Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

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Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
As a Backend Engineer, you'll improve Git and Gitaly by contributing features, bug fixes, and performance improvements, collaborating with the open source community, and participating in architectural discussions.
Top Skills: CGitGitalyGoLinux
10 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Boston, MA
90K-150K Annually
Mid level
90K-150K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software
Design, build, and maintain backend services powering Clerkie's platform. Improve reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and support feature development. Participate in technical design, cross-functional collaboration, documentation, and own projects end-to-end in a fast-moving startup environment.
Top Skills: AWSEc2JavaScriptMongoDBNode.jsNoSQLS3
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Remote or Hybrid
Boston, MA
202K-238K Annually
Senior level
202K-238K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and operate backend services, lead technical initiatives, ensure reliability, and mentor team members in a remote-first setup.
Top Skills: DockerGCPGoJavaKubernetesPostgresPython
Reposted 13 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Boston, MA
211K-316K Annually
Senior level
211K-316K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Productivity • Software • Automation
As a Staff Engineer for Revenue, you'll shape technical vision and architecture for billing and pricing systems, ensuring correctness while enhancing cross-team collaboration.
Top Skills: APIsBilling SystemsPerformance OptimizationSubscription Management
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Hybrid
Boston, MA
120K-149K Annually
Senior level
120K-149K Annually
Senior level
Digital Media • Gaming • Information Technology • Software • Sports • Esports • Big Data Analytics
Build and maintain high-performance backend services in Go for a low-latency, high-throughput trading exchange. Design distributed systems, optimize performance, improve observability, and collaborate across Product, Data, and Ops to ensure resiliency and scalability.
Top Skills: APIsCloud-Native ArchitecturesFix ProtocolGoMicroservicesNosql DatabasesRelational Databases
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Hybrid
Boston, MA
209K-286K Annually
Senior level
209K-286K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Lead a portfolio of technology projects with a team of developers to create solutions for regulatory needs, collaborating on cloud-based projects while mentoring engineers.
Top Skills: Amazon SagemakerAWSCSSDatabricksDockerGoHTMLJavaJavaScriptKubernetesLuaMcpPythonSQLTypescript
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Hybrid
Boston, MA
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170K-230K Annually
Senior level
170K-230K Annually
Senior level
Fitness • Hardware • Healthtech • Sports • Wearables
Design and maintain backend services for WHOOP's healthcare platform, integrating advanced data insights and collaborating on feature development with cross-functional teams.
Top Skills: AWSJavaKafkaPostgres
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Boston, MA
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169K-240K Annually
Senior level
169K-240K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
The role involves designing and expanding backend systems, mentoring engineers, and executing technical strategies to modernize architecture and improve system performance.
Top Skills: AWSGrpcJavaKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonSnowflake
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Boston, MA
80-80 Annually
Mid level
80-80 Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Software • Defense
As a backend engineer, you will enhance data collection systems to ensure reliability and scalability, working closely with engineering and mission teams.
Top Skills: Browser AutomationDistributed SystemsPythonReactTypescript
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Remote
Boston, MA
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218K-257K Annually
Senior level
218K-257K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
The role involves owning the architecture and technical direction of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing high-reliability systems for global payment processing, and leading cross-functional collaborations to create efficient, compliant solutions. Responsibilities also include mentoring team members and enhancing operational excellence through AI-driven improvements.
Top Skills: Ai ToolsApi DesignBlockchain TechnologyDistributed SystemsFinancial InfrastructurePayment Gateways
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Boston, MA
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218K-257K Annually
Senior level
218K-257K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Lead architecture and technical direction for Payments platform, building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, defining roadmaps, ownership of production reliability, cross-functional partnership, and mentoring engineers to improve platform quality and scalability.
Top Skills: APIsDistributed SystemsGenerative AiMulti-Tenant ArchitectureObservabilityPayment SystemsSlos
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Boston, MA
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145K-200K Annually
Senior level
145K-200K Annually
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Cannabis • eCommerce • Enterprise Web • Logistics • Payments • Software • Database
Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for commerce workflows using Python/Django. Improve reliability, performance, and observability, operate AWS deployments, work with PostgreSQL and event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS), modernize legacy systems, and support CI/CD, testing, and production troubleshooting.
Top Skills: Amazon SnsAmazon SqsAWSCi/CdDjangoDjango Rest FrameworkDockerEvent BusesKubernetesPostgresPython
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Reposted 10 Days AgoSaved
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Hybrid
Boston, MA
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150K-215K Annually
Senior level
150K-215K Annually
Senior level
Fitness • Hardware • Healthtech • Sports • Wearables
The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of backend services and APIs, design system architecture, and collaborate closely with teams to evolve the Enterprise platform.
