Backend engineering jobs
Compare roles building APIs, services, and the data systems behind a product. Read beyond the language list: ownership, traffic patterns, and the team’s approach to reliability can tell you more about the day-to-day work.
What to look for in these roles
- Look for the services you would own, the databases they use, and how engineers ship changes.
- Check whether the role includes on-call work, architecture decisions, or production incident response.
- Prepare a project example that explains an API or data-model decision and the tradeoffs you made.
Use the requirements to narrow your shortlist, then practice explaining your relevant work before an interview.
Current openings
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Backend Engineer, Data
Stripe · Canada
Staff Engineer - Backend
Emergent · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Sr. Software Engineer (Backend) - Portugal
Remote · Location not specified
Senior Staff Platform Engineer
Remote · Location not specified
Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA, US
Associate Director/Director, Inference Engineering
Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA, US / Cambridge, MA, US
Senior Platform Engineer - US Remote
Remote · Location not specified
Senior Backend Engineer
inDriver · Georgia, US
Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA, US
Data Platform Engineer (Mid-level)
Remote · Location not specified
Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Hive · San Francisco, CA, US
Product Manager, API Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA, US
Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Team
Legora · Malmö, Sweden
Software Engineer - Backend
Hive · Seattle, WA, US
Solutions Architect
Checkr · Denver, CO, US
Senior Backend Engineer
Vay · Las Vegas, NV, US
Accounts Payable (AP) Clerk
Remote · Location not specified
Senior Manager, Back End Engineering [Remote-US]
Remote · Location not specified
Secrets Management Platform Engineer (R-00196)
Remote · Location not specified
Staff Backend Engineer - Trust & Control Safety Systems
Remote · Location not specified
Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA, US
Backend Engineer Intern
Clinikally · Gurugram, HR, IN / Gurugram, Haryana, IN
Senior Platform Engineer
Coval · San Francisco, CA, US
Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API
Parallel Web Systems · Palo Alto, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US
Backend Software Engineer, Cooperative AI (Evals)
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA, US / Seattle, WA, US
Full Stack and Backend NodeJS TypeScript/JavaScript Engineer (Senior) - Remote, Latin America
Remote · Location not specified
Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Level 6
Snap Inc. · Palo Alto, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Bellevue, WA, US / Los Angeles, CA, US / New York, NY, US
Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Hive · Seattle, WA, US
Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA, US
Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Team
Legora · Malmö, Sweden
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