Last updated 2026-06-18
342 Backend Engineer jobs in New York City ()
Browse 342 Backend Engineer jobs across New York City, including Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Staff Backend Engineer, and Software Engineer, Backend roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.
Backend Engineer jobs in New York City
Browse Backend Engineer jobs in New York City from companies including Perplexity, Amazon, Galaxy, Disneycareers, MongoDB, Polymarket, and Sigma Computing.
- Common titles include Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Staff Backend Engineer, and Software Engineer, Backend.
- Roles span mid, senior, entry, and intern levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, member of, backend software, and data engineer roles.
- Most listed roles are in New York City (322), with openings also in Jersey City (8), Brooklyn (5), Hoboken (4), and Clifton (1).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineer jobs near New York City ranges around $146,000-$250,000 annually (P25-P75 across 233 postings that disclosed pay).
- Hourly Backend Engineer roles near New York City pay a median rate of $50/hr based on 5 postings.
- Explore Backend Engineer salaries in New York in Salary Explorer.
Backend Engineer jobs in New York City
Browse Backend Engineer jobs in New York City from companies including Perplexity, Amazon, Galaxy, Disneycareers, MongoDB, Polymarket, and Sigma Computing.
- Common titles include Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Staff Backend Engineer, and Software Engineer, Backend.
- Roles span mid, senior, entry, and intern levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, member of, backend software, and data engineer roles.
- Most listed roles are in New York City (322), with openings also in Jersey City (8), Brooklyn (5), Hoboken (4), and Clifton (1).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineer jobs near New York City ranges around $146,000-$250,000 annually (P25-P75 across 233 postings that disclosed pay).
- Hourly Backend Engineer roles near New York City pay a median rate of $50/hr based on 5 postings.
- Explore Backend Engineer salaries in New York in Salary Explorer.
Snapshot updated 3hr, 28m ago
Staff Backend Engineer
Jun 17
New York City
mid
Full Time
We are looking for a talented Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft user-friendly, responsive, and secure interfaces that operate…
About the Role At Commure, our engineering team is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare technology by building and scaling…
-
Staff Backend EngineerJun 17
New York City
senior
$140k-160k/yr
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own a slice of the platform end to end, taking features from requirements through…
Location This is a hybrid role based in NYC What You’ll Do Own a slice of the Claims platform end…
-
Senior PHP Software EngineerMar 25
New York City
entry
As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams…
In this role, you will be at the intersection of database internals and ML infrastructure and be responsible for designing…
New York City
senior
Full Time
$180k-210k/yr
About the Role We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join Pivotal's Growth & Onboarding team.
You'll build practical, customer-facing tools and workflows tied to onboarding and growth, working closely not just with product and engine…
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 17
New York City
senior
Full Time
What You'll Work On Product features end-to-end — UI through API through data layer Backend services in Python and TypeScript…
Not as a novelty but as your primary workflow Good instincts for API design, data modeling, and system architecture You…
Software Engineer, Backend
Jun 17
New York City
entry
Full Time
$175k-275k/yr
Responsibilities Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that power…
You’ll own critical backend systems end-to-end, partnering closely with product, design, client, and AI teams to turn ambitious ideas into…
Lead Backend Engineer (BFF)
Jun 17
New York City
senior
$225k-255k/yr
Collaborate with product, design, and client engineers to translate product requirements into scalable and performant backend solutions.
What you’ll do Design, build, and maintain horizontally scalable backend systems using TypeScript and Go to support millions of concurrent…
New York City
senior
Skills Requirements: Extensive experience going through the full feature development life cycle: Working with product managers, deciding sc…
About You: An ambitious Software Engineer using agentic workflows as a massive lever for engineering velocity.
