Selected: 🔙 Backend Engineer.
Selected: 🇺🇸 United States – Remote USA.
Selected: 🔴 Leadership positions.
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🔥 2 hours ago
Chief architect leading High 5 Games’ Java microservices platform for social casino gaming. Owning cloud architecture, real-time transactions, reliability, security, and engineering leadership.
🕒 Yesterday
Staff Backend Engineer shaping search and recommendation systems for Affirm’s buy-now-pay-later shopping platform. Setting technical strategy, reliability standards, and scalable backend architecture.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $230k - $290k / year
💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 1%
🕒 Yesterday
Staff Backend Engineer building scalable GenAI applications, LLM systems, and backend APIs for CVS Health’s integrated healthcare platform. Leading architecture, evaluation, observability, and engineering practices.
🌽 Illinois, New York, +3 more states – Remote
💵 $106.6k - $260.6k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 Yesterday
Cloud Platform Architect designing secure, scalable AWS platforms for Modivcare’s healthcare transportation services. Building Pulumi infrastructure and guiding engineering delivery, governance, and compliance.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $116.7k - $180k / year
💰 $525M Post-IPO Debt on 2024-07
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 2 days ago
Platform Engineer running secure Kubernetes and AWS platforms for CBP and State Department applications. Automating cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, compliance, and federal application modernization.
🕒 3 days ago
5001 - 10000
Enterprise Technical Architect leading Blue Yonder WMS transformations for supply-chain enterprises. Designing integrations, cloud strategies, and governance for complex warehouse implementations.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $96.2k - $164k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 3 days ago
Cloud Services Manager leading cloud strategy, architecture, security, and optimization for Brown University Health. Managing cloud engineers and enterprise-scale projects.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $115.8k - $191k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 3 days ago
Staff backend engineer shaping identity decisioning, KYC, and lifecycle systems for Affirm’s buy-now-pay-later platform. Setting technical strategy and reliability standards for globally distributed backend services.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $204k - $290k / year
💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 1%
🕒 3 days ago
Technical Architect building Slack, Salesforce, and third-party integrations for enterprise customers. Leading hands-on architecture, implementation, workshops, and post-launch technical adoption at Salesforce.
⛰️ Colorado, Illinois, +3 more states – Remote
💵 $148.5k - $223.9k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 6 days ago
Principal Database Engineer architecting Veradigm’s healthcare database platform across AWS and Azure. Owning reliability, security, high availability, disaster recovery, and AI-augmented database operations.
🌐 United States, Canada – Remote
💵 $130.2k - $189.5k / year
💰 $75M Post-IPO Debt - Veradigm on 2025-06
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 1%
🕒 6 days ago
Power Platform Architect leading AI-enabled automation, governance, and enterprise delivery. Advancing Microsoft solutions for Sedgwick's insurance and claims services.
🕒 September 24
Staff Backend Engineer owning scalable backend systems for Afresh’s AI-powered grocery ordering platform. Defining architecture and enabling smarter grocery decisions that reduce food waste.
🏈 Alabama, California, +19 more states – Remote
💵 $168k - $253k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 September 23
Principal Technical Architect designing agentic AI systems and enterprise architectures for OutSystems’ unified low-code platform. Advising customers and mentoring teams on secure, scalable application delivery.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $153k - $186.3k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 September 22
Staff Platform Database Engineer defining resilient database infrastructure strategy at Chainguard. Building automation, global availability, and governance for secure open-source software supply chains.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $205k - $231k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 20%
🕒 September 22
Principal ServiceNow Platform Architect governing secure enterprise platforms for Federal Government digital transformation. Leading architecture, integrations, security, upgrades, and technical governance.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $160k - $190k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 September 22
5001 - 10000
Principal Technical Architect leading enterprise architectures for Blue Yonder’s supply chain transformation programs. Designing integrations, cloud strategies, and AI-enabled solutions for US customers.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $167k - $211k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 September 22
Staff Python Software Engineer architecting distributed data systems for Northbeam’s marketing intelligence platform. Building experimentation, real-time ingestion, and AI-powered marketing workflows.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $190k - $220k / year
💰 $15M Series A on 2022-08
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 21%
🕒 September 19
Platform Architect implementing Immuta data governance and security solutions for government and enterprise clients. Designing cloud architectures across Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $145k - $165k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 September 18
AI Platform Architect designing secure Azure IL-5 AI workflow platforms for CACI. Integrating ServiceNow, MLOps, RAG, and government compliance solutions.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $114.6k - $252.1k / year
🔥 Funding within the last year
💰 $500M Post-IPO Debt on 2026-02
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 September 18
Oracle Cloud Technical Architect leading ERP solution architecture for Peloton, a global Oracle consulting firm. Guiding integrations, governance, distributed teams, and client delivery.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $150k - $210k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
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The average salary for remote lead backend engineers in the US is $150,638 per year. This is based on data from 4,749 job openings. Our advanced AI searches the internet for remote job openings and posts them on our website. We use the salary data from these job postings to calculate salary expectations.
Below is a breakdown of salary data by years of experience:
| Experience | Number of roles analyzed | Average Salary |
|---|---|---|
⚪️ Entry-level Backend Engineer (0 yrs) | 14 | $100,750 |
🟢 Junior Backend Engineer (1-2 yrs) | 287 | $116,112 |
🟡 Mid-level Backend Engineer (2-4 yrs) | 1,395 | $134,921 |
🟠 Senior Backend Engineer (5-9 yrs) | 2,648 | $154,585 |
🔴 Lead Backend Engineer (10+ yrs) | 405 | $205,161 |
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