91 backend java developer jobs at 55 companies in Illinois
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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yrOn-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
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.
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Help us build a 100× better job search engine. We need a full-stack engineer with great taste, sharp fundamentals, and a track record of shipping polished product on React/Next.js plus a real backend (Firebase, Elasticsearch, Redis, Stripe).
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/yrRemoteFull Time
RealNasdaq: REAX: Technology-driven brokerage offering residential real estate and title services.
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
Motorola SolutionsNYSE: MSI: Provides mission-critical communications and public safety technology.
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.
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/yrOnsiteFull Time
LaunchDarkly: Provides a feature management platform for software development teams.
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.
New York City or California or Colorado or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Minnesota or North Carolina or New Hampshire or New Jersey or Nevada or New York or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington
$170k-$220k/yrHybridFull Time
HiBob: Cloud-based human resources management platform for mid-sized businesses.
6+ YOE6+ years backend software engineering; experience with Kotlin, Java, or Scala; relational DBs (PostgreSQL/MySQL); AWS; testing and TDD; owning features end-to-end and collaborating with product.
New York City or California or Colorado or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Minnesota or North Carolina or New Hampshire or New Jersey or Nevada or New York or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington
$170k-$220k/yrHybridFull Time
HiBob: HR software platform for managing employee lifecycle and engagement.
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering experience; Kotlin, Java, or Scala; relational DBs (PostgreSQL/MySQL); AWS; testing (unit/TDD); feature ownership and product collaboration; scalable architecture and design.
New York City or California or Colorado or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Minnesota or North Carolina or New Hampshire or New Jersey or Nevada or New York or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington
$170k-$220k/yrHybridFull Time
HiBob: Provides cloud-based human resources and workforce management software.
6+ YOE6+ years backend software engineering; experience with Kotlin/Java/Scala, relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), AWS, testing methodologies, and owning features end-to-end while collaborating with product managers.
New York City or California or Colorado or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Minnesota or North Carolina or New Hampshire or New Jersey or Nevada or New York or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington
$170k-$220k/yrHybridFull Time
HiBob: Provides a cloud-based human resources management platform for businesses.
6+ YOE6+ years backend software engineering experience; proficiency with Kotlin, Java, or Scala; relational DB experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL); AWS; testing and scalable architecture; proven end-to-end feature ownership and product collaboration.
New York City or California or Colorado or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Minnesota or North Carolina or New Hampshire or New Jersey or Nevada or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Virginia or Washington
$170k-$220k/yrHybridFull Time
HiBob: Provides a cloud-based HR platform for mid-sized businesses.
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering experience; proficiency with Kotlin/Java/Scala, relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), cloud platforms (AWS); experience owning features end-to-end, testing, scalable architecture, and collaborating with product.
Sr. Backend Dev – Java/Spring Boot, Angular, Cloud - TX
Texas or Chicago or New York City
$44k-$154k/yrHybridFull 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.
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/yrOnsiteFull Time
Slingshot Aerospace: Software and data analytics for space operations management.
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.
Chicago or New York City or Los Angeles or San Francisco or Culver City or Dallas
$200k-$285k/yrRemoteFull Time
Altruist: Provides a digital custodian and portfolio management platform for advisors.
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
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/yrHybridFull Time
Verana Health: Curates real-world clinical data to accelerate medical research and insights.
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.
AI & Distributed Systems Backend Engineer - Senior - Consulting - Location OPEN
Chicago or United States
$103k-$188k/yrHybridFull Time
EY: Global firm providing audit, tax, and professional consulting services.
2+ YOEBachelor's degree required, minimum 2 years software experience, 3-5+ years with Java or C# and Spring Boot/.Net, unit testing/TDD, cloud (AWS/GCP) preferred, strong communication and agile experience.
New York City or San Francisco or Salt Lake City or Los Angeles or Seattle or Austin or Washington or Philadelphia or San Diego or Chicago or Atlanta or Australia or Canada or South America
$146k-$215k/yrRemoteFull Time
Flex: A financial platform allowing renters to split monthly rent payments.
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering experience, 4+ years with Java, experience with backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, AWS, and distributed teams.
NinjaTrader: Provides futures brokerage services and a trading software platform.
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.
Agile Defense: Provides IT modernization and cybersecurity for federal government agencies.
5+ YOESenior full stack developer with 5+ years in Java/.NET, AWS GovCloud, REST APIs; DoD/federal experience preferred; ability to obtain security clearance.
Capital OneNYSE: COF: Financial services offering credit cards, banking, and loans.
4+ YOE1+ MgmtBachelor's degree and 4+ years software engineering experience, 1+ year cloud experience, proficiency in Java/Python/Go/Node/Scala, cloud and container technologies, and people management experience preferred.
Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud