113 backend engineering jobs at 66 companies in New Jersey
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Manager, Field Platform – Backend Engineering
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
$119k-$145k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Design and improve platform/backend architecture, implement and monitor production solutions, define technical metrics, and produce high-quality reusable software and documentation.
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Lead Backend Engineer
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
$179k-$211k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years backend engineering experience; strong in Java or Kotlin; demonstrated lead-level IC experience; experience managing/mentoring remote/offshore engineers; strong cross-functional collaboration and ownership of backend AI initiatives.
Java, Kotlin, Zoom, Microsoft Teams
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Manager, Field Platform – Backend Engineering
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
$119k-$145k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Experience improving and maintaining production platform architecture, identifying and mitigating technical risks, producing high-quality software, defining technical metrics, and maintaining architecture documentation.
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Sr. Backend Engineer
Jersey City or New Jersey or New York
$160k-$190k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering; Bachelor’s in CS or related; hands-on Kotlin, Java, or Scala; Spring Framework; relational and non-relational DBs (MySQL, MongoDB); microservices and message queues (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ); strong testing and observability.
Kotlin, Java, Scala, Spring Framework, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ
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Senior Manager, Backend Services
New York City or Los Angeles or Chicago or Stamford or California or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Minnesota or Nevada or New Hampshire or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or Oregon or South Carolina or South Dakota or Texas or West Virginia or Wisconsin or Wyoming
$179k-$210k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOE2+ Mgmt7+ years backend engineering, 2+ years engineering management, GraphQL and REST API design, Node.js and cloud-native experience, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, strong communication and leadership.
GraphQL, Apollo, Hasura, REST, Node.js, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Pulumi, SQL, NoSQL, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Stripe, PayPal, Recurly, Auth0, Cognito, LoginRadius, Kafka, SNS, SQS
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Backend Engineer
California or Colorado or Georgia or Idaho or Illinois or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Michigan or Minnesota or New Jersey or New York or Ohio or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or Texas or Washington
$180k-$220k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years in data/software engineering, experience with large-scale data processing, advanced SQL, Python/OOP, cloud platforms, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
Apache Spark, Databricks, Flink, Beam, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Terraform
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Drupal Backend Engineer, (Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)
Baltimore or Alabama or California or Delaware or District of Columbia or Florida or Georgia or Maryland or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or Pennsylvania or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Virginia or West Virginia
$96k-$133k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years Drupal development with Drupal 11, ability to build custom modules/APIs, security and performance remediation, experience with DDEV/Docker, testing (Cypress, PHPUnit), Git workflows, and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
Drupal, DDEV, Docker, Xdebug, Cypress, PHPUnit, Git, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, PHPStorm, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Twig
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Sr. Backend Engineer
New York or Sunnyvale or Berkeley Heights or Alpharetta
$128k-$216k/yr OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent,10+ years software engineering,Java/JVM and Spring Boot expertise,cloud-native/Kubernetes and Terraform experience,SQL/NoSQL schema design,REST API architecture,mentorship and on-call experience.
Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT
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Senior Backend Software Engineer
Arkansas or California or Colorado or District of Columbia or Florida or Illinois or Massachusetts or Maryland or Maine or Michigan or New Jersey or Ohio or Pennsylvania or South Carolina or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington
$165k-$195k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend development experience with Python and FastAPI, strong backend architecture, relational modeling, AWS services, Docker, CI/CD, and cross-team communication.
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Flyway, AWS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, Docker, Git, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Claude Code, Cursor, Terraform, Terragrunt, Datadog, Sentry, LangGraph, Claude Code SDK, Amazon Bedrock
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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Node.js/TypeScript
New York or California or Massachusetts or Texas or New Jersey or United States
$120k-$150k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years backend engineering experience with Node.js/TypeScript, production services, regulated/compliance environments, relational data modeling, Docker, and microservices patterns.
Node.js, TypeScript, Docker, NestJS, Express, Fastify, Azure, Kubernetes, AKS, Temporal
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AVP, Back End Engineer
Whippany, New Jersey, United States
$146k-$175k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Experience building backend services with relational/NoSQL databases, server-side languages and frameworks, cloud and container platforms, secure coding, and automated testing; leadership or team lead experience preferred.
