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Backend Jobs in United States

There are 4,098 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 985 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are api, cloud and ai.

Salary

CurrencyPeriod25thMedian75thPostings
USDyear$173,285$196,750$222,000781
USDhour$37$60$7419

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

Most requested skills

  • api 55%
  • cloud 47%
  • ai 46%
  • aws 40%
  • python 38%
  • java 34%
  • distributed-systems 29%
  • kubernetes 26%

How the work is done

  • Remote 750 · 18%
  • Hybrid 607 · 15%
  • Onsite 399 · 10%

Visa sponsorship offered in 41% of the 557 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

  • Senior 1,844
  • Staff 378
  • Lead 291
  • Principal 81
  • Intern 47
  • Middle 44

Who is hiring

  • 1000+ employees 399
  • 501-1000 employees 186
  • 51-200 employees 115
  • 11-50 employees 100
  • 201-500 employees 31
  • 1-10 employees 10
4.1K jobs
HumanitApp
8 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js, TypeScript, Rust)

Open 17d North AmericaContractSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer (W-2 placement via staffing firm Cincinnatus LLC inside a large enterprise client's platform team) building high-scale, consumer-facing services and APIs in Node.js, TypeScript, and Rust, including REST/GraphQL integrations and generative AI capabilities, at 40 hours/week.

AI Analytics API CI/CD Generative AI +6 skills
50 – 80 $ / hr
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Gomyneed Private Limited
7 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Core AI Automation)

Open 17d North AmericaSenior
United States

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build agentic AI systems powering customer support and compliance automation — LLM orchestration, guardrails, and scalable Python/Golang backend infrastructure from design through production monitoring. Remote within the USA.

Agentic AI AI API Automation Data Pipelines +7 skills
186K – 219K $
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Gomyneed Private Limited
6 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional)

Open 17d North AmericaSenior
United States

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Remote, USA) to own services that take institutional clients from application to first trade — onboarding, KYC refresh, auto-provisioning, and the Organizations Service. Core stack: Go, gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.

AI Automation Generative AI gRPC Observability +1 skills
218K – 257K $
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greenlite-ai
6 views 3 weeks ago

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Open 17d North AmericaStaff
United States

Greenlite builds LLM-powered AI agents that help fintechs and banks automate compliance work like onboarding investigations, due diligence, and regulatory reporting. This onsite San Francisco backend engineer will build and scale the core platform with Next.js, Node, TypeScript, and Postgres while working closely with customers and founders.

AI Fintech LLM Next.js PostgreSQL +1 skills
120K – 200K $
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evenup
6 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Foundation

Open 17d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer at EvenUp architecting the core platform foundation — APIs, data export, and streaming infrastructure for high-throughput data flows — that other engineering teams build on. Hybrid role based in San Francisco or Toronto; needs 5+ years platform/infrastructure experience, strong SQL, and TypeScript/Python.

AI API Python SaaS SQL +1 skills
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RiseMe
6 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Open 17d North AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer on Grainger's Customer Order team, building the cart, order cost calculation (freight, pricing, tax), and payment/invoicing systems behind hundreds of thousands of daily orders on Grainger.com. Day-to-day involves full lifecycle design, coding, CI/CD, scaling distributed systems, and mentoring junior engineers.

Agile API CI/CD DevOps Scrum
113K – 188K $
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W. W. Grainger
10 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Open 17d North AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Senior backend software engineer at W.W. Grainger, a large MRO products distributor, working the full systems life cycle: designing, building, testing, and supporting scalable applications, implementing CI/CD, and mentoring junior engineers. Core focus areas are distributed systems design, HTTP APIs, and Agile/DevOps practices.

Agile API CI/CD DevOps Scrum
113K – 188K $
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happyrobot.ai
8 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Open 17d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer at HappyRobot (AI workforce platform) in San Francisco, designing, building, and operating scalable backend services and real-time infrastructure that powers voice-based AI workflows. Core stack is Go, with emphasis on reliability, observability, and frequent production shipping.

AI API Data Modeling Gdpr Observability
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Palantir Technologies
8 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Open 17d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer at Palantir designing and building scalable backend services, APIs, and technical foundations for large-scale enterprise data platforms. Day to day covers architecture design, reliability and performance work, troubleshooting production systems, and mentoring engineers.

API Distributed Systems
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Wag Labs, Inc.
10 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Open 17d North AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer owning Wag!'s core PHP/Laravel API, Python AWS Lambda services, and AWS infrastructure (Terraform, ECS, SQS), with heavy emphasis on building products and workflows with AI coding agents. Full-time, in-person 5 days a week in downtown Miami.

