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Hoffman Estates • 50 milesRemote · Hybrid · Onsite · Field · All Environments
Hoffman Estates • 50 milesRemote · Hybrid · Onsite · Field · All Environments
Hoffman Estates • 50 milesRemote · Hybrid · Onsite · Field · All Environments
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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
Own the crawlers, pipelines, and infrastructure powering a real-time job search engine. Strong Node.js and Python fundamentals; bonus points for security and reverse-engineering chops.
Node.js, Python, Elasticsearch, Redis
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Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery
Oakland or San Francisco or New York City or Boston or Seattle or Irvine or Los Angeles or Monterey or Santa Barbara or Santa Rosa or Austin or Portland or Philadelphia or Chicago or United States
$146k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience building/operating production distributed systems; strong programming in Go/Java/Rust; production debugging, observability, on-call experience; clear AI usage in engineering work.
Go, Java, Rust
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Staff Backend Engineer, Safety
United States or San Francisco or Los Angeles or New York City or Chicago
$217k-$304k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software development experience; proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby; experience with GraphQL/REST/HTTP/Thrift/gRPC; BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience; strong organizational and cross-functional remote collaboration skills.
Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, gRPC
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Senior Backend Engineer - Java
United States or Tampa or Boston or Atlanta or New York City or Columbus or Chicago or Philadelphia or Raleigh or Charlotte or Minneapolis or Dallas or Washington D.C. or Austin or Miami or Newark
$152k-$194k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years experience with Java/Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, relational databases; experience designing event-driven microservices, strong testing practices, AI-assisted development familiarity, BA/BS or equivalent.
Java 17, Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, JPA/Hibernate 6, Postgres, Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, ArgoCD, TeamCity, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Model Context Protocol (MCP), GitHub, SonarQube
1mo
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Backend / Frontend Developer Intern
Chicago, Illinois, United States
OnsiteInternship
0+ YOEInternship seeking motivated, detail-oriented students skilled in frontend or backend development.
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, REST APIs, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, AWS
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Staff Back End Engineer, Trading
Chicago or New York City or Los Angeles or San Francisco or Culver City or Dallas
$200k-$285k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years building low-latency trading systems, BA/BS preferred, proficient with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, strong leadership and communication.
Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes
1w
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Lead Backend Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$185k-$215k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years backend experience with strong Python skills, hands-on technical leadership, experience with FastAPI, relational data modeling, PostgreSQL/ORMs, AWS services, CI/CD, and mentoring engineers.
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Flyway, AWS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, Docker, Git, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Claude Code, Cursor, Terraform, Terragrunt, Datadog, Sentry, LangGraph, Claude Code SDK, Amazon Bedrock
2mo
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Senior Backend Engineer (Python) - Content Understanding
San Francisco or Atlanta or Austin or Boston or Chicago or Dallas or Denver or Houston or Jacksonville or Los Angeles or Miami or New York City or Phoenix or Portland or Sacramento or Salt Lake City or San Diego or Seattle or Washington, D.C. or Ottawa or Toronto or Vancouver or Mexico City
$120k-$228k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering; Python 5+ years; distributed systems; AWS; Terraform; leadership; bachelor’s in CS.
Python, Scala, Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Terraform, AWS, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, Datadog
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Senior Backend Java Engineer (Chicago Hybrid)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$130k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's degree with 5+ years engineering experience, 4+ years Java, GCP and Postgres experience, experience with Anthropic Claude/LLMs, and U.S. citizenship able to obtain security clearance.
Java, Python, GCP, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, Anthropic Claude, LLMs, RAG systems, AI coding assistants
2w
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Senior Platform Backend Engineer - Battery Storage
San Francisco or Houston or Chicago or Seattle or New York City or Palm Beach or Birmingham or United States
$150k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years platform/backend/data/platform engineering experience; strong AWS, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, Python, CI/CD, and observability experience; experience with data platforms and relational databases.
Python, AWS, VPC, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git
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Senior Backend Engineer, Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover
Chicago or Redwood City
HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years building backend services; experience with Rust or Go, SQL, microservices, gRPC/protobuf or GraphQL, message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure); familiarity with payments, security and compliance.
