Backend Jobs in United States

There are 5,666 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

CurrencyPeriod25thMedian75thPostings
USDyear$166,500$192,050$215,0121,404
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
EverCommerce
3 weeks ago

EverHealth - Backend Claims Management Specialist (Remote, US)

Open 20d RemoteNorth America
United States

Backend Claims Management Specialist resolves healthcare claims denials, analyzes payer trends, and improves revenue cycle performance for a SaaS platform serving health services.

Accounts Receivable Candidate Experience Process Improvement SaaS
16 – 22 $ / hr
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Unity
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure

Open 20d North AmericaSenior
United States

Build and operate the backend platform powering Unity’s internal AI analytics agent, including APIs, access control, and GCP-based infrastructure to ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency at scale.

Agentic AI AI Analytics API Api Design +12 skills
135 800 – 258 600 $
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Car Next Door
3 weeks ago

Senior Staff Engineer (Backend) - Autonomous Vehicles and Agentic AI

Open 16d North AmericaFull-timeStaff
United States

Define backend architecture for autonomous-vehicle and agentic-AI systems, integrating fleet, business, and support platforms while scaling reliability and testing for multi-city production.

Agentic AI AI C++ Distributed Systems Generative AI +2 skills
267 000 – 297 000 $
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Popl Backed by Y Combinator
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Open 78d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Build and scale backend services for Popl’s AI-native platform that turns in-person events into measurable revenue by capturing leads, enriching data, and syncing with CRMs in real time.

AI API AWS Cloud CRM +5 skills
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Digipulse Technologies, Inc
3 weeks ago

Software Engineer - Java Backend -10yrs - Boston MA(Onsite)

Open 21d HybridNorth America 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 Java backend services using Spring Boot and AWS (EKS) in a hybrid role based in Newark, NJ.

AWS EKS Java Spring
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AbbVie
3 weeks ago

Associate Backend Software Engineer II

Open 21d On-siteNorth America
United States

Builds backend services and data pipelines for a biopharma company, using Java, JavaScript, SQL, and TypeScript to support scientific and business needs.

AI Apex Data Science Data Visualization Generative AI +5 skills
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EnsoData
3 weeks ago

Backend Software Engineer

Open 21d HybridNorth America 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 the backend infrastructure for EnsoSleep, a healthcare AI platform that analyzes medical waveforms to automate sleep-study scoring and improve patient diagnosis workflows.

Agentic AI Agile AI API Automation +24 skills
130 000 – 140 000 $
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Brainway
3 weeks ago

Senior Go Backend Engineer

Open 21d RemoteWorldwideSenior

Senior Go backend engineer building scalable microservices for a US/Israel fintech partner, using Go, gRPC, Kafka, MongoDB, and Redis in a fully remote role.

Agentic AI Agile AI API Api Design +23 skills
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iCapital
3 weeks ago

VP Backend Engineer - Cloud, APIs & AI-Driven Platforms

Open 21d North AmericaC-level
United States

VP-level backend engineer building and scaling cloud services and APIs for a fintech platform using Scala, Ruby, and Python.

API Cloud Python Ruby Scala
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Selector
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Powered Data Pipelines

Open 21d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and maintains ETL pipelines and data models in Python/Go, applies agentic AI workflows to scale infrastructure reasoning, and builds production-grade integrations for a digital infrastructure intelligence platform.

Agentic AI AI ETL Python
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TalentOla
3 weeks ago

Senior Python Backend Engineer - Graph DBs & AWS

Open 21d North AmericaSenior
United States

Designs and builds scalable cloud-native Python backend services and APIs using graph databases and AWS for a fast-moving product company.

API AWS Cloud Cloud Native Data Modeling +1 skills
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Pivotal Health
3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Healthcare Reimbursement

Open 21d North AmericaSenior
United States

Senior backend engineer building healthcare reimbursement systems in Python, owning eligibility, batching, submissions, and claim orchestration workflows.

Python
Dave
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer Backend

Open 21d 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

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend services in TypeScript/Node.js for banking, card management, and payment processing, while improving system reliability and observability.

Agile API Cloud Cloud Native Design Patterns +7 skills
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SmartCommerce
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Backend Engineer (Remote)

Open 21d RemoteWorldwideSenior
United States

Build and maintain backend services for an ecommerce platform, using modern cloud technologies and APIs.
LILA Sciences
3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics

Open 21d Worldwide, MENAFull-timeSenior

Build back-end and data systems that schedule autonomous lab work, model digital twins, and turn raw experimental output into trustworthy, queryable data using Python, Flyte, Temporal, PostgreSQL, and AWS EKS.

AI Automation AWS CI/CD Cloud +18 skills
144 000 – 240 000 $
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Remote Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lake Analytics Platform)

Open 22d 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

Build and operate Affirm’s backend data infrastructure, designing secure, scalable platforms for analytics and self-service tooling to support fintech operations at scale.

Agentic AI AI Analytics API Automation +22 skills
195 000 – 255 000 $
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Sentilink Backed by a16z
3 weeks ago

Remote Senior Engineering Manager, Back End

Open 22d 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 a backend/platform engineering team building scalable APIs and services for SentiLink’s identity-verification systems using Golang, Python, and AWS.

API AWS Data Science Developer Experience Distributed Systems +10 skills
200 000 – 260 000 $
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Remote Software Engineer Ii, Back-End (Card Mgmt & Transaction Processing)

Open 22d 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 card-issuing and transaction-processing backend systems, including authorization, lifecycle management, and security, using Python or Kotlin on AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

Analytics AWS Distributed Systems Kotlin Kubernetes +2 skills
146 000 – 206 000 $
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Affirm
3 weeks ago

Remote Software Engineer Ii, Backend (Test Infra)

Open 22d 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 scalable test automation frameworks and CI pipelines for a fintech company, using TypeScript, Python, Playwright, and Pytest to improve developer productivity and software quality.

AI Automation AWS Docker Playwright +5 skills
146 000 – 206 000 $
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Epistemix
3 weeks ago

Remote Senior Back End Software Engineer

Open 22d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Build and scale the back-end of a data-science platform that models human behavior for healthcare, insurance, and government clients using Python, FastAPI, AWS, and Kubernetes.

Agile API Api Design Automation AWS +33 skills
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