Carpentersville • 50 milesRemote · Hybrid · Onsite · Field · All Environments
Carpentersville • 50 milesRemote · Hybrid · Onsite · Field · All Environments
Carpentersville • 50 milesRemote · Hybrid · Onsite · Field · All Environments
Carpentersville • 50 milesRemote · Hybrid · Onsite · Field · All Environments
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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
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.
Node.js, Python, Elasticsearch, Redis
4w
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Senior Backend Java Engineer (Chicago Hybrid)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$130k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
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.
Java, Python, GCP, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, Anthropic Claude, LLMs, RAG systems, AI coding assistants
2w
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Senior Backend Engineer - Java
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/yr RemoteFull Time
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
4w
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Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery
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/yr OnsiteFull Time
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.
Go, Java, Rust
1mo
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Backend / Frontend Developer Intern
Chicago, Illinois, United States
OnsiteInternship
0+ YOEInternship seeking motivated, detail-oriented students skilled in frontend or backend development.
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, REST APIs, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, AWS
1mo
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Sr. Backend Dev – Java/Spring Boot, Angular, Cloud - TX
Texas or Chicago or New York City
$44k-$154k/yr HybridFull 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.
Java, Spring Boot, Angular, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, RESTful APIs, Microservices, Kafka, Pub/Sub
5d
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Backend / Platform Developer Consultant (Temporal & Kubernetes)
Chicago or United States
RemoteFull Time
Experienced in building and operating JVM services, Temporal workflows, Kafka event streams, Kubernetes on AWS, CI/CD/GitOps, observability, and platform engineering; strong Java and systems-engineering skills.
Java, JVM, Spring Boot, Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Temporal, Apache Airflow, Prefect, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Avro, Protobuf, MSK, Confluent, GraphQL, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, ArgoCD, Flux, Terraform, OpenTofu, Crossplane, ACK, controller-runtime, kubebuilder, Helm, OCI, External Secrets Operator, Karpenter, KEDA, Istio, SPIFFE, SPIRE, SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, JWT, gRPC, REST
3w
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Staff Back End Engineer, Trading
Chicago or New York City or Los Angeles or San Francisco or Culver City or Dallas
$200k-$285k/yr RemoteFull Time
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
6d
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AI & Distributed Systems Backend Engineer - Senior - Consulting - Location OPEN
Chicago or United States
$103k-$188k/yr HybridFull Time
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.
Java, C#, Spring Boot, .Net, .Net Core, AWS, GCP
5d
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend FinPlatform
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/yr RemoteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering experience, 4+ years with Java, experience with backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, AWS, and distributed teams.
Java, Spring, Gradle, JUnit, JVM, AWS, EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB, GitHub Actions, git, DataDog, Snowflake, CDK, Terraform
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Senior Java Developer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
HybridContract
12+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent experience, 8+ years Java/backend experience, 3+ years event-driven systems, 4+ years AWS, Apache Camel experience, hands-on AI/GenAI implementation, observability tooling, strong coding and problem-solving skills.
Java, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, AmazonMQ, Dynatrace, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Twilio, LLM
1w
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Lead Software Engineer - Backend
McLean or Chicago
$179k-$225k/yr OnsiteFull Time
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
2mo
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Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - NT Connect
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$100k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
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.
Java, Scala, Kotlin, REST, WebSocket, Kubernetes, GCP, OpenTelemetry, CI/CD, GitHub Copilot, Pub/Sub, Node.js
2mo
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Java Golang Developer (Atlanta, GA, US)
Atlanta or Chicago or Dallas or Nashville
$54k-$122k/yr HybridFull Time
Backend developer with Java and Golang experience; REST APIs, databases, Git, CI/CD, Linux; cloud and microservices experience preferred.
Java, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Git, CI/CD, Linux
1mo
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Lead Software Quality Engineering, Backend
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$150k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years in backend testing or software development; strong automation, cloud backend, data validation, and regulatory compliance experience.
Python, Kotlin, Java, SQL, BigQuery, Cassandra
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Principal Java Microservices Architect — AI & Agentic Platforms
Chicago or New York
$165k-$205k/yr OnsiteFull Time
12+ YOE12+ years software engineering, 7+ years microservices/architecture, expert Java (17/21), Spring Boot, cloud-native, containerization, observability, and AI/agentic backend experience.
Java 17, Java 21, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Project Reactor, RxJava, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets, REST, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Resilience4j, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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Principal Java Microservices Architect — AI & Agentic Platforms
Chicago or New York
$165k-$205k/yr HybridFull Time
12+ YOE12+ years software engineering, 7+ years microservices/system design/technical leadership. Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud platforms, observability, and AI/agentic backend systems.
Java (17/21), Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Reactive Java (Project Reactor / RxJava), gRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets, REST APIs, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Resilience4j, Redis, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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Software Engineer
Naperville, Illinois, United States
RemoteFull Time
3+ YOEMaster's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering with three years of related software development experience; design, cloud-native architectures, Java backend, AWS, databases, and containerization.
Java, AWS, React, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Glue
2mo
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Junior Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$80k-$100k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Entry-level software engineer; learn SDLC, backend, coding; BS in CS or related field or equivalent practical experience; Java/C/C++, JavaScript; Java Spring Framework; handling high-priority requests; startup adaptability.
Java, C/C++, JavaScript, Python, Spring Framework, Spring Boot
1mo
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Staff Full Stack Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$152k-$203k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering; expert React front-end; strong backend in Java/Kotlin/Node.js/Python/Go; cloud-native on AWS/GCP; relational and NoSQL databases; staff-level leadership; AI-native mindset.
React, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, Go, AWS, GCP, Relational DB, NoSQL
1mo
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Senior Software Engineer
Chicago or United States
$113k-$183k/yr RemoteFull Time
1+ YOEMaster's in Computer Science or related and 1 year experience developing backend/service-layer software. Requires Java, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, TDD practices, and Agile development experience.
Java, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Python
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