Backend Jobs in United States
There are 5,596 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 772 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 | $165,925 | $192,050 | $215,000 | 1,419 |
| 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 840 · 15%
- Hybrid 730 · 13%
- Onsite 357 · 6%
Visa sponsorship offered in 38% of the 1,572 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 3,104
- Lead 430
- Staff 391
- Principal 100
- Middle 53
- C-level 38
Who is hiring
- 501-1000 employees 918
- 1000+ employees 907
- 51-200 employees 590
- 11-50 employees 285
- 201-500 employees 46
- 1-10 employees 15
Member of Technical Staff (Backend Engineering)
Krew is on a mission to transform credit-servicing with the industry’s most advanced AI credit-servicing agents. We are backed by Long Journey Ventures (Arielle Zuckerberg, Pascal Levy-Garboua), and strategic angels…
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
What we do Adaptive is a vertical AI company of 50, building the agentic operating system for the $2 trillion U.S. construction industry. We work with over 1,000 customers, partner with over 50 accounting firms, and…
Senior AI Serving Engineer, Backend
Sciforium is an AI infrastructure company developing next-generation multimodal AI models and a proprietary, high-efficiency serving platform. Backed by multi-million-dollar funding and direct sponsorship from AMD with…
Backend Software Engineer
New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves…
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - IT Product
About the IT Product Team The IT Product Engineering team is critical to unifying Rippling's workforce management system, bridging the gap between HR and traditional IT administration. Our mission is to build…
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform
About the Platform Team The Platform Engineering team is the invisible engine that powers all of Rippling's integrated products—HR, IT, and Finance. Our mission is to build the core infrastructure, tools, and…
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - HR Product
About the HR Product Team The HR Product Engineering team is the foundational layer of Rippling's unified workforce management system. Our mission is to build seamless, global, and compliant systems that power the…
Software Engineer II, Backend - Platform Team
About the Platform Team The Platform Engineering team is the invisible engine that powers all of Rippling's integrated products—HR, IT, and Finance. Our mission is to build the core infrastructure, tools, and…
Senior Software Engineer | Backend
About Dusk Dusk delivers the capabilities of a world-class entertainment director, at a fraction of the cost. Made for modern venue operators to save time, improve operations, and boost revenue. Trusted by 500+ bars,…
Software Engineer - Back End (London)
About Edra Edra is solving one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI: AI models are generic but company processes are specific. We build AI agents that learn how processes actually run, and then run their…
Senior Backend Engineer
👶 About Junior We're building cutting-edge LLM-powered tools that supercharge investment research for the world's most demanding deal teams. Our clients include several of the top 10 global private equity…
Senior Backend Engineer
About the role We’re looking for a top‑tier Backend Engineer to join our tech team and work hand‑in‑hand with our CTO, Denis Charrier, and the rest of the tech team. Your core responsibilities will be to: Build and…
Staff Backend Engineer
About the role We’re looking for a top‑tier Staff Backend Engineer to join our tech team. You’ll wear many hats. Your core responsibilities will be to: Design internet‑scale, high‑performance infrastructure Build…
Principal Back-end Developer - Dallas, TX
The Value You Deliver Design and build a quality solution which aligns with the technology blueprint and standard processes. Solving the business solutions by working closely with the architects and giving highly to…
Staff Backend Engineer
Location: Remote (North America) or Austin, TX Employment Type: Full-time (no contractors) Department: Engineering Why now Hamming automates QA for voice AI agents. Everyone is building voice agents. We secure them. In…
Backend Engineer - Known
About the Role You’ll be a core technical founder building the backend systems and infrastructure that power Known - from the APIs that will serve millions of requests, to the real-time communication pipelines that…