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Backend Jobs in United States

There are 4,006 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,101 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	$172,500	$196,375	$222,000	756
USD	hour	$42	$65	$75	21

From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.

Most requested skills

api 55%
cloud 46%
ai 46%
aws 40%
python 38%
java 34%
distributed-systems 29%
ci-cd 26%

How the work is done

Remote 718 · 18%
Hybrid 574 · 14%
Onsite 385 · 10%

Visa sponsorship offered in 42% of the 553 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

Senior 1,837
Staff 363
Lead 297
Principal 76
Middle 42
Junior 29

Who is hiring

1000+ employees 404
501-1000 employees 194
51-200 employees 118
11-50 employees 106
201-500 employees 32
1-10 employees 9

4K jobs

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Software Development Engineer II- Back End

Open 120d Europe, North America

Builds backend services for geospatial processing and automation using Python, Node.js, and Java, integrating with ArcGIS Enterprise and cloud-native environments to support global-scale GIS solutions.

Agentic AI AI API Api Design ArcGIS +26 skills

RediRecruit Hiring Solutions

Senior Backend Engineer

New North AmericaFull-timeSenior

Senior Backend Engineer joining an early-stage team building data center monitoring and predictive-failure infrastructure software. Day to day: building and scaling distributed Go services on AWS, real-time sensor/event ingestion, multi-region high-availability architecture, APIs, data pipelines, and observability.

Analytics API AWS Cloud Containerization +13 skills

Volkswagen Group

Contract Software Engineer II - Backend

Open 82d North AmericaContract

Contract backend engineer at Electrify America (Volkswagen Group) independently delivering Java/Spring Boot features and bug fixes for EV charging infrastructure, working with REST APIs, Postgres, and MongoDB.

Accessibility Agile API CI/CD DevOps +6 skills

Senior Software Engineer - Linux Backend Systems

Open 39d On-siteNorth AmericaContractSenior

Job ID: 115048 Location: Germantown, MD Business Unit: DRS RADA Technologies Schedule: 9/80 Shift: First DRS RADA Technologies, a subsidiary of Leonardo DRS, is focused on proprietary radar solutions and legacy…

API Automation Bash CI/CD C++ +10 skills

Maintenance Spec 1C A Prob

Open 37d North AmericaFull-time

Onsite industrial Maintenance Specialist (Class 1) at Owens Corning's Summit, IL plant on 2nd/3rd shift. Day to day: installs, maintains, and repairs plant mechanical, structural, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical equipment — performing PMs, troubleshooting, and millwright/welding work. Pay $38.67/hr during probation, $39.17 after 60 days.

Near Miss Reporting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

39 – 39 $ / hr

Staff Tech Lead, Backend

Open 15d North AmericaFull-timeStaff

Staff-level backend tech lead (Software Engineer IV) on Grainger's Customer Order team in Chicago (hybrid), building the cart, order cost calculation (freight, pricing, tax), and payment/invoicing services behind Grainger.com's hundreds of thousands of daily orders. Work centers on scalable distributed systems, HTTP APIs, continuous delivery, and mentoring engineers.

Agile API CI/CD Scrum

134K – 224K $

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Open 15d North AmericaFull-timeSenior

Senior backend engineer on Grainger's Customer Order team, building and supporting the systems behind Grainger.com's cart, order cost calculation (freight, pricing, tax), and payment/invoicing at a scale of hundreds of thousands of orders per day. Work centers on scalable distributed services, HTTP APIs, and CI/CD in an Agile/DevOps environment, plus mentoring junior engineers.

Agile API CI/CD DevOps Scrum

113K – 188K $

Backend Python Developer

New North AmericaJunior

Entry-level backend Python developer at Emonics LLC in The Bronx, building Python applications, APIs, backend services, and automation scripts. Day-to-day work centers on Python with Django or Flask, SQL databases, Git, and REST APIs, plus troubleshooting application issues.

API Automation Django Flask Git +3 skills

Java Backend Developer /Backend Developer

New North AmericaFull-time

Lead backend development of Spring Boot microservices for a banking-domain system in Charlotte, NC (fully onsite): architect services, implement REST APIs and Kafka/RabbitMQ integrations, run Docker/Kubernetes deployments on cloud, ensure banking security compliance, and mentor junior engineers. Requires 10+ years of Java experience.

