Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Build and maintain agentic workflow components and the platform requirements knowledge base to ensure features ship across GitLabs deployment targets. Implement integration surfaces (issues, MRs, design docs, CI/CD), collaborate with platform teams to translate expertise into structured requirements, and write tests, documentation, and evaluations for agentic-workflow behavior and assessment accuracy.

You will tackle AI challenges, develop scalable software and collaborate with teams to enhance healthcare navigation using AI solutions.

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.

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.

Lead technology projects and a team to design and deliver cloud-based, full-stack and back-end microservices solutions. Collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, adopt new technologies, and ensure scalable experiences using containers, orchestration, databases, and cloud services.

Lead a portfolio of technology projects and a team of developers to design and deliver cloud-based, full-stack microservices. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, evaluate and write code, and use languages and tools (JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL), container orchestration, and AWS/GCP/Azure to build scalable customer-facing solutions.

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.

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.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will develop APIs, collaborate with various teams, and manage project priorities while ensuring communication is efficient and inclusive.

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.

Lead architecture, development, and operation of scalable, secure backend systems and APIs for real-time, high-traffic applications. Own full lifecycle from design through production, enforce engineering best practices, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

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.

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.

Build backend services and APIs that integrate commercial CAD platforms (Siemens NX, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Creo, Inventor) with cloud-native AI services. Translate CAD models into machine-readable data, automate engineering workflows in Python, manage assemblies, parts, configurations, and partner with research teams on Engineering AI.

Lead design and delivery of a reliability platform for production systems. Own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, collaborate with PM/design/analytics, monitor and operate services (on-call), set quality and code standards, and mentor teammates. Integrate AI/LLM tooling to improve automation, debugging, and service health.

Lead delivery for the Batch Infrastructure team: design, build, and operate reliable, scalable compute platforms for scheduled and on-demand batch workloads. Collaborate with product/design/analytics, define technical plans, ensure availability (monitoring/on-call), set code and design standards, and mentor engineers to improve delivery and quality.

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, event-driven data pipelines and customer integrations (especially EHRs). Evolve core data models and APIs, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, define best practices, and drive end-to-end testing and AWS-based solutions.

Build, operate, and extend data platform and application-layer services enabling secure, self-service data applications at scale. Implement provisioning, CI/CD, access control, integrations, observability, automation, and incident response while contributing to semantic layer and AI-ready tooling roadmaps.

Build and maintain scalable integration and end-to-end test automation frameworks, optimize CI pipelines and test execution, improve test stability and reporting, support engineering teams with triage and best practices, write technical specs/ADRs, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate cross-functionally to evolve the company test strategy.

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead and support a team in developing reliable and scalable backend systems, collaborating on product development, and improving infrastructure for secure communication between services.

Design and build tooling, workflows, and guidance to make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across cloud-native, self-managed, and ephemeral environments. Shape deployment architecture, topology, scaling principles, and platform contracts while collaborating with application, infrastructure, and delivery teams.

Design and maintain backend services for WHOOP's healthcare platform, integrating advanced data insights and collaborating on feature development with cross-functional teams.

The Backend Engineer will develop intricate backend systems, build performant APIs, and contribute to technology innovation at Entefy.

Design and build scalable, secure cloud-native backend systems in AWS. Implement event-driven architectures, async concurrent processing, data pipelines, serverless services, and REST APIs (Flask/FastAPI). Ensure performance, caching, testing, debugging, and cloud security (IAM, encryption, authentication).