17 backend development engineer jobs at 13 companies in Kentucky
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Principal Backend Engineer – Music Discovery Platform - Roon
New York or Illinois or Florida or Tennessee or Oregon or Kentucky or Connecticut or Kansas or California or Colorado or Missouri or Idaho or Arizona or Minnesota or Montana or Massachusetts or Indiana or District of Columbia or Michigan
$125k-$184k/yr RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years developing backend services; proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go; expertise in APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, and CI/CD; leadership and mentoring experience.
Node.js, Python, Go, GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Kafka, RabbitMQ, C#, .NET
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Software Development Engineer III (Backend + AI)
Alabama or Arkansas or Arizona or Colorado or Florida or Georgia or Idaho or Iowa or Indiana or Kansas or Kentucky or Missouri or Michigan or Minnesota or North Carolina or New Mexico or Oklahoma or Ohio or Oregon or South Carolina or South Dakota or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington or Wyoming
$135k-$155k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years professional programming experience, backend web architecture, security best practices, AWS, mentoring experience, BS in CS/Engineering or equivalent, participate in on-call rotation.
Unix/Linux, Golang, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, NGINX, Redis, HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, JSON, Docker, Kubernetes, Claude Code, Cursor, LLMs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), CLAUDE.md, OAuth2
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Software Engineer
Illinois or Kentucky or Kansas or Idaho or Washington or Michigan or Florida or California or Texas or Oklahoma or Tennessee or North Carolina or Minnesota or Massachusetts or Indiana or Georgia or Arizona or Missouri or Alabama or Connecticut or District of Columbia or South Carolina or Oregon
$79k-$119k/yr HybridFull Time
Backend software engineering role; experience with C# or Python; strong distributed systems knowledge; cloud experience preferred.
C#, Python, GitHub Actions, Azure, Kubernetes
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Senior Software Engineer - NBA
Tennessee or Texas or Florida or Kentucky or District of Columbia or Colorado or Washington, D.C. or Louisville or Denver or Dallas or Fort Lauderdale
$107k-$147k/yr HybridFull Time
6+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science or related field, 6+ years of backend or platform engineering, distributed systems expertise, proficiency in a contemporary programming language, and experience with AI-assisted development tools.
Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, HireVue, Workday
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Senior Engineer - Observability Platform
Rhode Island or Mississippi or Montana or North Carolina or Louisiana or Maryland or Maine or Minnesota or Nebraska or Missouri or North Dakota or New York or New Jersey or New Mexico or Nevada or Ohio or South Carolina or Texas or South Dakota or Vermont or Tennessee or Virginia or Washington or Utah or Wisconsin or West Virginia or Oregon or Wyoming or Oklahoma or Pennsylvania or Colorado or Alabama or Arizona or California or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Iowa or Arkansas or Idaho or Illinois or Kansas or Delaware or Georgia or Indiana or Kentucky or Michigan or Massachusetts or New Hampshire
$83k-$222k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years software engineering, 3+ years observability, Go or Java backend services, OpenTelemetry, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, public cloud, Terraform or CloudFormation, and distributed pipelines.
Go, Python, Java, Spring Boot, OpenTelemetry, OTLP, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Kustomize, Grafana OSS, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Envoy, Istio, Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, GoAlert, Kafka, Pulsar, ClickHouse, Bigtable, Cassandra, CI/CD
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Senior Full Stack Engineer
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
$110k-$120k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years Java/JVM backend development with Spring Boot, microservices, JVM tuning, profiling, and experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems.
Java, Spring Boot, JVM, Drools, DMN
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Senior Kafka Developer - NBA
Kentucky or Louisville or Boston
$107k-$147k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's degree, 5+ years of backend engineering, production Apache Kafka/Confluent experience, strong Java and distributed-systems expertise, and experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
Apache Kafka, Confluent, Java, Drools, Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Kafka Streams, schema registry, Avro, Protobuf, HireVue, Workday
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Software Engineer Sr - E3
Herndon or King of Prussia or Sunnyvale or Palo Alto or New York City or Newark or Denver or Stratford or Moorestown or Dallas or Fort Worth or Orlando or Grand Prairie or Marietta or Camden or Lexington or Ocala or Lufkin
$88k-$228k/yr OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years developing backend software on Linux with C/C++ or Java; Agile experience; complex application testing/debugging; active TS/SCI clearance; bachelor's degree typically required.
Linux, C, C++, Java, SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, Ant, Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Collaborator, Docker, Kubernetes, Matlab, STK, AWS
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Senior Software Engineer, ERP (Data & Domain)
Alabama or Arizona or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Idaho or Illinois or Indiana or Iowa or Kentucky or Louisiana or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Minnesota or Missouri or Montana or Nebraska or Nevada or New Jersey or New Mexico or New York or North Carolina or Ohio or Oklahoma or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Vermont or Virginia or Wisconsin
$110k-$130k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering with deep data modeling, domain-driven design, PHP, SQL, event sourcing, and experience building or refactoring billing/ERP systems; ability to design canonical data models and lead migrations.
