Backend Jobs in United States
There are 5,636 open Backend jobs in United States on freehire right now. 771 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 | $215,012 | 1,404 |
| 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 23%
How the work is done
- Remote 858 · 15%
- Hybrid 741 · 13%
- Onsite 361 · 6%
Visa sponsorship offered in 39% of the 1,596 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 3,104
- Lead 432
- Staff 392
- Principal 104
- Middle 50
- C-level 43
Who is hiring
- 501-1000 employees 925
- 1000+ employees 914
- 51-200 employees 585
- 11-50 employees 284
- 201-500 employees 46
- 1-10 employees 15
Senior Python AI SaaS Engineer - Backend Architect
Build and scale the customer-facing backend for AI-powered SaaS, collaborating with product, data science, and UX to deploy secure, enterprise-grade applications.
Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Powered Messaging
Architects scalable backend systems for AI-driven marketing, building high-performance services in Java/Python/Go to power personalized messaging at scale.
Senior Backend Engineer, Wallet & DeFi Platform
Build backend services and infrastructure for a crypto wallet and DeFi platform, designing scalable architectures and mentoring peers.
Senior/Staff/Principal Backend Engineer, Platform & Data Ingestion
Builds and optimizes high-throughput data ingestion pipelines and search systems to transform unstructured clinical text into structured oncology data models, using Scala/Elixir, OpenSearch, and OCR pipelines.
Staff Backend Engineer (Remote)
Staff Backend Engineer builds and maintains scalable APIs, microservices, and data pipelines in Go and AWS to power a personalized health guidance platform.
Senior Backend Software Engineer - Global Commercial Services Technology
Senior backend engineer building scalable expense-management services in Go on AWS, using Kafka, Temporal/Camunda, and polyglot databases for SMB and corporate clients.
Sr. Backend Engineer (Golang/Distributed Systems) - LATAM
Build and scale a high-throughput, event-driven backend platform in Golang and Node.js, owning distributed systems, Kafka streams, Redis/MongoDB, and Kubernetes deployments on GCP.
Staff Backend Software Engineer
Build and maintain large-scale backend systems and APIs for GM’s mobility platforms using Java/Kotlin, microservices, and cloud infrastructure.
Software Engineer, Backend (Hybrid)
Build and maintain Cisco’s AI/ML backend platform, deploying services on cloud and containerized infrastructure to power production-grade AI applications.
Technical Lead, Backend (Identity Engineering) - Remote
Lead backend engineering for Cisco Duo’s identity and Zero Trust security platform, designing scalable authentication systems and APIs.
Middle Java Developer — Backend и Микросервисы
Builds and maintains Java-based microservices and APIs for high-load backend systems using Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Infrastructure
Build and scale the backend infrastructure for a SaaS platform modernizing construction finance, using Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Postgres.
Senior Backend Developer (Java / Integrations)
Senior Java backend developer building enterprise integrations and leading a team to connect workflow automation software with customer systems using REST/SOAP APIs, SQL, and Spring.
Senior Edge & Backend Systems Engineer (IoT Connectivity)
Build and maintain the on-device agent and device-facing middleware for an autonomous IoT connectivity platform, while contributing to a scalable Python backend.
Senior Edge + Backend Software Engineer
Build and own an on-device agent and Python backend for an AI-driven connectivity intelligence platform, shipping resilient edge software and scalable data pipelines.
Senior Backend Python Engineer (TS/SCI) - Onsite
Senior Backend Engineer building secure Python services and migrating systems to the cloud for a government contractor in Maryland.
Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python)
Senior backend engineer building Python services to support UI teams and migrate systems to cloud infrastructure.