19 staff backend engineer jobs at 13 companies in Colorado
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Staff Backend Software Engineer
Denver or Beaverton or Seattle or Springfield or Bengaluru
$172k-$223k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years backend experience with Node.js/TypeScript, AWS (EKS, MSK/Kafka, S3), document databases (DocumentDB/MongoDB), Terraform, observability and on‑call practices; strong system design and technical leadership skills.
Node.js, TypeScript, Express, AWS, EKS, MSK (Kafka), Kafka, S3, Lambda, DocumentDB, MongoDB, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, Terraform, Kubernetes
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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/yr HybridFull Time
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.
Scala, Elixir, Java, C#, C++, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, OCR, Postgres, MySQL, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, GCP, Amazon SQS, Kafka, Google PubSub, TypeScript, Angular, React
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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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Staff Software Engineer
Denver, Colorado, United States
$150k-$180k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOESenior software engineer with 8+ years of experience, strong system design, backend and frontend skills, SQL, cloud, DevOps, and production ownership.
TypeScript/JavaScript, React, API contracts (tRPC), PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Playwright, AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD
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Staff Software Engineer
Columbus or Austin or Denver
HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years in software engineering; full-stack with backend/frontend; TypeScript, React, AWS, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL; AI-assisted tooling experience; strong CS fundamentals; fintech/lending experience a plus.
TypeScript, React, AWS, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot
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Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco or Denver or Nashville or Santiago
$190k-$264k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years software development experience, 3+ years project leadership; backend expertise (Ruby, Node.js), frontend familiarity (JavaScript, React); experience building scalable systems with automated testing and observability; strong communication and mentoring skills.
Ruby, Node.js, JavaScript, React
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Sr. Staff Engineer Software, Infrastructure Reliability (Chronosphere)
San Francisco or Denver or Austin or Jacksonville or Bridgeport or Seattle or Boston or New York City
$126k-$205k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOERequires 8+ years of relevant experience, backend programming proficiency, cloud-native and distributed systems expertise, Linux and networking knowledge, debugging skills, and experience with AWS or GCP and Kubernetes.
Go, Java, Python, Rust, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform, Cursor, Claude
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Pricing and Packaging
San Francisco or Denver or New York City
$189k-$278k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years of software engineering; 2+ years as tech lead; strong backend experience; distributed systems; AI tooling experience; cross-functional collaboration; excellent communication; BS degree or equivalent.
Ruby, Java, Python, Go
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Staff Security Engineer
New York City or Denver or Dallas or Miami or United States
$169k-$210k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years security engineering experience across application and cloud security, strong AWS security and IaC knowledge, experience in regulated environments (healthcare), ability to read backend code (Ruby, Node.js, Java), and experience with AI/LLM security guidance.
AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, SAML 2.0, OAuth, OIDC, Ruby, Node.js, Java, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, OWASP GenAI Security Project
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Staff+ Software Engineer - B2B Platform
Denver or San Francisco
$190k-$240k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering with backend focus; experience designing and scaling backend systems, APIs, distributed systems, and data platforms; proficiency in Python or Node.js and relational/NoSQL databases; strong system design and communication skills.
Python, Node.js, Relational database, NoSQL, APIs
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Staff Software Engineer- Retirement
United States or San Francisco or Denver or New York City or San Jose or Scottsdale
$163k-$247k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOERequires 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong services and APIs expertise, message-based systems, GraphQL, React, Ruby on Rails or comparable backend framework, and end-to-end production ownership.
Sidekiq, SQS, NServiceBus, GraphQL, React, Ruby on Rails
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Staff Software Engineer
Santiago or Denver or San Francisco or Nashville
$66496k-$78230k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years software development, 3+ years project leadership, backend expertise (Ruby, Node.js), frontend proficiency (JavaScript, React), bachelor’s or equivalent, fluent English, hybrid availability in Santiago (3 days/week).
Ruby, Node.js, JavaScript, React
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Staff SW Engineer
Denver, Colorado, United States
$124k-$199k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years relevant experience (or equivalent advanced degree/experience), strong backend development (e.g., Java), API and database expertise, systems integration and data structure knowledge, familiarity with Kubernetes/Docker, strong collaboration and communication.
Java, APIs, Kubernetes, Docker
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Staff Software Engineer
New York City or Colorado or California or United States
$195k-$225k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years professional experience in modern JS (Vue or React) or Python/backend web development with meaningful hands-on experience in both; proven domain-level architectural leadership, strong communication, product intuition, and fluency with AI developer tools.
Vue, React, Python, Django, AWS
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Staff Software Engineer - Search / AI
Rhode Island or Mississippi or Montana or North Carolina or Louisiana or Maryland or Maine or Minnesota or Nebraska or Missouri or North Dakota or New York or New Jersey or New Mexico or Nevada or Ohio or South Carolina or Texas or South Dakota or Vermont or Tennessee or Virginia or Washington or Utah or Wisconsin or West Virginia or Oregon or Wyoming or Oklahoma or Pennsylvania or Colorado or Alabama or Arizona or California or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Florida or Iowa or Arkansas or Idaho or Illinois or Kansas or Delaware or Georgia or Indiana or Kentucky or Michigan or Massachusetts or New Hampshire
$107k-$284k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering, 5+ years cloud-native app experience (GCP/Azure/AWS), backend programming in Java/Python/Kotlin/Go, microservices design, AI/LLM integration, search tech, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, observability.
GCP, Azure, AWS, Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, Elastic, OpenSearch, Solr, Lucene, GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI, Harness, Docker, Kubernetes, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), CI/CD
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Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
San Francisco or Ottawa or Charlotte or Phoenix or Toronto or Los Angeles or Denver or Salt Lake City or Atlanta or Raleigh 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
$145k-$275k/yr RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years building backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems; production Rust and strong Python; storage and database expertise; AWS, infrastructure as code, operational excellence, technical leadership, and mentoring.
Rust, Python, Apache Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion, Amazon S3, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon Aurora, Terraform, delta-rs, Claude Code
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Staff Software Engineer, Core Products
Denver or San Francisco or San Jose or New York City or Scottsdale
$163k-$247k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software development experience, full‑stack proficiency (frontend + backend), experience with large Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React codebases, AI tool fluency, mentoring experience, owning multi‑quarter projects.
Ruby/Rails, Javascript/React
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Staff Software Engineer (Web Automation & Open Banking Infrastructure)
California or Colorado or United States
RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years engineering experience building advanced web automation and browser-internal systems; deep TypeScript/JavaScript expertise; backend experience (Golang/Node.js/Python); security fundamentals; distributed systems knowledge.
TypeScript, JavaScript, Golang, Node.js, Python, Chrome Manifest V3, iOS WKWebView, Android WebView, WebSockets, WebAuthn, Passkeys
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Staff Software Engineer, Pricing and Packaging Engineering
San Francisco or Denver or New York City or San Jose
$197k-$247k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years building large-scale backend platform systems (commerce/billing/subscriptions preferred); strong distributed systems, API design, SLO, and mentorship experience; proven delivery of multi-quarter projects.
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