Backend Jobs in United States
There are 5,598 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
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | year | $165,850 | $192,050 | $215,000 | 1,417 |
| USD | hour | $62 | $69 | $76 | 28 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- api 43%
- cloud 41%
- ai 38%
- python 35%
- aws 32%
- java 32%
- distributed-systems 24%
- kubernetes 22%
How the work is done
- Remote 839 · 15%
- Hybrid 730 · 13%
- Onsite 357 · 6%
Visa sponsorship offered in 38% of the 1,573 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 3,107
- Lead 430
- Staff 392
- Principal 99
- Middle 54
- C-level 38
Who is hiring
- 501-1000 employees 918
- 1000+ employees 908
- 51-200 employees 590
- 11-50 employees 285
- 201-500 employees 46
- 1-10 employees 15
Senior Backend Engineer
About Teleport Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it. Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. We're solving one of the hardest problems in security: giving every human, machine,…
Senior Backend Engineer, Exchange Core
About Polymarket Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current…
Senior Backend Engineer, US Exchange
You will build and scale core exchange infrastructure, designing and implementing scalable, low-latency backend services using C/C++ or other performance-oriented systems languages. You will profile, tune, and debug…
Cloud Software Engineer, Backend - Enterprise
Headquartered in the United States, TP-Link Systems Inc. is a global provider of reliable networking devices and smart home products, consistently ranked as the world’s top provider of Wi-Fi devices. The company is…
Staff Cloud Software Engineer, Backend - Enterprise
About Us: Headquartered in the United States, TP-Link Systems Inc. is a global provider of reliable networking devices and smart home products, consistently ranked as the world’s top provider of Wi-Fi devices. The…
Senior Backend Engineer
About Clarion At Clarion, we’re rebuilding how healthcare communicates in the age of AI. Today, clinics miss 30–40% of patient calls, while staff are overwhelmed by administrative work. We believe AI agents should…
Senior Cloud Software Engineer, Backend - Enterprise
About Us: Headquartered in the United States, TP-Link Systems Inc. is a global provider of reliable networking devices and smart home products, consistently ranked as the world’s top provider of Wi-Fi devices. The…
Staff Backend Engineer
About Giga Giga has recently raised a $61M Series A and has several paying customers, including DoorDash. We’re building the next generation of customer experience — real-time AI agents that can understand emotion,…
Staff Backend Engineer
About Giga Giga has recently raised a $61M Series A and has several paying customers, including DoorDash. We’re building the next generation of customer experience — real-time AI agents that can understand emotion,…
Senior Backend Engineer
About Bevel Bevel is an AI Health Companion that helps people make smarter decisions about their health every day. Our app brings together data across sleep, recovery, activity, nutrition, and more, and turns it into…
Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI)
About the Team The Cooperative AI team is scaling OpenAI with OpenAI. We are building a model powered knowledge system that evolves and learns as our products, systems and customers evolve. We leverage our state of the…
Backend Engineer - Infrastructure
About HeyGen At HeyGen, our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade, visual content has become the preferred method of information creation, consumption, and retention. But the…
Backend Engineer (Remote)
About Soulside Soulside AI is transforming how behavioral health organizations operate, unlocking massive efficiency gains through AI. Our platform cuts documentation time by 80%—turning 3+ hours of daily paperwork…
Senior Backend Engineer
The Revi Mission 🚀 Brick and mortar is not dead but drastically changing, and Revi is leading that change into the future. 31 years ago, Web 1.0 started and it gave people the ability to click hyperlinks and read…
Backend Product Engineer
Monaco is building an AI-native revenue platform that replaces the fragmented GTM stack - CRM, sequencing, call recording, enrichment, pipeline management with one unified system, consolidating 6–10 disconnected tools…
Software Engineer, Backend
Profound is the marketing platform for the age of AI search. The way brands reach people is being rewritten — AI models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode are now the answer layer between companies and their…
Senior Backend Engineer - Platform & Infrastructure
Prismatic is the integration platform that helps B2B software companies build integrations fast and deliver them at scale. We're turning integrations from a bottleneck into a growth driver for hundreds of…