API AWS Azure Cloud Docker +20 skills

Tiltedge Solutions

Ai Backend Engineer

New North America

Senior/Lead backend engineer designing scalable services and LLM-powered AI agents (tool calling, prompt engineering, agentic workflows) with Node.js/TypeScript and/or Python, REST APIs, and microservices. Onsite in Rhode Island or Arizona; healthcare domain experience is mandatory, and the role leads and mentors an offshore engineering pod.

Agentic AI AI API AWS AWS Bedrock +21 skills

Backend Engineer

New On-siteNorth AmericaFull-time

Build and scale the backend services, APIs, and data pipelines powering Gallatin's AI-driven logistics platform for U.S. national security missions. Day-to-day work spans backend development in languages like Python/Node.js/TypeScript/Java, relational and NoSQL databases, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) from their El Segundo, CA office.

AI API Api Design AWS Azure +20 skills

Software Engineer, Back End (Software Engineer)

New On-siteNorth AmericaContract

Back End Software Engineer (100% on-site in Chantilly, VA) at Redwire, a space and defense technology company, building high-performance, systems-level backend software for National Security Space spacecraft programs — real-time simulation pipelines, GPU-accelerated computation, and graph data architectures using Python, C++/Rust, CUDA, and Neo4j-class tools. U.S. citizenship and clearance eligibi

API Automation CI/CD C++ CUDA +12 skills

102K – 140K $

Staff Backend Engineer (FDE)

New North AmericaFull-timeStaff

Staff backend engineer owning the application and API services layer of an AI platform for finance and accounting teams — multi-tenant APIs, auth/authz, review/approval workflows, and audit trails, deployable across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Core stack: Python (FastAPI/Django/Flask), PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.

AI AWS Azure GCP Machine Learning +1 skills

Backend Modernization Engineer III

New North America

Apex Systems is hiring a Backend Modernization Engineer for a 3-month onsite contract in Cincinnati, Ohio. The engineer designs application code, implements technical solutions, and configures applications across environments to meet business requirements.

Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

New HybridNorth AmericaSenior

Senior backend engineer at Uber Freight in Chicago (hybrid, 2 days WFH) who architects and develops scalable, maintainable services, leads complex projects end-to-end with cross-functional stakeholders, and mentors junior engineers. Core stack: Golang, Thrift, gRPC, MySQL, Redis, Bazel, with Grafana/ELK observability.

Angular Bash Data Science Distributed Systems ELK +8 skills

185K – 212K $

Senior SDET, Back End [Remote-US]

New RemoteNorth AmericaContractSenior

Senior backend SDET at Quanata, a State Farm-owned insurtech, owning test strategy and automation for insurance APIs, microservices, and distributed cloud-hosted services: building shared test frameworks, CI/CD quality checks, and validating business rules, data, and resilience.

AI API Automation CI/CD Cloud +4 skills

198K – 281K $

Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

Open 121d North AmericaInternshipJunior

Designs and maintains global-scale backend systems and APIs for Stripe’s financial infrastructure, handling billions of money movement requests daily.

Accessibility API AWS Cloud Docker +3 skills

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud Decisioning)

New RemoteNorth AmericaStaff

Staff backend engineer on Affirm's Fraud Decisioning team, leading large cross-functional initiatives to build and maintain systems that detect and prevent fraud. The role centers on system design, high-quality backend code, mentoring engineers, and partnering with Product, ML, and Analytics teams.

Analytics Machine Learning

181K – 241K CAD

Python Backend Developer with GIS and Analytics_Hybrid@Irving,TX

New North America

HPTech is hiring a Python backend developer with GIS and analytics skills (a Data Scientist / Analytics Engineer) to modernize and scale geospatial data systems on a Network Planning team. The role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week in one of four US office locations.

Analytics Data Science GIS Python

iMedhas Consulting Services

Senior Java Backend Engineer – Vert.x / Cassandra- 7 yrs- Phoenix, United States- Onsite

New North AmericaSenior

A senior backend engineer role building scalable Java-based backend services and RESTful APIs using Spring Boot, Vert.x, and Cassandra. The position is onsite in Phoenix, United States, requiring around 6-7 years of professional Java development experience.

API Cassandra Java REST Spring