Top Skills: AWSJavaPostgresRestful Apis
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Remote
Boston, MA
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160K-180K Annually
Senior level
160K-180K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • eCommerce • Fintech • Payments • Retail • Software • Analytics
Senior backend-leaning full-stack engineer to design, build, and ship Rails + Hotwire features end-to-end. Own data modeling, PostgreSQL schema and performance, background job architecture, APIs, and scalability. Collaborate cross-functionally, conduct code reviews, and drive engineering best practices.
Top Skills: Background JobsGitHotwireJSONPostgresRuby on RailsRestful ApisRuby
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In-Office or Remote
Boston, MA
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Insurance • Mobile • Financial Services
You will tackle AI challenges, develop scalable software and collaborate with teams to enhance healthcare navigation using AI solutions.
Top Skills: AIAPIsGpt-4Machine LearningSoftware Development
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Hybrid
Boston, MA
140K-170K Annually
Mid level
140K-170K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Gaming • Machine Learning • Software • Virtual Reality • Cybersecurity
As a Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and scale APIs for Modulate's conversation intelligence platform, enhancing system performance and reliability while collaborating with product teams.
Top Skills: APIsPython
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Remote
Boston, MA
146K-218K Annually
Senior level
146K-218K Annually
Senior level
Insurance
Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs powering the insurance platform. Integrate payments, documents, and data providers, improve system stability, performance, and scalability, mentor team members, and participate in architectural decisions and agile ceremonies.
Top Skills: AirflowAiven DebeziumArcgisBigQueryCircleCICloud FunctionsCloud RunCloud SqlDatadogDonutFivetranGitGoGCPGoogle Cloud StorageJupyterKafkaKubernetesNuxtPostgresPub/SubPythonRSlackSQLTailwindTerraformVuejsWebpackZoom
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Remote
Boston, MA
179K-179K Annually
Senior level
179K-179K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology
As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.
Top Skills: Ai ToolingGoNode.jsPerlRag Pipelines
Reposted 4 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Boston, MA
150K-220K Annually
Mid level
150K-220K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Conversational AI
Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.
Top Skills: CC++GitPythonRustUnix
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In-Office
Boston, MA
107K-216K Annually
Senior level
107K-216K Annually
Senior level
Fintech
The Principal Python Backend Engineer will design and build high-performance backend systems for AI/ML services, focus on clean code, maintainability, and automation, while leading teams through a collaborative and innovative approach.
Top Skills: AWSCi/CdDockerKubernetesPython
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Remote
Boston, MA
220K-235K Annually
Senior level
220K-235K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Insurance • Software
Lead architecture and implementation of conversational AI systems, build scalable backend services and REST APIs, drive high-impact projects, integrate external partners and carriers, collaborate with Data Science on ML/LLM solutions, and ensure platform performance and scalability.
Top Skills: BigQueryDatarobotGCPLlmsLookerMl ModelsNode.jsRestful ApisTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Boston, MA
225K-265K Annually
Senior level
225K-265K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Software • Analytics
Staff Backend Engineer responsible for leading complex engineering projects, designing scalable systems, mentoring junior engineers, and enhancing platform performance at Socure.
Top Skills: Distributed SystemsSoftware Engineering
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Remote or Hybrid
Boston, MA
Senior level
Senior level
Information Technology • Marketing Tech • Software • App development
Design and build robust backend services and secure APIs for finance and reader applications. Implement authentication, payments, subscriptions, and finance workflows. Design Postgres/Redis schemas, integrate with financial APIs (BSE Star MF, NSE) and DRM services, and ensure compliance-friendly data handling.
Top Skills: Bse Star MfDrmFastapiJava Spring BootNode.jsNsePostgresPythonRedis
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Remote
Boston, MA
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech • Insurance
Technical lead for public-facing gRPC APIs and SDKs powering provider search, ranking, and dynamic copay lookups. Own API design, versioning, ranking/steerage logic, and reliability at scale. Write and review code and designs, mentor engineers, drive technical direction, partner with product and partner engineering, and support production operations and scaling decisions.
Top Skills: AlloydbBigQueryBigtableCelGitGoGrpcIncident.IoLinearLlmsNotionPostgresProtobufPythonSentrySlackTerraformTerraform CloudTypescriptVector EmbeddingsZoom
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Remote
Boston, MA
Mid level
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Marketing Tech • Sales • Software
Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Ruby on Rails. Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and write well-tested production code. Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data Engineering, and QA teams.
Top Skills: AWSElasticsearchPostgresRabbitMQRubyRuby On RailsSQL
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