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Staff Backend Engineer
United States
$184k-$225k/yr RemoteFull Time
Carbon Direct
Carbon Direct: Science-driven carbon management firm providing software and advisory services to organizations for emissions reduction and carbon removal.
Extensive backend engineering experience at staff level, technical direction, end-to-end platform ownership, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and production AI-augmented systems experience.
CI/CD, infrastructure as code, AI-augmented software systems, ISO 27001, SOC 2
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United States or Alabama or Alaska or Delaware or District of Columbia or Hawaii or Iowa or Louisiana or Mississippi or Nebraska or New Mexico or Rhode Island or South Dakota or West Virginia or Utah
$200k/yr RemoteFull Time
TeamSnap
TeamSnap: Private sports-management software serving youth teams, clubs, leagues, athletes, families, and coaches.
Staff-level backend expertise with strong Node, SQL, relational database, distributed systems, architecture, production operations, mentoring, and technical leadership experience.
Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby, Rails, SQL, React, Redis, Elasticsearch, BigQuery, CI/CD, SRE, DevOps, AI
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Staff Backend Engineer
New York City or Montreal
$230k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
Tetrix
Tetrix: AI investment intelligence platform for institutional investors in private markets.
10+ YOERequires 10+ years of backend engineering experience using Python, strong technical leadership, complex system architecture, engineer mentoring, and best-practice development in fast-paced environments.
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New York City or San Francisco
$250k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Town
Town: Town is a privately held applied-AI software building assistants that help people create and use software at work.
Experienced backend engineer with production experience scaling distributed systems, LLM/agent infrastructure, workflow orchestration, and defining technical direction in fast-moving startups.
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Staff Engineer - Backend
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Opiniion
Opiniion: AI-powered resident experience platform helping multifamily property managers collect feedback, manage reputation, and improve resident outcomes.
10+ YOE10+ years of backend development experience, staff-level technical scope, scalable SaaS systems expertise, backend architecture knowledge, proficiency in a backend language, cloud infrastructure, APIs, AI/LLM integration, CI/CD, testing, and mentoring.
Python, Java, Go, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, CI/CD, DevOps, LLM
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Staff Backend Engineer
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
$180k-$220k/yr HybridFull Time
Modulate
Modulate: Privately held voice-AI serving enterprises with audio intelligence for fraud, compliance, and safety.
8+ YOERequires 8+ years of software engineering experience, technical ownership, shipped product impact, systems thinking across backend services, APIs and data persistence, and strong communication. Cloud, infrastructure-as-code and ML experience preferred.
AWS, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps
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Staff Backend Engineer
New York City, New York, United States
$350k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
FOMO Labs
FOMO Labs: Private fintech operating a social-first crypto trading app for consumers on web and mobile.
6+ YOEStaff-level engineer with 6+ years of experience, autonomous execution skills, and crypto development experience; Solana or EVM experience preferred. React experience and personal crypto trading are pluses.
TypeScript, Go, Rust, Solana, EVM, React
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Staff Backend Engineer
Dallas, Texas, United States
RemoteFull Time
Emumba
Emumba: Private software engineering consultancy building cloud, AI, and enterprise systems for enterprises, startups, and SMBs.
5+ YOE5+ years Python backend experience, cloud-native/AWS exposure, distributed systems and event-driven architecture, asynchronous programming, strong testing and debugging skills.
Python, AWS, Flask, FastAPI, OAuth, JWT
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Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security
San Mateo, California, United States
$200k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Verkada
Verkada: Physical security platform for enterprise buildings and facilities.
8+ YOEBS/MS in CS/Engineering; 8+ years building Go/Python microservices on AWS with on-call experience; strong backend systems and architecture knowledge; familiarity with temporal, k8s, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, IAM, S3; IoT and security experience preferred.
Go, Python, AWS, temporal, k8s, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, IAM, S3
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Backend Engineer (Senior/Staff)
New York City, New York, United States
$175k-$225k/yr RemoteFull Time
Taxwire
Taxwire: Private sales-tax and VAT compliance platform and managed service for finance teams.
