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🕒 2 days ago
Software Architect building TED’s Ruby on Rails media, identity, and conference platforms. Designing scalable back-end systems serving millions through reliable APIs and services.
🗽 New York – Remote
💵 $175k - $200k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 3 days ago
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Kubernetes Engineer building secure Amazon EKS platforms for Banner Health, a nonprofit healthcare system. Automating infrastructure, CI/CD, cloud operations, and application-team onboarding.
🏈 Alabama, Alaska, +34 more states – Remote
💵 $53 - $89 / hour
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 3 days ago
Staff Database Engineer implementing AWS multi-region replication for Solvd’s enterprise payments-platform migration. Building DynamoDB resilience, CDC pipelines, observability, and failover automation.
🕒 5 days ago
Back-end engineer building high-throughput AI orchestration and real-time infrastructure for Superhuman’s productivity platform. Scaling services across Mail and the broader product suite.
🕒 5 days ago
Database Engineer V designing CMS National Data Warehouse systems for federal healthcare reporting. Developing SQL, models, mappings, metadata, and Oracle/Redshift data structures.
🕒 6 days ago
Staff backend engineer building scalable database platforms for Affirm, which provides transparent buy-now-pay-later financing. Driving distributed storage strategy, database automation, reliability, and performance across mission-critical financial systems.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $204k - $264k / year
💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 6 days ago
Staff Backend Engineer shaping Affirm’s post-checkout order, refund, capture, and settlement systems. Driving reliable, scalable platform architecture for buy-now-pay-later transactions across the United States.
🏄 California, Connecticut, +3 more states – Remote
💵 $204k - $290k / year
💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 6 days ago
Managing database platform teams and architecture for Allstate, an insurer protecting households through auto, home, life, and retirement products. Driving scalable, secure, highly available database services.
🌽 Illinois – Remote
💵 $120k - $193.7k / year
💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2014-01
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 August 8
Staff Ruby engineer building GitLab’s AI-powered Duo Agent Platform repository flows. Leading autonomous agents, onboarding, architecture, and cross-team technical direction.
🕒 August 7
Enterprise Technical Architect helping HIKE2 clients modernize operations through Salesforce, data, AI, integrations, cloud, and custom applications. Hands-on architecture leadership from strategy through production delivery.
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🕒 August 7
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Staff Backend Engineer building APIs, infrastructure, and scalable health guidance services at Future. Driving backend systems, database performance, and microservice reliability for personalized lifelong health support.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $200k - $230k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 August 7
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Chief Architect owning CMS case-management architecture across AWS, healthcare interoperability, data, security, and applications. Guiding Commence’s data-driven solutions that improve healthcare outcomes and operational efficiency.
🌵 Arizona, Colorado, +23 more states – Remote
💵 $170k - $185k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
🕒 August 7
Staff Platform Architect evolving Experian’s enterprise data, analytics, and MLOps platforms. Designing AI-ready semantic infrastructure and governed access for users, products, and AI agents.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $133.1k - $239.6k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 August 6
Staff Product Engineer owning Dash0’s OpenTelemetry-native observability billing and metering infrastructure. Extending Stripe, cloud marketplace integrations, usage dashboards, and billing reliability at event scale.
🕒 August 6
Staff Backend Engineer building agentic systems that improve software development productivity at GitLab. Setting architecture, evaluating correctness, and scaling greenfield DevSecOps automation.
🕒 August 5
Platform Architect scaling secure AI and data platforms for Flex’s global manufacturing and supply chain ecosystem. Enabling multi-cloud deployment, governance, and developer self-service across GCP, Azure, and AWS.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $173.7k - $238.9k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 August 5
Principal Kubernetes Engineer building secure PaaS platforms for Leidos’ U.S. Space Force mission. Leading automation, security, scalability, and reliability across hybrid cloud environments.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $154.1k - $278.5k / year
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🔙 Backend Engineer
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🕒 August 5
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Staff Backend Engineer building Python-based distributed systems and serverless APIs for cloud-native core services. Designing event-driven data pipelines with AWS, asynchronous programming, security, and scalable backend architecture.
🕒 August 5
Software Engineer III building Java backend services and APIs for Ad Hoc, a company delivering scalable digital services to government agencies. Modernizing enterprise applications and supporting secure cloud-native delivery.
🕒 August 4
GenAI Architect designing scalable AWS Bedrock and AgentCore solutions for Quantiphi, an AI-first digital engineering company. Building LLM, RAG, and agentic AI systems.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💰 Series A on 2019-12
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
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The average salary for remote lead backend engineers in the US is $150,612 per year. This is based on data from 4,972 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.
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| Experience | Number of roles analyzed | Average Salary |
|---|---|---|
⚪️ Entry-level Backend Engineer (0 yrs) | 16 | $91,754 |
🟢 Junior Backend Engineer (1-2 yrs) | 324 | $119,200 |
🟡 Mid-level Backend Engineer (2-4 yrs) | 1,482 | $134,990 |
🟠 Senior Backend Engineer (5-9 yrs) | 2,733 | $154,433 |
🔴 Lead Backend Engineer (10+ yrs) | 417 | $207,759 |
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