AI API AWS CI/CD Claude Code +20 skills
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7Seventy
8 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Open 17d North AmericaSenior
United States

A senior engineer who owns end-to-end delivery of high-impact backend features in Java Spring Boot — building, releasing, and maintaining reliable, scalable, high-traffic systems — while using Snowflake/cloud data warehouses and AI tools like Claude to accelerate development, and partnering with React/TypeScript frontend teams.

AI Cloud Java React Snowflake +2 skills
160K – 190K $
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Lambdanets Services LLC
6 views 3 weeks ago

Senior iOS Engineer — Hybrid Sunnyvale (Backend-Integrated)

Open 17d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior iOS engineer on a 6–12 month hybrid engagement in Sunnyvale, CA, owning iOS features end-to-end and integrating them with backend services and cloud infrastructure via REST/GraphQL APIs. Requires deep native iOS expertise plus broad software engineering experience.

API Cloud GraphQL iOS
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Mercury
15 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Product

Open 108d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer at Mercury building banking experiences for startups, using Haskell and SQL. Day-to-day involves product ownership, collaborating with designers/product leaders, and leveraging AI tools in development.

AI CAD Fintech Haskell SaaS +1 skills
167K – 208K $
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owner
9 views 3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Grader)

Open 117d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff
United States

Staff backend engineer owning Grader — Owner's free restaurant health-report product — end to end: building data pipelines that ingest third-party signals, async processing, and serving results reliably at scale while hardening observability and platform foundations. Stack: Node.js/TypeScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Datadog, Temporal. 100% remote in US/Canada.

Agentic AI AI AWS CRM Data Pipelines +9 skills
220K – 240K $
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laurel
23 views 3 weeks ago

Staff Backend Engineer (Digital Foot Print)

Open 58d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff
United States

Staff Backend Engineer at Laurel builds and optimizes AI-driven time-tracking systems for professional services firms, focusing on scalable backend architecture, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration to improve productivity and business outcomes.

AI Airflow AWS CI/CD Django +11 skills
251K – 275K $
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NTT America, Inc.
7 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Java Backend Developer (FTE / Hybrid)

Open 18d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

NTT DATA is hiring a Senior Java Backend Developer (full-time, hybrid, Charlotte, NC) to design, build, and maintain scalable enterprise backend services. Day to day involves Java/Spring Boot REST APIs and microservices, SQL database work, CI/CD, production support, and legacy application modernization.

Accessibility Agile AI API AWS +24 skills
97K – 145K $
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HumanitApp
10 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Node/TS/Rust for AI-Enabled Scale

Open 18d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer (placed via Cincinnatus LLC) on a platform team behind a high-scale consumer platform used by millions. Day to day: building services in Node.js, TypeScript, and Rust, shipping REST/GraphQL APIs through CI/CD, and integrating AI/ML capabilities while collaborating cross-functionally and mentoring peers.

AI Analytics API CI/CD GraphQL +4 skills
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Comcast (CC) of Willow Grove
5 views 3 weeks ago

Sr. C++ Backend Engineer - Hybrid 2 Days Reston, VA - FreeWheel

Open 18d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer designing, building, and optimizing FreeWheel's high-concurrency, low-latency video ad delivery platform, doing end-to-end development on AWS with Kubernetes and mentoring junior engineers. Core tech: C++ (or Go), Linux, and distributed systems handling billions of daily requests.

Agile Automation AWS Business Development Cloud +11 skills
142K – 213K $
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CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
6 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Security Platform

Open 18d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer at CrowdStrike in New York (hybrid) who designs and scales core services that ingest, process, and route security events across CrowdStrike products (NGSIEM, FCS, Endpoint). The role centers on building highly scalable microservices in Go, Java, and Python with Kubernetes, Kafka, and distributed databases, plus driving DCMP/CMS architecture and CI/CD tooling.

CI/CD Crowdstrike Java Kafka Kubernetes +2 skills
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Wag Labs, Inc.
7 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Powered Platform (Miami)

Open 18d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Backend Engineer at Wag (pet-care services platform) in downtown Miami: owns the core backend API, enhances cloud infrastructure, and builds AI-driven features at scale. Core stack is PHP/Laravel plus Python on AWS (ECS, Lambda, Terraform); on-site 5 days/week.

AI API AWS Cloud ECS +5 skills
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