Backend Jobs in United States

There are 5,635 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 774 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are api, cloud and ai.

Salary

CurrencyPeriod25thMedian75thPostings
USDyear$166,500$192,050$215,0501,400
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 742 · 13%
  • Onsite 362 · 6%

Visa sponsorship offered in 39% of the 1,596 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

  • Senior 3,105
  • Lead 431
  • Staff 393
  • Principal 104
  • Middle 49
  • C-level 43

Who is hiring

  • 501-1000 employees 925
  • 1000+ employees 915
  • 51-200 employees 585
  • 11-50 employees 285
  • 201-500 employees 46
  • 1-10 employees 14
5,635 jobs
Swish Analytics
last month

Senior Backend Engineer: Low-Latency Microservices

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, builds, and optimizes low-latency microservices for predictive sports analytics APIs using Node.js and Python.

Analytics API Node.js Python
150 000 – 190 000 $
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Robin Hood Foundation
last month

Backend Engineer, Equities – Scale Fintech Platform

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 and maintains backend services for equities trading features in a consumer fintech app using modern stacks.
The New York Times
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable APIs & Cloud

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer at The New York Times building scalable APIs and cloud systems for the NYT Cooking platform, using Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Java.

API Api Design Java Ruby TypeScript
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Ridgeline, Inc.
last month

Senior Backend Engineer, Distributed Reporting Engine

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 Ridgeline building and scaling distributed reporting services, query engines, and data workflows in San Ramon, CA.

API Distributed Systems
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Weights & Biases
last month

Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Metrics Platform

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 to scale and optimize a metrics and storage platform for AI/ML model tracking, focusing on ingestion, storage, and querying at scale.

API Data Ingestion
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ZoomInfo Technologies LLC
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Integrations & Data Pipelines

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 maintaining integrations, data pipelines, and APIs for ZoomInfo’s platform, focusing on Salesforce and other third-party connections.

API Data Ingestion REST Salesforce Zoominfo
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Protolabs
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Pricing Systems (Hybrid)

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer designing and maintaining pricing systems that generate instant quotes for a manufacturing platform, using scalable backend technologies.
New Relic
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — High-Volume Telemetry & Alerts

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 New Relic designs and deploys high-volume telemetry and alerting services using Java/Kotlin, focusing on reliability and security in a hybrid Charleston, SC role.

Java Kotlin New Relic
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Poland and Eastern Europe
last month

Senior Backend Engineer – Fintech Microservices & Cloud

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer building and maintaining scalable microservices for a digital payments fintech using Java 17, Spring Boot, and cloud-native practices.

API BDD Cloud DevOps Fintech +4 skills
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New Relic
last month

Senior Backend Engineer - Observability & Alerts at Scale

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 scalable alerting systems in Java/Kotlin at New Relic’s Madison office, processing high-volume telemetry data.

Agile Java Kotlin New Relic
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Impiricus
last month

Director, Mobile & Backend Engineering (Remote)

Open 33d North America
United States

Leads mobile (iOS/Android) and backend engineering teams at a life-sciences tech company, setting architecture, standards, and processes while scaling secure, reliable systems.

AI Android iOS
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Turing
last month

Senior Backend Engineer – Excel Automation & Scaling

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer builds and scales a server-side Excel execution engine using Python and C++, automating macro-heavy workbooks via COM on Windows servers and ensuring reliable, auditable cloud storage.

Automation Cloud C++ DevOps Python
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Loop AI - Delivery Intelligence Platform
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Architecture & Impact

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds backend systems for a delivery intelligence platform using Python, Django, and PostgreSQL, while collaborating with customers to solve technical challenges.

Django PostgreSQL Python
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Canals
last month

Senior Backend Engineer — Remote (NA)

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer building scalable systems for a profitable startup that impacts global supply chains, working remotely across North America.
hackajob Backed by Techstars
last month

Cloud Backend Engineer: Build Scalable, Reliable Services

Open 33d North AmericaFull-time
United States

Designs and builds cloud-based backend services using AWS, troubleshoots performance issues, and optimizes workflows for a technology company in Sunnyvale.

AWS Cloud
110 733 – 166 100 $
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Covetus
last month

Senior Java Backend Engineer | Spring Boot & AWS

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds backend services in Java/Spring Boot on AWS for a hybrid role in Seattle, leveraging data structures and algorithms.

AWS Java Spring
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Possible
last month

Senior Backend Engineer, FinTech – Hybrid + Stock Options

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer designing and maintaining Java/Spring services for a consumer finance company, mentoring junior staff and leading projects.

Java Spring
175 720 – 191 000 $
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Storm2
last month

Senior Backend Engineer – FinTech Real-Time Systems

Open 33d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer building high-precision, reliable revenue systems for a fintech startup using cloud, distributed, and event-driven architectures.

Cloud Deep Learning Distributed Systems Event Driven Architecture Fintech
175 000 – 200 000 $
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Matic Robots
last month

Rust Backend Engineer for Internal Tools & Robotics

Open 33d North America
United States

Builds and scales internal tools and backend systems in Rust to improve manufacturing efficiency for a robotics company.
Branch
last month

Senior Platform Backend Engineer - Java Microservices

Open 33d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer building scalable Java microservices and RESTful APIs for a Minneapolis-based company.

API Java Microservices REST
160 000 – 170 000 $
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