Backend Jobs in United States

There are 5,666 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 777 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 860 · 15%
  • Hybrid 745 · 13%
  • Onsite 359 · 6%

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

Seniority

  • Senior 3,121
  • Lead 436
  • Staff 394
  • Principal 104
  • Middle 51
  • C-level 43

Who is hiring

  • 501-1000 employees 926
  • 1000+ employees 919
  • 51-200 employees 587
  • 11-50 employees 285
  • 201-500 employees 46
  • 1-10 employees 15
5,666 jobs
Affirm
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, Scalable Systems

Open 20d 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.
United States

Senior backend engineer at Affirm builds and scales financial systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes while collaborating with product and design teams.

AWS Kotlin Kubernetes MySQL Python
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, Scalable Cloud Compute

Open 20d 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.
United States

Lead backend engineering for Affirm’s batch compute platform, building scalable cloud infrastructure to support ML, financial, and product workloads with a focus on reliability and self-service.

Analytics Cloud Machine Learning
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Arc Backed by Y Combinator
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer-Remote, High-Impact Marine Platform

Open 20d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and maintains cloud-based microservices and APIs for electric marine platforms, including boat infotainment, telemetry pipelines, and manufacturing tools.

API Cloud Data Pipelines Microservices
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Scalable Orchestration

Open 20d 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.
United States

Senior Backend Engineer at Affirm builds and scales cloud-native payment systems in Python/Kotlin, owns quarterly goals, and leads engineering teams to maintain high-availability infrastructure.

Analytics Cloud Cloud Native Kotlin Python
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TeamViewer GmbH
3 weeks ago

Senior AI Backend Engineer

Open 20d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Java backend engineer building scalable services for TeamViewer Tia, balancing AI-driven features with deterministic logic while optimizing latency, cost, and reliability.

Java
TikTok
3 weeks ago

Backend Engineer, Live Content Governance

Open 20d North America
United States

Build backend systems to moderate and govern live-streaming content, ensuring quality and safety at scale for TikTok LIVE.
Sigma Computing
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Open 81d North AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Build backend distributed services and APIs in Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes to power Sigma’s AI-driven analytics platform on cloud data warehouses.

Agentic AI AI Analytics API AWS +12 skills
170 000 – 240 000 $
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Sigma Computing
3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Open 81d North AmericaFull-timeStaff
United States

Build and optimize Sigma’s AI-powered analytics platform backend using Rust, Go, GraphQL, and Kubernetes to deliver interactive data exploration and cloud-native services for enterprise users.

Agentic AI AI Analytics API AWS +12 skills
240 000 – 270 000 $
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Coupang Internal
3 weeks ago

Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Pricing)

Open 20d North AmericaStaff
United States

Architect and build scalable pricing platforms for Coupang’s e-commerce marketplace, handling hundreds of millions of daily requests using distributed systems and JVM technologies.

AWS CI/CD Cloud Data Pipelines DevOps +11 skills
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Coupang
3 weeks ago

Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Pricing)

Open 20d North AmericaStaff
United States

Architect and build scalable pricing platforms for Coupang’s e-commerce marketplace, handling hundreds of millions of daily requests using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native tools.

AWS CI/CD Cloud Data Pipelines DevOps +11 skills
174 000 – 299 000 $
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Wonder
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Open 20d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior 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 the backend brains for automated restaurants using Elixir/Phoenix, orchestrating real-time systems that link cloud services, robotic hardware, and frontend apps to ensure flawless order fulfillment.

API Automation Cloud Distributed Systems Elixir +7 skills
176 000 – 183 500 $
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Quizlet
3 weeks ago

Backend Engineer

Open 20d HybridNorth AmericaFull-time 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 AI-powered search infrastructure for a learning platform, designing Elasticsearch pipelines, hybrid retrieval systems, and backend services to deliver low-latency, high-relevance results at scale.

AI Airflow API Api Design AWS +39 skills
167 000 – 219 000 $
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Kiddom
3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Open 20d North AmericaFull-timeStaff 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 scale backend services, APIs, and databases for K–12 education software, ensuring performance and reliability while collaborating with frontend engineers and product teams.

Analytics API AWS Azure Cloud +17 skills
180 000 – 230 000 $
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Clerk Chat
3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend & AI

Open 20d North AmericaStaff
United States

Build and scale real-time voice AI systems and backend infrastructure for a conversational messaging app, integrating LLMs, STT/TTS, and orchestration layers.

A/B Testing AI Conversational AI Data Pipelines Distributed Systems +7 skills
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Superhuman
3 weeks ago

Software Engineer, Back-End - Mail (Canada)

Open 20d RemoteNorth America

Builds high-throughput backend systems for Superhuman Mail, integrating AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines across the productivity platform.

Agentic AI AI API Api Design AWS +9 skills
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Unity
3 weeks ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Offerwall

Open 20d North AmericaStaff
United States

Lead the backend architecture for Offerwall, Unity’s mobile ad-monetization platform, building real-time bidding (OpenRTB) and direct offer services in Go to maximize revenue for game developers.

Distributed Systems Go gRPC Machine Learning Observability +1 skills
200 400 – 260 500 $
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Cisco
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Hybrid)

Open 19d HybridAPAC, CIS, Europe, MENA, North AmericaFull-timeSenior
+5

Build and scale backend platforms for Cisco’s AI-powered networking and security products using Python/Go, cloud services, and microservices.

Agentic AI AI AWS Azure Cisco +12 skills
167 700 – 245 200 $
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Cisco
3 weeks ago

Software Engineering Technical Leader, Backend (Hybrid)

Open 19d HybridNorth AmericaFull-time
United States

Lead the architecture and scaling of Cisco’s AI-powered backend platform, integrating generative AI and LLM frameworks to build production-grade, enterprise-grade systems.

Agentic AI AI AWS Azure Cisco +12 skills
186 900 – 267 700 $
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Cisco
3 weeks ago

Software Engineering Technical Leader, Backend (Hybrid)

Open 19d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeLead
United States

Lead architecture and scaling of Cisco’s AI-powered backend systems using Python/Go, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms to deliver production-grade AI app development tools.

Agentic AI AI AWS Azure Cisco +12 skills
214 100 – 309 800 $
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Adobe
3 weeks ago

Software Engineer 4, Backend Services

Open 19d North America
United States

Build and scale cloud-native backend services for Adobe Express, integrating AI-assisted workflows to power creative content creation, discovery, and publishing for a global audience.

A/B Testing Agentic AI Agile AI Analytics +18 skills
139 000 – 257 550 $
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