Backend Jobs in United States

There are 5,622 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$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 860 · 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 3,093
  • 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
5,622 jobs
hackajob Backed by Techstars
last month

Lead Backend Engineer - Scalable Receivables Platform

Open 33d North AmericaLead
United States

Lead a backend team building and scaling an automated receivables platform using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud technologies.

Cloud Java Spring
170 000 – 230 000 $
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Duolingo
last month

Lead Backend Engineer, Score Platform & Proficiency

Open 33d North AmericaLead 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

Lead a small backend team building scoring and proficiency systems for Duolingo’s app, owning services, infrastructure, and technical direction to deliver features for 500M+ learners.
Luxoft
last month

Senior Markets Backend Engineer - Java/Spring

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer building and modernizing financial trading systems in Java/Spring, focusing on auctions, trading, and rates production for capital markets.

API Java Spring
120 000 – 160 000 $
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ACME IT Corp.
last month

Senior Backend Engineer & Technical Lead

Open 33d North AmericaLead
United States

Lead backend engineering and development teams to build software products for a Maryland-based veteran-owned small business, focusing on system architecture and user requirements.
Snap eHealth
last month

Backend Engineer (Clojure)

Open 33d North America
United States

Builds and maintains healthcare data APIs and integrations using Clojure and Datomic Cloud to enable patient-provider communication and preventative care tracking.

Analytics API Clojure Cloud Data Analytics
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Tubi
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Elixir & Microservices

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds high-performance backend services in Elixir and microservices architecture, optimizing systems and collaborating with cross-functional teams at a streaming platform.

AI Elixir Kubernetes
186 400 – 266 300 $
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CHAMP Backed by Y Combinator
last month

Sr. Backend Engineer

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer builds and maintains cloud-based government motor-vehicle systems in Java/Spring Boot, integrating with DMV platforms and handling sensitive data.

Agile API Api Design AWS Cloud +22 skills
120 000 – 160 000 $
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Shipt, Inc.
last month

Senior Checkout Backend Engineer

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer at Shipt’s Birmingham office builds and maintains checkout systems using Golang and Python, collaborating with product and ops teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Go Python
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Cacheflow
last month

Sr. Backend Engineer, Infrastructure team

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Build and maintain backend platform services and cloud infrastructure for a fintech company, using Go, Python, Kubernetes, and Terraform to enable secure, scalable financial products.

AI Argo CD Authentication AWS Azure +25 skills
150 000 – 200 000 $
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Fastly
last month

Senior Growth Backend Engineer

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 and APIs to drive customer growth for Fastly's product portfolio, collaborating with product and platform teams and mentoring colleagues.
Vibe Backed by Y Combinator
last month

Backend Engineer, Integrations

Open 33d North America
United States

Build and ship integrations with external platforms, CRMs, and data partners while developing Vibe's public API and developer platform in TypeScript, Python, and AWS.

AI API Authentication AWS Cloud +11 skills
196 000 – 265 000 $
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Otter.ai
last month

Activation & Growth Backend Engineer

Open 33d 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 backend systems for user onboarding and sharing features at a voice-transcription SaaS company using Python and Django.

AI Django Python
136 000 – 185 000 $
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Charged Monkey
last month

Senior Test Automation Backend Engineer

Open 33d Europe, North AmericaSenior

Senior backend engineer at a game studio building a new cross-platform MMO/strategy title; designs and runs automated performance, load, and reliability tests for AWS-hosted game servers using Python, CI/CD, and observability tools.

Agentic AI Agile AI API Api Design +24 skills
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CrowdStrike
last month

Sr. Backend Engineer (Hybrid, NYC)

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 CrowdStrike in NYC designs and scales distributed systems for real-time cybersecurity detection, using Go, Kafka, and cloud infrastructure to process trillions of events daily.

AI Ai Enablement AWS Azure Cassandra +20 skills
140 000 – 215 000 $
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Medium
last month

CAD Integrations Backend Engineer

Open 33d North America
United States

Builds backend services that integrate CAD platforms (Siemens NX, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Creo) with cloud-native AI workflows, automating engineering design data processing and product manufacturing.

AI API Autodesk Inventor Automation CAD +21 skills
110 000 – 175 000 $
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LiveRamp
last month

Sr. Backend Engineer - Activations

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 at LiveRamp building and optimizing high-scale data activation pipelines using Java/Scala, Spark, Kafka, and cloud platforms to deliver data collaboration solutions.

API AWS Azure Cloud Data Pipelines +12 skills
130 000 – 196 500 $
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Walmart
last month

Senior Backend Engineer (Java Microservices)

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds scalable, event-driven Java microservices for Walmart’s product catalog, integrating with downstream apps using Spring Boot, NoSQL, and Kubernetes.

CI/CD Docker Event Driven Architecture Generative AI Java +4 skills
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Foundation EGI
last month

CAD Integrations Backend Engineer

Open 33d North America
United States

Build backend services that integrate CAD platforms like Siemens NX, CATIA, and SOLIDWORKS with cloud-native AI workflows, automating engineering data processing and API development.

AI API Autodesk Inventor Automation CAD +20 skills
120 000 – 180 000 $
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Waymo
last month

Senior Backend Engineer, 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

Builds and secures backend systems for Waymo’s autonomous vehicle fleet, focusing on identity, encryption, and secure communications to manage vehicle profiles and transactions.

Authentication Cloud C++ Cryptography Java +2 skills
213 000 – 263 000 $
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DigiCert
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - 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 at DigiCert builds cryptographically secure identity and governance systems for AI agents, using Go/Rust, PKI, SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and cloud-native security tools.

Agentic AI AI Anthropic API Authentication +29 skills
150 000 – 175 000 $
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