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Principal Engineer, Backend Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
$210k-$274k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atlassian
AtlassianNASDAQ: TEAM: Develops software for team collaboration and project management.
Expert backend engineering to design and lead an AI proxy platform, ensure high availability, cost-efficiency, security integration, and mentor engineering teams.
Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, Rovo CLI
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Backend Engineering Intern
San Francisco or Istanbul or Ankara
HybridFull Time, Internship
PlusMinusOne
PlusMinusOne: Develops and markets a portfolio of utility and lifestyle apps
0+ YOE3rd/4th-year CS or engineering student with backend interest; hands-on backend experience via coursework/projects/internships; OOP, data structures, algorithms, and Git familiarity; strong analytical and communication skills.
Git
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Sr Backend Engineer
San Francisco or New York
$167k-$219k/yr HybridFull Time
Quizlet
Quizlet: Digital learning platform providing study tools and flashcards.
4+ YOE4+ years backend or data engineering experience; strong SQL and data warehouse experience; proficiency in Python/Java/Scala; Elasticsearch/OpenSearch experience; experience building production data pipelines and backend services.
Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Python, Java, Scala, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, dbt, REST, gRPC, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Spark, Kafka, Flink, FAISS, ScaNN, pgvector, LightGBM, XGBoost, BM25, HNSW, kNN
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Lead Backend Engineer
San Francisco or Lehi or Plano
$138k-$216k/yr HybridFull Time
Collective Health
Collective Health: Cloud platform for managing employer-sponsored health benefits.
10+ YOE10+ years backend engineering experience with Java and Spring Cloud, microservices and integration platform experience (Mulesoft), AI tooling familiarity, cloud (AWS/GCP), SQL/PostgreSQL, system development, and strong communication and leadership skills.
Java, Spring Cloud, Mulesoft, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, WindSurf, AWS, GCP, SQL, PostgreSQL
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Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$150k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Amari
Amari: AI agents automating document-heavy workflows for the logistics industry.
4+ YOE4–6 years backend software engineering in a high-growth startup; ownership of backend systems; strong architectural judgment; in-person SF collaboration.
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Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$190k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Lapel
Lapel: Unifying customer data to power personalized service at scale.
3+ YOE3+ years backend or software engineering; API design; backend architecture; Node.js/Python/Go; PostgreSQL/MySQL; scalable systems; customer-focused.
Node.js, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, MySQL, TypeScript, Temporal, Pulsar
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Backend Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco or North America
$200k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Firecrawl
Firecrawl: Converts websites into clean structured data for AI.
3+ YOE3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering; production ownership and on-call responsibility; authorized to work in the US or eligible remote regions.
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Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$110k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Clera
Clera: AI talent agent matching professionals with high-growth startup roles
5+ YOE5+ years backend experience, proficiency in Python, FastAPI, SQL, testing with pytest, experience designing data architectures and shipping production systems, familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools.
Python, FastAPI, pytest, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, SQL, AWS
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Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$140k-$185k/yr HybridFull Time
Scribe
Scribe: Automatically documents digital workflows into step-by-step process guides.
3+ YOE3+ years building backend applications, strong Python skills, experience optimizing endpoints and database queries, automated testing, and collaborative engineering practices.
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, AmazonMQ, Terraform, AWS
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Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Pi
Pi: Agentic AI platform for automated software vulnerability remediation.
Strong backend application engineering experience with TypeScript or Python, API design, relational databases, async/background systems, debugging across services, and security best practices.
TypeScript, Python, Next.js, tRPC, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Redis, Bun, Docker
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Software Engineering Manager – Backend
Santa Clara, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Qcells
Qcells: Provider of solar modules, energy storage, and EPC services.
8+ YOE3+ MgmtBachelor's or Master's in CS or related,8+ years backend development,3+ years engineering management,expertise in distributed systems,cloud (Azure or AWS),REST APIs,event-driven systems,databases,microservices;travel up to 15%.
Azure, AWS, REST APIs
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Backend Infrastructure Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United States
$165k-$180k/yr HybridFull Time
Vinci
Vinci: AI software for rapid hardware design and physics simulation.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience focused on backend and infrastructure. Hands-on Terraform and major cloud experience, CI/CD (Jenkins), build systems (CMake,pip/uv), Python and C++ proficiency, production platform experience.
Terraform, GCP, AWS, Azure, Jenkins, CMake, pip, uv, Python, C++, Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch, NumPy, CUDA
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Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$130k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation
Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation: Operates programs for women's empowerment and community resilience.
3+ YOE3+ years backend or full-stack engineering experience with data/analytics; strong Python (preferred) or Node.js/Ruby/Java, SQL and NoSQL skills; experience building data pipelines, defining metrics, A/B testing, and data visualization; bachelor's in CS/data field or equivalent.
Python, Node.js, Ruby, Java, SQL, NoSQL, RESTful APIs
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Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$140k-$290k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Paraform
Paraform: Marketplace connecting hiring companies with specialized recruiters and AI.
Deep backend expertise; pragmatic, operationally minded, high ownership; experience building production services, databases, and integrations.
PostgreSQL, REST APIs, CI/CD, Git, Authentication, Observability
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Backend Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Luminary Cloud
Luminary Cloud: Cloud-native physics simulation platform for accelerated product engineering.
10+ YOE10+ years building high-performance backend systems; Kubernetes expertise; SaaS focus; cloud infrastructure and security; leadership and mentoring; strong communication.
Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, CI/CD
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Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security
San Mateo, California, United States
$200k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Verkada
Verkada: Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.
8+ YOEBS/MS in CS/Engineering; 8+ years building Go/Python microservices on AWS with on-call experience; strong backend systems and architecture knowledge; familiarity with temporal, k8s, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, IAM, S3; IoT and security experience preferred.
Go, Python, AWS, temporal, k8s, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, IAM, S3
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Staff Backend Engineer
New York City or San Francisco
$250k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Town
Town: AI-powered productivity assistant that automates workplace workflows.
Experienced backend engineer with production experience scaling distributed systems, LLM/agent infrastructure, workflow orchestration, and defining technical direction in fast-moving startups.
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Software Engineer, Backend (Release Engineering)
San Francisco, California, United States
$148k-$200k/yr HybridFull Time
Benchling
Benchling: Cloud platform for biotechnology research and development.
2+ YOE2+ years software engineering experience, product-first mindset, expertise with a web framework (node or python), strong problem solving, ownership, communication, and interest in life sciences; brief AI exercise in interview.
node, python
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Backend Application Architect
Sunnyvale or Alpharetta
$160k-$240k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Fiserv
FiservNew York Stock Exchange: FI: Provides financial technology and payment processing services to institutions.
12+ YOE12+ years building enterprise backend systems in Java/JVM, strong experience with cloud, microservices, distributed messaging, databases, API design, and architectural leadership.
Java, JVM, Spring Boot, CQRS, Saga, Circuit Breaker, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, RESTful API, OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, Python, Go, Node.js, Next.js, Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Spring WebFlux, RxJava
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Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$135k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Fable Security
Fable Security: AI-driven platform managing human risk and employee security behavior.
3+ YOE3+ years developing backend software; experience designing, implementing, and owning production services; familiarity with relational DBs (Django or similar), APIs, ETL/data pipelines, distributed systems, and cloud tooling (AWS, Terraform, EKS).
Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Django, AWS, Terraform, EKS, GenAI
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