Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

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.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for speech inference and audio processing. Optimize networking, transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Measure and improve system performance, debug complex networking/scheduling/HPC issues, customize services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

Design and implement scalable backend services for payment and transaction workflows using Java. Own end-to-end features from data model and APIs to Angular frontends, improve reliability and performance, refactor legacy systems, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product and design. Leverage AI-assisted development tools responsibly and share best practices across the team.

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.

Lead and deliver quarterly goals for a backend team; guide engineers through ambiguous problems; collaborate with product, design, and analytics; identify and resolve project and technical issues; ensure operational availability and on-call readiness; set code and design quality standards; and mentor and develop team members.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Lead a team delivering cloud-based back-end financial systems, architect distributed microservices, collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, and build scalable data and reporting solutions using modern languages, containers, and cloud services.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Build and scale customer-facing full-stack platforms using React, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Node.js, and AWS. Develop APIs, microservices, distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployments. Participate in architecture and code reviews, testing, security, observability, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting. Collaborate with product and design teams, communicate technical decisions, mentor engineers, and independently deliver complex initiatives across distributed Agile teams.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

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.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Design, implement, and evolve complex backend features and architecture. Improve reliability, performance, and security at scale. Mentor engineers, participate in incident response, set backend standards, and integrate agentic AI into production workflows.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith for portfolio planning at scale. Optimize PostgreSQL performance, evolve APIs (GraphQL/REST), build capacity planning and work-item hierarchies, create proofs of concept, maintain automated tests, support safe rollouts with feature flags and observability, mentor contributors, and participate in on-call and production troubleshooting.

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.

Build and operate backend services for an AI-powered hardware development platform. Design REST APIs, ingestion pipelines, background task systems, and agentic AI workflows that convert unstructured inputs into engineering artifacts. Integrate LLM APIs with streaming, error handling, and cost optimization, deploy services on GCP using Terraform, and establish reliable coding, testing, and review practices. The role requires daily hands-on development and collaboration with AI researchers, product leadership, and engineering teams.

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.

Own the architecture and evolution of Osmo’s canonical data platform, including data models, schemas, migrations, replication, APIs, integrations, access control, validation, concurrency, and auditability. Lead consistency across distributed systems under retries and partial failures, establish data modeling standards, partner with scientific and technical experts, and improve team capability through durable engineering practices and mentorship.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services powering AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines. Design scalable core platform services, collaborate with ML, frontend, and product teams, implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, and mentor junior engineers to deliver reliable, AI-powered features.

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.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain IAM solutions, ensuring security and reliability while working with cloud computing standards.