Backend Jobs in United States

There are 5,669 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 776 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are api, cloud and ai.

Salary

CurrencyPeriod25thMedian75thPostings
USDyear$166,500$192,050$215,0251,403
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 22%

How the work is done

  • Remote 858 · 15%
  • Hybrid 746 · 13%
  • Onsite 359 · 6%

Visa sponsorship offered in 39% of the 1,600 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

  • Senior 3,122
  • Lead 438
  • Staff 394
  • Principal 104
  • Middle 51
  • C-level 43

Who is hiring

  • 501-1000 employees 926
  • 1000+ employees 920
  • 51-200 employees 587
  • 11-50 employees 285
  • 201-500 employees 46
  • 1-10 employees 15
5,669 jobs
Socket.dev Backed by a16z
3 weeks ago

Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable APIs & AI

Open 19d North AmericaSenior
United States

Builds and scales backend services and APIs for an AI-driven platform, focusing on reliability and performance for enterprise customers.

AI API Distributed Systems
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Socket.dev Backed by a16z
3 weeks ago

Go Backend Engineer – Own Features from Concept to Production

Open 19d North America
United States

Builds and owns backend services in Go for Walmart’s retail platform, deploying on Azure and driving scalable features from concept to production.

API Azure
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Blueface Ltd
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Video Streaming Platform

Open 19d North AmericaSenior
United States

Leads backend design for a video streaming platform, building scalable pipelines for content processing, API servers, and metadata delivery across devices in a Kubernetes cloud environment.

API AWS Cloud GCP Kubernetes
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Maven Backed by Y Combinator
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud-Scale Platform Leader

Open 19d 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 Maven Clinic building and scaling cloud-based healthcare platforms that support virtual care for women and families.

195 000 – 230 000 $
Comcast
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Video Streaming

Open 19d North AmericaSenior
United States

Design and build backend systems for a large-scale video streaming platform, including APIs, data layers, and scalable pipelines for stream ingestion and scheduling.
Blueface Ltd
3 weeks ago

Sr. Backend Engineer - Xumo

Open 19d HybridNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Build and optimize backend systems for a free ad-supported streaming TV platform, handling video ingestion, APIs, and recommendation pipelines to deliver content to millions of viewers.

API Automation AWS Azure Cloud +18 skills
141 861 – 189 148 $
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Maven Backed by Y Combinator
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Engineering

Open 19d HybridNorth AmericaContractSenior 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

Build and maintain scalable backend systems for Maven Clinic’s virtual women’s and family healthcare platform using cloud technologies and microservices.

AWS Azure Cloud Containerization Distributed Systems +8 skills
195 000 – 230 000 $
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The Consensus
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer - D2C Ordering Platform

Open 19d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and scales backend services for a direct-to-consumer dining ordering platform using Java and Go, focusing on APIs and merchant tools.

API Java
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CrowdStrike, Inc.
3 weeks ago

Sr. Backend Engineer II (Hybrid)

Open 19d 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

Builds and scales core backend services for CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity platform, processing trillions of events daily using Go, Kafka, Flink, and distributed databases.

AI AWS Azure Cassandra CI/CD +19 skills
160 000 – 250 000 $
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Apex Systems
3 weeks ago

Lead Golang Backend Engineer - AWS Cloud

Open 19d North AmericaLead 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

Lead a backend team building scalable, cloud-native applications in Golang on AWS, mentoring engineers and driving best practices for distributed systems.

Apex AWS Cloud Cloud Native Distributed Systems +1 skills
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)

Open 81d RemoteWorldwide, 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.

Build and secure Affirm’s backend infrastructure, focusing on Kubernetes, secrets management, and authentication systems to enable safe, scalable deployments.

Analytics Authentication Automation AWS Cloud +9 skills
173 000 – 255 000 $
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Software Engineer II, Backend (Capital Orchestration)

Open 81d RemoteNorth AmericaLead 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

Build and maintain Affirm’s backend systems that reconcile loan transactions, move billions in collateral monthly, and ensure liquidity for loan origination and merchant payments.

Agentic AI Airflow Analytics Data Pipelines JavaScript +4 skills
146 000 – 225 000 $
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Capacity Modeling)

Open 81d RemoteWorldwide, North AmericaStaff 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.

Builds and maintains statistical models to forecast infrastructure needs for Affirm’s payment platform, ensuring reliable performance during peak sales events like Black Friday.

Analytics AWS Distributed Systems DynamoDB Kotlin +4 skills
181 000 – 241 000 CAD
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Software Engineer II, Back-end (Card Mgmt & Transaction Processing)

Open 75d RemoteNorth AmericaLead 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.

Builds and maintains the core card-issuing and transaction-processing systems that authorize purchases, manage card lifecycles, and tokenize cards for Affirm’s buy-now-pay-later products using Python or Kotlin on AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

Analytics AWS Distributed Systems Kotlin Kubernetes +2 skills
146 000 – 225 000 $
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Test Enablers)

Open 62d RemoteEurope, North AmericaContractSenior 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.

Build and maintain backend systems for synthetic identities, test data, mocking, and load testing to help Affirm engineers validate changes faster and more reliably.

AI Automation CI/CD Distributed Systems Java +4 skills
86 000 – 122 000 €
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Software Engineer II, Backend (Test Infra)

Open 53d RemoteNorth AmericaLead 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.

Build and maintain scalable test automation frameworks and CI pipelines for Affirm’s fintech products using TypeScript, Python, Playwright, and Pytest.

AI Automation AWS Docker Playwright +5 skills
146 000 – 225 000 $
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lake Analytics Platform)

Open 52d RemoteNorth 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.

Build and operate Affirm's backend data infrastructure, focusing on platform reliability, self-service tools, and agentic data systems using Python, SQL, and cloud platforms like Snowflake or Databricks.

Agentic AI AI Analytics API Automation +22 skills
173 000 – 255 000 $
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity International)

Open 48d RemoteEurope, 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.

Build and maintain Affirm’s international identity platform, handling KYC, user lifecycle, and decisioning across markets to enable global growth.

AI Analytics AWS Distributed Systems Kotlin +4 skills
86 000 – 122 000 €
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Back-end (Fraud)

Open 43d RemoteEurope, 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.

Senior Software Engineer building real-time fraud detection systems in Python/Kotlin for Affirm's global expansion, using AWS, Kubernetes, and AI tools to protect users and merchants.

AI Airflow Analytics API AWS +13 skills
86 000 – 122 000 €
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger Engineering)

Open 42d RemoteNorth AmericaStaff 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.

Designs and maintains a high-scale, audit-grade ledger platform in Python or Kotlin, ensuring financial accuracy and regulatory compliance for a buy-now-pay-later service.

Analytics AWS Distributed Systems Kotlin Kubernetes +3 skills
181 000 – 241 000 CAD
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