Postgres, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Java, Spring Boot, Python, Django, C#, C++, .Net, Nodejs, Go, REST, GraphQL, Docker, AWS, Azure, Open Shift
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Backend Software Engineer, Trading Systems & Data Platform
Mountain View or New York City or New Jersey
$110k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
Experience building reliable distributed systems, backend platforms or data infrastructure; strong programming skills (Python or similar); familiarity with Kafka, Kubernetes and cloud; knowledge of financial systems is a plus.
Python, Kafka, Kubernetes
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Senior/Staff/Principal Backend Engineer, Platform & Data Ingestion
San Francisco or New York City or Arizona or California or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Louisiana or Massachusetts or Minnesota or North Carolina or New Jersey or Nevada or New York or Ohio or Pennsylvania or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Washington or District of Columbia
$150k-$236k/yr HybridFull Time
4+ YOE4+ years building scalable APIs, microservices, and high-volume ETL; experience with Scala/Elixir or typed languages, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, OCR/document parsing, SQL and data modeling; strong communication skills.
Scala, Elixir, Java, C#, C++, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, OCR, Postgres, MySQL, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, GCP, Amazon SQS, Kafka, Google PubSub, TypeScript, Angular, React
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Senior Backend Engineer, Space Operations Intelligence & Autonomy (SOIA)
Colorado Springs or Alabama or Arizona or California or Colorado or District of Columbia or Florida or Georgia or Hawaii or Illinois or Indiana or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Michigan or Minnesota or Missouri or Montana or North Carolina or New Jersey or New Mexico or Nevada or New York or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Rhode Island or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington or Wisconsin or West Virginia or United Kingdom
$150k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software development, bachelor’s in CS or related, active security clearance (Top Secret preferred), experience with Java/Kotlin, Python, cloud (AWS), containers, distributed systems, Kafka, databases, and API design.
Java, Kotlin, GraphQL, GraphQL subscriptions, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Python, AWS, Helm, EKS, Git, GitHub Actions, Kafka, CloudEvents, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Three.js, HLA, DIS
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Senior Software Engineer, Back-End (Power Packs)
Santa Ana or California or New Jersey or Texas or Florida or Japan or Shanghai or Hong Kong or Canada or Mexico or Germany or France
$141k-$229k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years building backend/data-intensive systems; 4+ years with Java and Spring Boot; strong database and data modeling skills (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB); AWS, serverless, containerization, and API design experience; strong communication.
Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, AWS Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Apache Kafka, Python, pytest, unittest, Node.js, TypeScript, Claude, Twitch
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Manager, Software Engineering (Reliability Platform)
United States or California or Washington or New York or New Jersey or Connecticut or Los Angeles or San Francisco
$204k-$290k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE2+ Mgmt7+ years backend/full-stack engineering experience with 2+ years engineering leadership; SRE/production engineering experience; observability and platform-building experience; strong programming (Python, Kotlin, Java); Bachelor\u0002s degree or equivalent experience.
Python, Kotlin, Java
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Engineering Team Lead
District of Columbia or Delaware or Georgia or Massachusetts or Maryland or North Carolina or New Hampshire or New Jersey or Ohio or Pennsylvania or South Carolina or Utah or Virginia or Chalfont
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7+ YOE1+ Mgmt7+ years hands-on software engineering (backend Python or frontend React/TypeScript), 1+ year technical/team lead experience, experience with AI/agentic development, ownership of delivery, strong communication and mentorship skills.
Python, React, TypeScript, UNIX, AWS
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Software Developer, Backend Ads
San Francisco or Waterloo or New York City or Connecticut or New Jersey or Seattle or Los Angeles or San Diego
$149k-$299k/yr HybridFull Time
4+ YOE4+ years software engineering experience; strong CS fundamentals; experience with distributed systems, databases, APIs, and cloud infrastructure; proficiency in one or more modern programming languages; strong communication and collaboration skills.
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Lead Software Engineer - Backend/Java/Cloud
Jersey City or Columbus
$152k-$215k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years Java experience, system design and application development, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka, multi-region and cloud deployments, AI (Co-Pilot, LLM) familiarity, financial services knowledge.
Java, Spring Boot, REST API, Kafka, Co-Pilot, LLM, AWS, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, Cassandra
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Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Assistant Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing)
Boston or Princeton or Austin or Quincy or Clifton
$90k-$158k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering experience building backend services, APIs, distributed systems and cloud-native applications; strong engineering fundamentals; Bachelor's preferred; experience with Java/Kotlin/Python/TypeScript; Agile and production support experience.
Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, RESTful APIs, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes
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