Backend Jobs in United States
There are 5,672 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 778 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 | $166,500 | $192,050 | $215,025 | 1,403 |
| USD | hour | $62 | $69 | $76 | 28 |
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 859 · 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 3,123
- 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
Senior Backend Engineer | ETL, AI Workflows, Customer Data
Build and maintain ETL pipelines and AI-driven data workflows in Python/Go, integrating with customer systems and scaling data engineering for production deployments.
Senior Market Data Backend Engineer - Remote (EMEA)
Design and build high-performance backend systems for financial market data, focusing on resilient APIs and low-latency distributed architectures.
Senior Backend Engineer - Django & Python, Scale & Impact
Scribe is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Core Engineering Team, powering document viewing, editing, embedding, exporting, and integrations. You’ll own impactful projects—from evolving core document…
Senior Backend Engineer — Django/Python at Scale
Scribe, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Core Engineering Team in San Francisco. You’ll own backend features in a Django/Python stack, optimize critical workflows, and collaborate across product,…
Senior Backend Engineer – HealthTech, Scale to 1M+ Sessions
Design and scale backend systems for a real-time HealthTech platform, ensuring resilience and performance as sessions grow from thousands to millions per day.
Senior Backend Engineer, Python/Django (Hybrid, SF) Equity
Scribe is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Core Engineering Team, supporting document viewing and editing, embeddings, and exports. Youll own impactful backend projects and help raise engineering standards…
Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) — Flask & Scale
Senior Backend Engineer builds scalable Python/Flask microservices using SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, and Docker to improve user experiences and business outcomes.
Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Enterprise Workflows
Architects and builds AI-native backend systems that orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into scalable workflows for customer experience intelligence.
Senior Backend Engineer - API & Data Pipelines (TS/SCI)
Senior backend engineer building APIs and data pipelines for a large-scale situational-awareness platform used by government and industry.
Senior Backend & Frontend Engineer, Data Cloud
Build backend and frontend features for Rippling’s Data Cloud, powering HR and finance solutions with Python/Django and React/TypeScript.
Staff Software Engineer — Backend
Set technical direction for cross-cutting backend platform infrastructure, including durable workflow orchestration, transaction ordering, concurrency control, shared service primitives, and reliability standards.…
Lead Backend Engineer - Future Hiring Program
Lead backend engineer designing and deploying scalable microservices in C#/.NET on Azure, integrating AI/ML models into production systems and leading remote teams.
Software Engineer: Backend
Build backend systems in Ruby on Rails that handle healthcare benefits enrollments, payments, and fund flows, ensuring compliance and reliability at scale.
W2 Only - Java Backend Engineer with Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Senior Java backend engineer building secure microservices and IAM systems, integrating enterprise identity providers and enforcing auth protocols.