Last updated 2026-06-18
74 Backend Engineer jobs in Boston ()
Browse 74 Backend Engineer jobs across Boston, including Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Backend Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, and Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Health) roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.
Backend Engineer jobs in Boston
Browse Backend Engineer jobs in Boston from companies including Lila Sciences, Whoop, ZoomInfo Technologies LLC, WEXWEXUS, Pickle Robot Company, Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V, and Scribd, Inc..
- Common titles include Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Backend Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, and Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Health).
- Roles span mid, senior, and entry levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend software, backend engineer, full stack, and software development roles.
- Most listed roles are in Boston (47), with openings also in Cambridge (10), Waltham (6), Charlestown (3), and Wakefield (3).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineer jobs near Boston ranges around $125,000-$203,625 annually (P25-P75 across 58 postings that disclosed pay).
- Explore Backend Engineer salaries in Massachusetts in Salary Explorer.
Backend Engineer jobs in Boston
Browse Backend Engineer jobs in Boston from companies including Lila Sciences, Whoop, ZoomInfo Technologies LLC, WEXWEXUS, Pickle Robot Company, Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V, and Scribd, Inc..
- Common titles include Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Backend Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, and Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Health).
- Roles span mid, senior, and entry levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend software, backend engineer, full stack, and software development roles.
- Most listed roles are in Boston (47), with openings also in Cambridge (10), Waltham (6), Charlestown (3), and Wakefield (3).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineer jobs near Boston ranges around $125,000-$203,625 annually (P25-P75 across 58 postings that disclosed pay).
- Explore Backend Engineer salaries in Massachusetts in Salary Explorer.
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Boston
mid
Full Time
$170k-230k/yr
As a Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning on our Clinical Health team, you will design, build, and operate the production…
You will provide technical leadership across ML infrastructure, inference services, data pipelines, and platform architecture, ensuring our…
Backend Software Engineer
Jun 15
Boston
senior
Full Time
$127k-171k/yr
Our Backend Software Engineer can expect to work with the latest backend technologies and programming languages.
What We Need: At least 8-10 years of proven experience in Backend development.
Backend Software Engineer
Jun 12
Boston
senior
$127k/yr
Our Backend Software Engineer can expect to work with the latest backend technologies and programming languages.
What We Need: At least 8-10 years of proven experience in Backend development.
Boston
mid
Full Time
$140.6k-173.1k/yr
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Semantic Data Team, you'll play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining…
Develop and share patterns, prompts, and workflows that help the team get more leverage out of AI tooling, raising the…
Waltham
senior
$140k/yr
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Backend Platform team, you’ll design and build the systems that power complex workflows,…
You’ll work on highly scalable backend services that coordinate millions of events and workflows, enabling reliable automation and data pro…
Boston
mid
Basic Qualifications - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 2+ years of non-internship design or archi…
We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to design and build core components of our CI systems — from distributed…
Boston
mid
$184k-232k/yr
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Search team, you will be the senior technical owner of the Search Platform:…
This is a rare opportunity to lead a search platform build at a company with significant scale and a rich…
Boston
senior
Full Time
$120k-202.5k/yr
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our backend and data platforms, shaping architecture, engi…
You will partner closely with product, data, risk, and business stakeholders to deliver financial grade systems that meet stringent require…
Charlestown
mid
Full Time
$120k-177k/yr
Responsibilities Own the design and implementation of backend projects, working independently with strategic guidance.
We're looking for a strong software engineer who cares deeply about code quality, system design, and performance — someone who…
Software Engineer
Jun 5
Boston
mid
Full Time
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working across the full development lifecycle—from architecture and design through implementa…
As a Software Engineer III , you will contribute directly to the design, development, and optimization of scalable systems that…
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Senior Software EngineerMay 5
Boston
senior
Senior Software Engineer | Datadog Careers Careers Welcome Culture Workplace Benefits Candidate Experience Inclusion Learning & Development…
In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including…
Staff Software Engineer
Jun 4
Boston
mid
Full Time
Required Experience 8+ years building production backend or full-stack systems, with Staff-level ownership of large or ambiguous technical…
What You’ll Own Design, build, and maintain critical backend systems across capture services, shared platform models, event pipelines, asyn…
Cambridge
senior
$144k/yr
We are seeking Senior Software Engineers with full stack experience to join our Scientific System of Record Team (SSR), where…
Strong expertise in at least one of the following areas, with the ability to work across the stack: front-end engineering,…
Boston
senior
$144k/yr
Responsibilities Compose elegant, efficient, reliable and maintainable source code in C, with some C++ Analyze, develop and optimize algori…
The database kernel team needs a creative and motivated developer to join them in designing, implementing and enhancing components of…
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 1
Wakefield
senior
Full Time
$102.2k-189.8k/yr
5-8 years of strong software engineering experience, with significant expertise in large-scale data engineering and distributed systems arc…
Work hands-on across the technology stack - including Python, PySpark, Apache Spark, Databricks, AWS services, event-driven architectures,…
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Senior Software EngineerMay 5
Boston
senior
$112.9k-225.9k/yr
Senior Software Engineer (Go) Catapult is building the future of sports performance technology, with a mission to Unleash the Potential…
WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY We are looking for a talented and inquisitive…
Waltham
mid
Full Time
The Atlas Applications team is seeking a versatile full stack engineer to build and integrate the systems that make Atlas…
Requirements 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong full stack background spanning frontend, backend, and L…
Boston
senior
$107k-216k/yr
Principal Python Backend Engineer Bring a builder's mindset to Fidelity's Enterprise AI/ML Platform and help us scale the next generation…
What you bring Engineering perspective: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with the majority spent building and oper…
Boston
mid
$146.6k-215.1k/yr
About the Role We are seeking an exceptionally talented and hands-on Staff Backend Software Engineer to drive the technical direction…
Required Skills & Qualifications Extensive professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent leading technical proj…
Boston
senior
$148k/yr
As a Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform , you’ll play a key role in designing and scaling the backend systems…
Senior Software Engineer - Agent Platform At Klaviyo, we believe the future of software lies not in productivity tools for…
Boston
mid
Full Time
$126k/yr
Collaborate across teams: Partner with ML Engineering, Search & Discovery, the Content Library squad, and Product to build systems that…
Current focus areas include: Improvements to upload flow Content quality and early-stage validation OCR and content extraction for downstre…
Boston
mid
$180k-210k/yr
Experience with AWS infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and CI/CD workflows.
Work with data science and analytics staff to build clean, well-designed tools and libraries for our back-end data processes, making…
Cambridge
mid
$207k-300k/yr
Be responsible for managing a team of software engineers who are responsible for delivering key capabilities on Spanner's relational roadma…
We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably.
Boston
senior
Significant real-world experience developing software for production systems Extensive Can-Do attitude Hands-on experience and proficiency…
We are looking for an experienced, hands on Senior software engineer to join our fast growing company and in a…
Senior Software Engineer
May 20
Boston
senior
$145.9k-191k/yr
You will play a pivotal role in shaping our software architecture, driving SDLC best practices, improving system stability and observabilit…
Contribute to the design, implementation, and management of our backend and frontend for R&D data acquisition.
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