121 python backend developer jobs at 76 companies in Illinois
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Senior Backend Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$110k-$140k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience; strong Go and Python skills; JavaScript/TypeScript desirable; experience with microservices on AWS or GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, streaming platforms (Kafka/Kinesis/MQTT), and SQL/NoSQL databases; BS/MS preferred.
Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, Kafka, Kinesis, MQTT, SQL, NoSQL
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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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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 Engineer, Safety
United States or San Francisco or Los Angeles or New York City or Chicago
$191k-$267k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5–8 years of software development experience, proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby, API design experience, cross-functional collaboration, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, gRPC
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Senior Backend Engineer, Experimentation
United States or 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
$163k-$264k/yr RemoteFull Time
6+ YOERequires 6+ years of software engineering experience, backend production systems expertise, Go or comparable language skills, distributed systems and data-intensive product experience, cloud operations, and observability practices.
Go, Python, Rust, C++, ClickHouse, Postgres, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks
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Principal Backend Engineer – Music Discovery Platform - Roon
New York or Illinois or Florida or Tennessee or Oregon or Kentucky or Connecticut or Kansas or California or Colorado or Missouri or Idaho or Arizona or Minnesota or Montana or Massachusetts or Indiana or District of Columbia or Michigan
$125k-$184k/yr RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years developing backend services; proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go; expertise in APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, and CI/CD; leadership and mentoring experience.
Node.js, Python, Go, GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Kafka, RabbitMQ, C#, .NET
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Senior Backend Software Engineer (USA Remote)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$112k-$187k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend development experience; strong Java preferred; experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB; serverless and microservices knowledge; Git and CI/CD experience; strong problem-solving skills.
AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Java, Python, Node.js, Git, GitHub Actions
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Knowledge Engineer Manager - Back-end Engineer
Seattle or Milwaukee or Dallas or Columbus or Kirkland or Cincinnati or New York City or Cleveland or Oklahoma City or Austin or Albany or Chicago or St. Petersburg or Hartford or Pittsburgh or St. Louis or Miami or Sacramento or Raleigh or Minneapolis or Mountain View or Scottsdale or San Francisco or Morristown or Denver or Boston or Philadelphia or Des Moines or Overland Park or Los Angeles or Charlotte or Walnut Creek or Carmel or Houston or Arlington or Atlanta or Redmond or Bentonville or Beaverton or Nashville or Detroit or San Diego
$80k-$294k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEMinimum 5 years in knowledge graph hydration, ontology mapping, graph and relational databases, vector databases, Python or Java, and REST API development; bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
RDF, OWL, SKOS, RDFS, SPARQL, R2RML, CSVW, SHACL, GraphDB, Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Python, Java, SQL, JSON, XML, CSV, REST APIs, Apache NiFi, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB, GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Git, GraphQL APIs, D3.js, Cytoscape.js, Terraform
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Knowledge Engineer Manager - Back-end Engineer
United States or Albany or Arlington or Atlanta or Austin or Beaverton or Bentonville or Boston or Carmel or Charlotte or Chicago or Cincinnati or Cleveland or Columbus or Culver City or Denver or Des Moines or Detroit or Hartford or Houston or Irving or Kirkland or Miami or Milwaukee or Minneapolis or Morristown or Mountain View or Nashville or New York City or Oklahoma City or Overland Park or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or Raleigh or Redmond or Sacramento or San Diego or San Francisco or Scottsdale or Seattle or St. Louis or St. Petersburg or Walnut Creek
$80k-$294k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years in knowledge graphs, ontology mapping, R2RML, graph and relational databases, vector databases, Python or Java, REST APIs, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
RDF, OWL, SKOS, RDFS, SPARQL, R2RML, CSVW, SHACL, GraphDB, Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Python, Java, SQL, JSON, XML, CSV, REST APIs, Apache NiFi, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB, GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Git, GraphQL, D3.js, Cytoscape.js, Terraform
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Lead Software Engineer, Back End
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$179k-$205k/yr OnsiteFull Time
4+ YOEBachelor's degree, 4+ years software engineering experience, 1+ year cloud experience, proficiency in Java/Python/SQL/Node/Go/Scala, experience with Docker/Kubernetes and AWS, strong communication and critical thinking.
Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
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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
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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
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend Services
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$150k-$170k/yr HybridAll Commitments Available
5+ YOESenior Python engineer with 5-7 years in large-scale systems, building SaaS/PaaS, and data management experience.
Python, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, SQL, REST, AWS, Docker, PySpark, Kafka, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Lustre, GPFS, VAST, Parquet, S3, Security: OAuth2, SAML, OpenID Connect
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Software Engineer (Cloud & Backend)
Dublin or London or Singapore or Hyderabad or New York City or Chicago or Fort Worth or Switzerland or South Africa or Slovenia or United Arab Emirates
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5+ YOE5+ years in software engineering; 3+ years in AWS cloud engineering, Python backend development, and CI/CD pipeline management. Experience with databases, AWS architecture, Lambda, and API Gateway required.
Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EC2, Terraform, GitLab, CI/CD
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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End (Go, Python, Java)
McLean or Chicago
$209k-$262k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE1+ MgmtBachelor’s degree, 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, 1+ year of cloud computing experience, and expertise in backend development, microservices, and distributed systems.
Go, Python, Java, SQL, Node, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, GCP, RDBMS, NoSQL, Agile
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Software Engineer, Backend
New York City or San Francisco or California or Colorado or Florida or Idaho or Illinois or Maine or Maryland or Nevada or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or North Dakota or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or Tennessee or Texas or Virginia or Washington
$160k-$240k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years of software development; proficiency in Python, REST APIs, SQL, TypeScript, React, AWS, distributed systems, testing, CI/CD, and AI/LLM applications.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, REST, AWS Lambda, AWS, SQL, pytest, CI/CD, AI, LLMs
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Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core
San Francisco or Ottawa or Phoenix or Toronto or Los Angeles or Denver or Salt Lake City or Atlanta or Chicago or Houston or Portland or New York City or Vancouver or San Diego or Sacramento or Jacksonville or Seattle or Mexico City or Austin or Miami or Boston or Dallas or Charlotte
$141k-$267k/yr HybridFull Time
Significant backend engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems; strong coding in Ruby/Scala/Go/Python; expertise in reliability, observability, SLOs, and mentoring; cross-functional collaboration experience.
Ruby, Scala, Go, Python
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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End (Go, Python, Java)
McLean or Chicago
$209k-$262k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE1+ MgmtBachelor's degree and 6+ years of professional software engineering experience required, including 1+ year of cloud computing. Preferred: 9+ years with Go, Python, or Java and 1+ year of people management.
Go, Python, Java, SQL, Node, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Open Source RDBMS, NoSQL, Agile
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Senior Software Engineer, Platform/Backend
United States or Austin or San Francisco or New York City or Seattle or Bellevue or Los Angeles or Chicago or Gurugram or Delhi or Bengaluru
$170k-$230k/yr RemoteFull Time
6+ YOERequires 6+ years of software development experience, API product development using Python or Golang, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and familiarity with RDBMS, Docker, AWS, and Agile methods.
Golang, Python, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, OpenSearch, Docker, AWS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Cognito, RDBMS, API
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Senior Go Lang Engineer
Chicago or Menlo Park
$130k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science or STEM and 7+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent advanced-degree experience. Requires deep Go proficiency, microservices, databases, scalable systems, testing, and cloud technologies.
Go, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Python, Service Mesh, Containers, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
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