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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Senior Software Engineer, Backend
DroneDeploy · Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Platform Engineer
Onebrief · United States
Staff Backend Software Engineer - Agent Platform (Python/Go)
SentinelOne · United States
Staff Backend Engineer - Licensing & Revenue Platform
Verkada · San Mateo, CA, US
Devops / Platform Engineer
OnRamp · Boston, MA, US
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Remote · Location not specified
Senior Backend Software Engineer - Loki | NASA | Remote
Remote · Location not specified
Senior Backend Engineer, IAM
Remote · Location not specified
Senior Platform Engineer - Platform Team
Legora · Stockholm, Sweden
Software Engineer, API Enterprise Controls
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA, US
Staff Embedded Linux Platform Engineer
Zipline · South San Francisco, CA, US
Security Platform Engineer
Remote · Location not specified
Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA, US / Mountain View, CA, US
Software Engineer, Backend
Mistral AI · Paris
Safety Engineer (Backend Leaning)
ElevenLabs · San Francisco, CA, US / Poland / Tokyo, Japan / Dublin, Ireland / London, GB / Los Angeles, CA, US / New York, NY, US / Washington, DC, US / Boston, MA, US
Senior Backend Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin)
Remote · Location not specified
Research Platform Engineer
Mistral AI · Warsaw, Poland / London, GB / Paris
Staff CAD Platform Engineer (NX / Teamcenter)
Anduril · Costa Mesa, CA, US
Tinkerer
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA, US
Software Platform Engineer
Optura · Cluj County, Romania
Senior Backend Engineer
Eight Sleep · United States
Staff Engineer, Backend
TollBit · Remote
Manager, Vendor Integration Engineering
Remote · Location not specified
Intermediate Backend Engineer, India
GitLab · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
C#/.NET Software Developer
Holdings · Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, US
Staff Backend Engineer
Hatch · United States / Canada
Vice President, Senior Backend Developer - Lending/Commercial (Remote, Mumbai)
Remote · Location not specified
Applied AI Architect - Tokyo
OpenAI · Tokyo, Japan
AI-native Staff Backend Engineer
Remote · Location not specified
ML Platform Engineer, Distributed Training
Remote · Location not specified
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