5+ YOE5–10+ years backend engineering experience; strong backend systems, data modeling, and compliance logic; proficiency with Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, pandas, duckdb), Postgres/SQL, and AWS; strong communication and ownership.
Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, pandas, duckdb, Postgres, SQL, AWS, LLMs, Playwright
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Staff Backend Engineer
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Veryable
Veryable: Private on-demand labor marketplace and workforce-management platform serving manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics operations.
6+ YOEBachelor's degree preferred in Computer Science or related field; 6+ years with backend technologies, JavaScript/TypeScript, relational databases and SQL; 3+ years with CI/CD tools; mentoring experience required.
JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Circle CI, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS, React, Angular, Vue.js
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$224k-$284k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atoms
Atoms: Private footwear making everyday sneakers for consumers.
8+ YOE8+ years building backend systems with Java/Go, experience with PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), RESTful APIs, microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD, and mentoring experience.
Java, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, GCP, Azure, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
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Staff Backend Engineer, AI Systems
United States or United Kingdom
$181k-$226k/yr RemoteFull Time
Mural Corporate
Mural Corporate: N AI-powered visual collaboration workspace helping businesses and teams align strategy with execution.
7+ YOE7+ years building and operating reliable backend systems; experience with distributed workflows, orchestration, observability, and familiarity with AI/LLM or agent systems.
Azure OpenAI, React, Node, MongoDB
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$224k-$284k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atoms
Atoms: Private robotics and physical-AI building automation for food, mining, and transport industries.
8+ YOE8+ years building backend systems; proficiency in Java or Go; experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis; cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Microsoft Azure); strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems; Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience; mentoring experience.
Java, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
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Staff Backend Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
$200k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Aurelian
Aurelian: Private AI software helping U.S. 911 centers automate non-emergency calls and support emergency call-takers.
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering experience, strong engineering fundamentals, autonomy, experience optimizing realtime systems and analytics, ability to solve complex technical problems.
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Staff Backend Engineer
New York or United States
RemoteFull Time
Astra
Astra: Fintech payments infrastructure providing APIs and automation for businesses to move money instantly across payment rails.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering, 3+ years technical leadership, strong systems engineering and CS fundamentals, experience with distributed systems, Python (Python 3), SQL/NoSQL, and Google Cloud Platform. Bachelor's required; Master's preferred.
Python, Python 3, NoSQL, SQL, Google Cloud Platform
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Staff Backend Engineer, Offerwall
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k-$261k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Unity
UnityNYSE: U: Develops tools for games and interactive experiences.
Staff-level backend engineer with technical leadership experience, large-scale distributed systems expertise, Go proficiency, gRPC knowledge, observability and messaging experience, and cross-team mentorship skills.
Go, gRPC, OpenRTB
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Staff, Backend Engineer
United States
RemoteFull Time
Sequen AI
Sequen AI: AI personalization and ranking platform serving enterprise consumer companies with dynamic search, recommendations, and discovery.
8+ YOE8+ years building scalable, high-performance distributed systems; expert Go; systems-level design for service-oriented architectures; product-focused platform engineering; experience partnering with ML teams.
Go (Golang), Python, kubectl, Kubernetes, Terraform, gRPC, RESTful, React
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Staff Backend Engineer, Search
United States or Philippines
$250k-$300k/yr RemoteFull Time
ClickUp
ClickUp: Private SaaS productivity and AI workspace helping teams manage projects, communication, documents, and software work.
7+ YOEBachelor's degree, 7+ years search/backend experience, expertise with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, distributed data systems, query/indexing optimization, and strong analytical and communication skills.
OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, TypeScript
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Staff MaaS Backend Engineer
San Jose or Austin
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Bitdeer
BitdeerThe Nasdaq Stock Market LLC: BTDR: Public Singaporean Bitcoin mining and AI cloud infrastructure serving enterprises with computing, datacenters, and mining solutions.
8+ YOERequires 8+ years backend experience, including 3+ years owning high-traffic multi-tenant APIs. Deep Go, Kubernetes, distributed systems, migrations, observability, LLM serving, security, and billing expertise required.
Go, Kubernetes, Envoy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, OAuth, OpenAI, Anthropic
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