878 backend software engineer jobs at 433 companies in Fairfield, CA
🚀PromotedHiringCafe
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).
Lumafield: Accessible industrial CT scanners and cloud-based analysis software
2+ YOEBachelor's degree in Engineering or related field; 2+ years Python backend experience with web frameworks; experience with large dataset processing; strong software engineering fundamentals; team collaboration; Linux, Docker, production deployments.
Ketch: Data permissioning platform for automated privacy and compliance.
1+ YOE1+ year software engineering experience; strong backend development in Golang (or Java/Python/Scala); experience with cloud-native production systems, distributed systems, CI/CD, and databases; strong communication and collaboration skills.
Kiddom: Provides a digital curriculum and instructional platform for schools.
6+ YOEBS or MS in Computer Science; 6+ years software engineering; experience with backend systems, databases, cloud, containers, and distributed architectures.
Artos: AI-powered document authoring platform for life sciences R&D.
3+ YOE3+ years software development experience (AI/ML focus), BS/MS in CS/Engineering or equivalent, experience with GenAI, Python APIs (FastAPI/Django), containerized cloud deployments (Docker, AWS), CI/CD, and secure coding.
CHAOS Industries: Develops advanced radar and sensing systems for modern defense.
Experience building scalable backend services and cloud infrastructure, knowledge of Python, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD; eligible U.S. Person able to obtain security clearance.
Alpaca Health: Enabling clinicians to launch and scale independent autism care clinics.
Senior backend engineer with strong system-design and ownership; builds integrations, billing/payments, data pipelines, and AI/LLM infrastructure. Experience in operationally complex domains (healthcare, fintech, insurance) or early-stage startups preferred.
MotherDuck: Provides cloud-hosted serverless data warehousing built on DuckDB.
Backend engineering experience with distributed systems; strong performance and reliability focus; API design and observability know-how; collaborative, product-focused mindset.
Gamma: AI platform that generates presentations, documents, and websites from text.
3+ YOE3+ years building production backend systems; strong TypeScript/Node.js; distributed systems, databases, APIs; scalable systems; websockets/streaming nice to have.
San Francisco or Atlanta or Austin or Boston or Chicago or Dallas or Denver or Houston or Jacksonville or Los Angeles or Mexico City or Miami or New York City or Ottawa or Phoenix or Portland or Sacramento or Salt Lake City or San Diego or Seattle or Toronto or Vancouver or Washington, D.C.
$104k-$187k/yrHybridFull Time
Scribd: Subscription-based digital library for e-books, audiobooks, and documents.
4+ YOE4+ years as a software engineer; backend/data pipelines; comfortable with messy data; proficient in Ruby, Python, or Go; AWS experience; SQL; collaborative and communicative.
Windfall: Provides consumer financial data and AI-driven go-to-market insights.
5+ YOE5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience; expert OO programming; experience with transactional databases and distributed systems; strong communication and problem-solving skills; able to balance quality, complexity, and delivery speed.
GCP, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Google PubSub, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Docker
Rippling: Unified platform managing workforce HR, IT, and finance operations
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering experience; experience with distributed systems, distributed processing engines, big data technologies, mentoring developers, and building data platforms.
Python, MongoDB, CDC, Kafka, Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink, Rippling Query Language (RQL), Microsoft 365
Scribe: Automatically documents digital workflows into step-by-step process guides.
8+ YOE8+ years backend experience with Python, Typescript, or Go; distributed systems; messaging queues; data ingestion; microservices; AWS; performance optimization.