Accessibility Agile AI Bitbucket CI/CD +21 skills
94 300 – 141 500 $
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Nutanix
last month

Platform Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

Open 33d HybridNorth America
United States

Designs and maintains high-performance distributed backend systems for a data platform, focusing on resilience and scalability using AWS and Python.

AWS Python
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Brex Backed by Y Combinator
last month

Senior Backend Engineer, FinTech Scale & Impact

Open 33d HybridNorth 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 Brex in New York building financial software products, collaborating across teams to meet customer needs with a hybrid schedule.

192 000 – 240 000 $
Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC
last month

.NET Backend Engineer — Scale & Deliver

Open 33d North America
United States

Designs and maintains backend services for vehicle and energy order processing using .NET, microservices, and SQL databases.

Microservices MySQL OOP PostgreSQL
110 000 – 140 000 $
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Ether
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - On-Chain & Scalable Crypto

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer builds scalable blockchain infrastructure for a New York-based crypto company, focusing on on-chain banking systems and core backend architecture.

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