Software Development Engineer, Demand Tech Trader Experience - Job ID: 10450783 | Amazon.jobs
Jun 16
New York City
mid
Basic Qualifications - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 2+ years of non-internship design or archi…
Our systems serve advertisers at Amazon scale, and you'll be responsible for building and maintaining both the React/TypeScript frontend an…
New York City
senior
Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform (NORAM) | Datadog Careers Careers Welcome Culture Workplace Benefits Candidate Experience Inc…
Experience building/operating large scale stateful systems Familiar with distributed systems concepts such as consensus, quorums, and repli…
Software Engineer
Jun 16
New York City
entry
$156.8k-235.2k/yr
What you’ll do Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripes engineering teams using Ruby, Scala,…
Position also requires the following: 2 years of experience working with Ruby, React, Typescript and AWS; 2 years of experience…
-
Growth EngineerJun 15
Sr. Data Engineer
Jun 16
New York City
senior
Full Time
$94k-152.7k/yr
What You Bring Required 4+ years of data engineering or software engineering experience, with a focus on data-intensive systems.
Job Description: We’re looking for an Identity Data Engineer who is passionate about data quality, intellectually curious about how real-wo…
New York City
senior
Full Time
What We're Looking For Senior backend engineering experience with a strong background in order-book-based exchange systems Deep knowledge o…
About the Role Polymarket is launching perpetual futures and we're looking for Senior Backend Engineers to own the core systems…
New York City
senior
Full Time
$135k-220k/yr
Responsibilities Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data processing systems supporting r…
You will primarily work on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale data platforms and pipelines that power our reporting, analytic…
New York City
senior
$185k/yr
Build out exciting features like dynamic multi-vendor account linking, duplicate account remediation, and new integrations with debt accoun…
Work in a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and designers to implement and support high-scale integrations.
New York City
mid
Full Time
$143.5k/yr
The engineer in this role will build and maintain full stack services that integrate with multiple data sources, external APIs,…
The role requires ensuring system reliability, performance, and data integrity across the platform while collaborating with internal and cl…
Brooklyn
senior
Full Time
$164k-193k/yr
This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Decision Systems.
As a Senior Engineer, your day-to-day involves a mix of technical leadership, hands-on implementation, and cross-functional collaboration f…
-
Senior Software EngineerJun 9
New York City
mid
Full Time
$240k-300k/yr
Deep experience building full-stack web applications.
Own architecture decisions for our tech platform and advise key product & infrastructure decisions, thinking ahead for what the company…
New York City
mid
Full Time
$220k-405k/yr
Strong system design skills, with a track record of building efficient, reliable, and scalable architectures, ideally including API integra…
Qualifications Experience designing and building backend systems that run in production (typically 4+ years for mid-level, more for senior…
New York City
senior
Full Time
$130k-160k/yr
RESPONSIBILITIES Design, develop, and optimize robust, highly scalable backend services and distributed systems in Golang to power our 24/7…
Develop backend services and operations, including proposing architectural decisions, participating in design reviews, coding, code review,…
New York City
senior
Full Time
Aescape is looking for a Senior or Staff level Backend Engineer that will work directly with a stellar team to…
What You'll Do Design and implement scalable, robust APIs in Golang that power our main applications Enforce best practices in…
Integrations Engineer
Jun 12
New York City
mid
Full Time
$120k-165k/yr
Serve as the technical counterpart to client IT teams and core/middleware vendors during implementation - scoping data requirements, review…
What We're Looking For 2+ years of hands-on integration or backend engineering in legacy systems , including work with legacy…
New York City
senior
Full Time
$180-270/hr
We are hiring a Staff or Principal Data Engineer to own the data platform and data lake at the heart…
Required Qualifications Extensive experience building and operating large-scale data platforms and data lakes, with comfort working at high…
New York City
senior
$275k/yr
In this position, you’ll design, develop, and optimize robust, scalable software back end that powers our web and mobile applications…
You will join a team of back-end developers, ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our platforms while collaborating with…
-
Member of Technical StaffJun 11
New York City
senior
Full Time
$140k-215k/yr
Mentor other engineers on web and backend engineers on use of our feature services.
Experience working on security products. #.
Page 1