Last updated 2026-06-24

500 Remote Backend Engineer Jobs in the United States ()

Browse 500 remote Backend Engineer jobs across the United States, including Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, and Backend Engineer roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.

Backend Engineer jobs in the United States

Browse Backend Engineer jobs in the United States from companies including Coinbase, Affirm, WEXWEXUS, Reddit, Upstart, Pivotal Health, and Grafana Labs.

  • Common titles include Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, and Backend Engineer.
  • Roles span senior, mid, entry, and intern levels.
  • Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, data engineer, backend software, and full stack roles.
  • Reported pay for remote Backend Engineer jobs in the United States ranges around $140,000-$235,000 annually (P25-P75 across 309 postings that disclosed pay).
  • Hourly remote Backend Engineer roles in the United States pay a median rate of $26/hr based on 3 postings.
  • Explore remote Backend Engineer salaries in Salary Explorer.

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Tenable, Inc.

Remote United States senior $183.5k/yr
Technical Leadership: Collaborate with other senior engineers to drive technical direction, fostering a culture of continuous improvement,… Your Role: We are looking for a true systems programmer who is obsessed with performance, concurrency, and low-overhead design.

Reddit

Remote United States senior $190k/yr
5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby,… You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences Bene…

Pindrop

Remote United States senior $130k/yr
Tackle complex software engineering problems in authentication, identity, and fraud prevention—contributing to architecture decisions, thre… As a senior engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to influence architecture, raise technical standards, and help strengthen a growing team…

Toast

Remote United States mid $159k/yr
Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services or libraries to production Understanding of automated testing, quality, and SDLC best… Here’s what you’ll be doing: Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable backend services supporting Toast's Voice AI…

PayNearMe, Inc.

Remote United States mid
Partner with the Engineering Managers, Product, and other Staff peers to shape the roadmap—develop deep expertise in both the technical… Own the architectural direction for agentic AI at PayNearMe in partnership with other engineering leaders.

Rushdown Studios

Remote United States mid $100k-140k/yr
Responsibilities Prototype and build cloud-based microservices in the backend. Our Role Rushdown Studios is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join us in support of our partner studio!

Valtech

Remote United States mid
Platform Database Engineer Location: US Remote About the Role The Platform Database Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, admin… This role blends deep database engineering expertise with SRE principles to ensure performance, reliability, scalability, and automation ac…

Inovalon

Remote United States mid Full Time $117k/yr
Overview The Staff Software Engineer L5 is a full-stack engineer who works across Agile teams to design, develop, test, and… Education Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (B.A./B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology required Expe…

Confluent

Remote United States mid Full Time
As a Staff Software Engineer I on the team, you will focus on advancing key layers of the Tableflow project,… What You Will Do: Storage Engine Development: Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and com…

WEXWEXUS

Remote United States mid Full Time $220k-255.8k/yr
Staff Data Platform Engineer , you will be the primary architect and visionary for the core data infrastructure that powers… Qualifications & Experience Experience: 15+ years in software engineering and distributed systems, with at least 4 years in a principal…

Jellyfish

Remote United States mid Full Time $200k-260k/yr
We're seeking a Staff Data Engineer who's passionate about building and scaling robust data infrastructure, defining integration patterns,… And understand the unique infrastructure demands they create You have production experience with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Air…

Hatch

Remote United States senior Full Time
Engineers own problems end to end, ship to production early, and work across a modern stack (Elixir, Python, Go, React… Deep understanding of backend systems, API design, and data modeling - comfortable owning features end-to-end from architecture to producti…

Kraken

Remote United States senior Full Time $110.4k-220.8k/yr
This team operates at the intersection of AI, backend systems, and applied product engineering. Engineers on this team move fluidly between experimentation and shipping, building systems that reason over user interactions and take mean…

Forma

Remote United States senior Full Time
This role is fullstack-preferred, but we're also open to strong backend engineers who are eager to grow into fullstack work. Strong proficiency in TypeScript (Node.js), or a willingness to learn quickly Frontend experience with React and TypeScript (strongly prefe…

Coinbase

Remote United States senior $186.1k/yr
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization. What you'll do: Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing using Go, ensuring high reliability and c…

Planet

Remote United States senior $172.2k/yr
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help evolve this platform. The ideal candidate works independently, takes ownership of technical direction, has experience building large-scale backend systems, and s…

Spark Advisors

Remote United States mid
Your day-to-day responsibilities will be diverse: you’ll engage in both frontend and backend development, partner with product and design l… As a staff-level member of our engineering team, you’ll own meaningful pieces of our technical roadmap and set a high…

LaunchDarkly

Remote United States mid
5+ years of backend software engineering experience. In this role, you’ll build and improve backend services that sit directly on LaunchDarkly’s critical delivery path, partner closely with…

Viktor

Remote United States mid Full Time
Even Better If You've worked on infrastructure, platform, or developer-tools teams where reliability was the product. You're at home in AI-assisted, spec-to-production engineering workflows.

Vic.ai

Remote United States senior Full Time
Experience building and operating scalable backend services and APIs. Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.

Tern Travel

Remote United States mid Full Time $140k-170k/yr
As the implementation tooling engineer, you turn that manual work into infrastructure. Strong in a backend stack and SQL, with real experience building data pipelines and background-job systems that run reliably at…
Remote United States mid Full Time $116.3k-145.4k/yr
Role Summary We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Cloud Engineer proficient in Java and Kotlin to join the Connectivity… In this role, you will work on cutting-edge systems—managing a diverse ecosystem of both container-orchestrated workloads on Kubernetes and…

Rillet

Remote United States mid Full Time $150k-270k/yr
What You'll Do Own features and systems end-to-end across the full stack, from backend architecture to the interfaces users interact… Who We Need Experienced software engineers who drive real business impact — whether that's owning a product capability, leading a…

TeamSnap

Remote United States mid Full Time
We are looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer who can build and improve APIs and services, reason through production… Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams to turn roadmap needs into durable back…

Fathom

Remote United States entry Full Time
ROLE OVERVIEW We are looking for a backend engineer who is passionate about improving reliability, scalability, and efficiency of mission-c… By 1 Year Work with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our…
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