PHP, SQL
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Staff Software Engineer - Search / AI
Rhode Island or Mississippi or Montana or North Carolina or Louisiana or Maryland or Maine or Minnesota or Nebraska or Missouri or North Dakota or New York or New Jersey or New Mexico or Nevada or Ohio or South Carolina or Texas or South Dakota or Vermont or Tennessee or Virginia or Washington or Utah or Wisconsin or West Virginia or Oregon or Wyoming or Oklahoma or Pennsylvania or Colorado or Alabama or Arizona or California or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Iowa or Arkansas or Idaho or Illinois or Kansas or Delaware or Georgia or Indiana or Kentucky or Michigan or Massachusetts or New Hampshire
$107k-$284k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering, 5+ years cloud-native app experience (GCP/Azure/AWS), backend programming in Java/Python/Kotlin/Go, microservices design, AI/LLM integration, search tech, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, observability.
GCP, Azure, AWS, Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, Elastic, OpenSearch, Solr, Lucene, GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI, Harness, Docker, Kubernetes, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), CI/CD
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Full Stack Software Engineer (Golang & React)
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
$47k-$75k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5–8 years of software development experience with Golang, secure coding, PostgreSQL, React, backend integration, healthcare provider experience, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
Golang, PostgreSQL, React, CI/CD
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Senior AI Engineer
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related,5+ years backend/cloud/platform experience,expert Python,experience with AWS/Google Cloud,containerization,APIs,microservices,databases,DevOps and CI/CD;mentoring experience.
Python, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, SQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, GitHub, CI/CD, Terraform, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
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Software Engineer III
Alabama or Alaska or Arizona or Arkansas or Florida or Georgia or Idaho or Indiana or Iowa or Kansas or Kentucky or Louisiana or Mississippi or Montana or Nebraska or Nevada or New Hampshire or New Mexico or North Dakota or Ohio or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Dakota or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or West Virginia or Wyoming or Lincoln
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5+ YOE5+ years backend software experience, deep proficiency in C#/.NET, SQL Server/PostgreSQL, AWS (EKS, S3, SQS, EventBridge), CI/CD with GitLab pipelines, familiarity with Python/dbt/Dagster, and experience debugging production systems.
C#, .NET, Python, dbt, Dagster, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Claude Code, AWS, EKS, S3, SQS, EventBridge, GitLab pipelines
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Senior Software Engineer, ERP Platforms (Integration & Reporting)
Alabama or Arizona or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Idaho or Illinois or Indiana or Iowa or Kentucky or Louisiana or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Minnesota or Missouri or Montana or Nebraska or Nevada or New Jersey or New Mexico or New York or North Carolina or Ohio or Oklahoma or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Vermont or Virginia or Wisconsin
$110k-$130k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend or data engineering experience, built financial reporting and ETL pipelines, strong API design, PHP/Python/SQL experience, and experience with data warehouses.
administer, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, PHP, Python, SQL, JIRA
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Senior AI Applied Engineer
New York City or Louisville or Frisco
$141k-$194k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5+ years building production software, backend/API or distributed systems expertise, production LLM integration, Python or TypeScript/JavaScript, and operational support experience.
Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Gemini, Vertex AI, OCR, Document AI, Docker, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Microsoft?
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Senior Software Engineer, e-Commerce Fulfillment
Romeoville or United States or Michigan or Nebraska or Illinois or Nevada or New Hampshire or Tennessee or Minnesota or Texas or Connecticut or Virginia or Maine or Indiana or District of Columbia or Wisconsin or Montana or New York or Maryland or Missouri or Kansas or Utah or Pennsylvania or Washington or Colorado or Arkansas or California or New Jersey or Iowa or Louisiana or Rhode Island or Massachusetts or South Carolina or Mississippi or Kentucky or Florida or Oregon or Ohio or North Carolina or Arizona or Idaho or Georgia
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5+ YOE5+ years building high-scale backend applications and microservices; expertise in event-driven architectures, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), distributed transactions, cloud platforms, software design, testing, and mentoring.
Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS, Azure, GCP, Java, JVM, .NET, C#
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Senior Software Engineer – AI Applications
Seattle or Washington or Arizona or Florida or Kentucky or Texas
$157k-$298k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years full-stack experience; 2+ years AI in production; Python backend; TypeScript/SQL; AI model integration; AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB); AI safety; English fluent.
Python, TypeScript, SQL, AWS Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, DynamoDB, LangChain, vector databases, CI/CD tooling, inference evaluation, guardrails
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