Backend Jobs in United States
There are 5,598 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 773 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 842 · 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 3,105
- Lead 431
- 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
Backend Developer (Node.js, Python, FAST API) - TX, USA
Greetings Everyone Who are we? For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are…
Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop…
Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)
Empower the voices of the world @ Zencastr. If you want to push the world of podcasting into the future, come join a team who loves to live on the edge! We are a fully distributed team of smart people who are…
Senior Backend Engineer
About Orchestra Orchestra helps companies navigate the journey from discovery to medicine by connecting science, operations, and finance in an intelligent platform. We're on a mission to make every R&D dollar…

Backend Engineer
About Navier AI Navier AI is building the first autonomous engineering agents. AI systems that can design, simulate, and optimize complex products to achieve breakthrough levels of performance. Our mission is to enable…
Remote Backend SWE
We’re looking for a backend engineer who gets excited about building things that don’t exist yet. This is not a role for someone who only maintains or “tunes” existing systems — we need someone who can take a blank…
Backend Engineer
About Doss DOSS is building an Operations Cloud for the real world. A modern, AI-native platform for physical product businesses to manage the flow of goods, dollars, and data in real time, across: Procurement…
Founding Back-end Engineer
You will build and own high-scale data ingestion pipelines that synthesize on-chain and off-chain data in real time. You will implement internal and decentralized data storage, generate verifiable credentials, develop…
Back End Architect |US
We are seeking a seasoned Java Spring Boot Microservices Architect with a strong background in designing and building scalable, distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience architecting…

Backend Engineer
What You'll Do As a founding backend engineer at Peppr AI, you'll architect and build the robust infrastructure that powers our agentic AI platform. You'll design PostgreSQL-based systems, implement secure…
Senior Backend Engineer
About Daylight Daylight is the decentralized energy company. We're building a protocol that converts distributed solar and storage systems into yield-bearing infrastructure. These assets are deployed behind the…
Senior Backend Engineer
Join the team making life-saving drugs accessible The crisis: Sarah delayed cancer treatment for weeks facing $30,000 monthly costs. Marcus's autoimmune condition worsened while battling insurance denials. Over 50%…

Founding Backend Software Engineer
Rebolt is building the next-generation no-code platform that empowers companies to create and deploy custom full-stack applications in minute. Our mission is to enable both technical and non technical teams to replace…
Software Engineer - Backend
Company Overview Realm builds AI for the mining industry. We integrate with existing mine infrastructure — cameras, SCADA systems, drones, and data repositories — to predict equipment failures, detect unsafe behaviors,…

Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
About us ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets. Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit). Investors: Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most…
Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
About us ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets. Autonomous is an agentic wealth manager built on this foundation. Founders: Early GPU cloud (9…
Founding Backend Engineer (AI Focus) - Atrix
Breakthrough medicines all start the same way: years of research, mountains of data, and countless decisions made by medical teams within the world's premier biopharma labs. These decisions then determine which…
Staff Software Engineer - Backend
About Us Leona is on a mission to empower everyone to take the best care of themselves, their patients, and their loved ones. We have an ambitious goal: to transform the way the world interacts with healthcare, because…