Rust, Go, gRPC, protobuf, GraphQL, SQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Sr. Backend Software Engineer (NodeJS)
United States or Minneapolis or Philadelphia or New Hartford or Austin or Champaign or Chicago
$140k-$160k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOEExpertise in Node.js/Typescript and PostgreSQL, 8+ years backend experience with distributed systems, GraphQL, TypeORM, Nest.js; familiarity with Kubernetes, message brokers, AWS, Terraform.
Typescript, NodeJS, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, TypeORM, Nest.js, RabbitMQ, RMQ, React, AWS, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, EKS, Microsoft Teams
2mo
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend Services
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$150k-$170k/yr HybridAll Commitments Available
5+ YOESenior Python engineer with 5-7 years in large-scale systems, building SaaS/PaaS, and data management experience.
Python, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, SQL, REST, AWS, Docker, PySpark, Kafka, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Lustre, GPFS, VAST, Parquet, S3, Security: OAuth2, SAML, OpenID Connect
1w
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Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$120k-$150k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years building production backend systems; expertise in C#/.NET, API design, scalable architectures, relational databases, cloud deployment; bachelor's in CS/IT or equivalent.
C#, .NET, ASP.NET Web APIs, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core, SQL Server, MySQL, Azure, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Azure DevOps
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Sr. Backend Dev – Java/Spring Boot, Angular, Cloud - TX
Texas or Chicago or New York City
$44k-$154k/yr HybridFull Time, Contract
Photon: A digital modernization services firm that builds and operates digital experiences for large enterprises.
5+ YOE5+ years software development experience; strong Java and Spring Boot skills, Angular, cloud (GCP/Azure), CI/CD, RESTful APIs/microservices, data structures and algorithms; 3+ years building APIs; ability to lead technical decisions and mentor engineers.
Java, Spring Boot, Angular, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, RESTful APIs, Microservices, Kafka, Pub/Sub
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Lead Software Engineer, Back End
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$179k-$205k/yr OnsiteFull Time
4+ YOEBachelor's degree, 4+ years professional software engineering experience, and 1+ year cloud computing experience (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud).
Java, Python, SQL, Node, Node.js, Go, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, GCP
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Staff Software Engineer-Backend
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$175k-$215k/yr OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years backend experience with Node.js, distributed systems, NoSQL (MongoDB), event-driven architectures (Kafka/Confluent), AWS, security, API design, mentoring, and AI tooling experience.
Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Kafka, Confluent, REST, AWS, Claude Code, Cursor
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Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - NT Connect
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$100k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years backend software development; JVM languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin); REST/WebSocket APIs; Kubernetes/GCP; security best practices; strong problem-solving; AI tooling experience.
Java, Scala, Kotlin, REST, WebSocket, Kubernetes, GCP, OpenTelemetry, CI/CD, GitHub Copilot, Pub/Sub, Node.js
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Software Engineer (Contract)
Chicago or Washington or District of Columbia or Florida or Illinois or Maryland or Michigan or North Carolina or New York or Pennsylvania or Texas or Vermont or Virginia or United States
$90k/yr HybridContract
1+ YOE1–2 years professional software engineering experience; familiarity with AI/ML and tools; front-end React and back-end frameworks (Rails/Django/Node); SQL proficiency; strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.
React, Python, Ruby, Node, SQL, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ReactJS, AngularJS, VueJS, Rails, Django, NodeJS, Go, Flask, Amazon Web Services (AWS), D3, pandas, scikit-learn, NumPy, SciPy, R, STATA
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Graduate Developer
Farmington Hills or Rosemont or Pennsylvania or Houston or Dallas or Golden
HybridFull Time
0+ YOEBachelor's degree required, 0-2 years developer experience, proficiency in JavaScript and Python, front- or back-end development, data visualization and manipulation skills.
Javascript, Python, Earth Volumetric Studio
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Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack, Event Technology
San Francisco or Palo Alto or Chicago or New York City or Seattle or Indianapolis
$238k-$345k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years building and scaling production systems, AI-first engineering and prompt engineering skills, architecture and technical leadership, front- and back-end experience (JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js), AWS/GCP, GraphQL/REST.
Claude, Cursor, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Tailwind, Sass, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway, GCP, GraphQL, REST, Snowflake, Google Analytics, Akamai
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