Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

The role involves designing and expanding backend systems, mentoring engineers, and executing technical strategies to modernize architecture and improve system performance.

As a backend engineer, you will enhance data collection systems to ensure reliability and scalability, working closely with engineering and mission teams.

Design, build, and operate backend Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets across multiple chains. Own end-to-end delivery from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout. Drive asset migration pipeline improvements, run on-call operations, build observability and runbooks, and mentor junior engineers.

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.

Design and deliver scalable backend services and high-performance APIs for a SaaS platform. Collaborate cross-functionally to scope and ship features, maintain clean architecture and tests, optimize application and database performance, evaluate backend technologies, and troubleshoot live systems to maximize uptime.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will develop secure and performant APIs, collaborate across teams, and drive technical development through mentorship and reviews.

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.

Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services. Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies; implement resilient APIs and event-driven services; optimize performance and cost; enforce failure-handling patterns; build observability; drive incident response; mentor engineers; partner with SRE and platform teams; and maintain comprehensive technical documentation and long-term platform strategy.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services (routing, traffic management, caching, async jobs, durable event processing). Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives, mentor engineers, author technical designs, and ensure predictable latency, availability, and low operational toil for internal consumers.

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, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services. Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies. Build resilient APIs and event-driven services, optimize for latency and throughput, and implement robust failure-handling patterns. Operate data stores at scale, add observability, lead incident response, conduct architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and produce comprehensive technical documentation and runbooks.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput backend platform capabilities (routing, traffic management, caching, async jobs, durable event processing). Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives, design distributed systems with predictable latency and failure behavior, mentor engineers, manage stakeholders, and author technical designs to improve internal developer experience and operational reliability.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems and scalable web APIs for an EM simulation platform. Integrate hybrid cloud and on-prem HPC, optimize HPC clusters, improve data management, implement containerized orchestration, and collaborate with EM and infrastructure teams to enhance schedulers, pipelines, and developer tooling.

The Full-Stack Engineer will enhance backend functionality, collaborate with teams, and maintain platform performance and security, requiring expertise in Python.

Design, implement, and own backend features from inception to production. Collaborate with product, marketing, and front-end teams to iterate quickly. Write clean, testable server-side code (Kotlin/Java or similar), work with relational databases and SQL, and operate in cloud-based environments with CI/CD deployment.

Develop backend components for signal acquisition and processing software for wearable physiological sensors. Design and implement APIs, data management strategies, drivers for custom PC peripherals, and integrate/test software components to translate research concepts into products.

Design, test, and build backend software to deliver geospatial insights. Integrate and optimize data scientists' code for production, collaborate cross-functionally, and support deployment of climate-tech geospatial solutions.

The Senior Back End Software Developer will design and develop cloud notebook applications, focusing on back-end systems while collaborating on features and implementing secure interfaces and services.

Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend APIs that bring ML audio models to market. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, improve system reliability and performance, mentor peers, and establish architectural foundations for growth.

The Staff Software Development Engineer will design and develop web applications, lead automation testing strategies, and collaborate on user experiences, utilizing strong front-end skills and full-stack exposure.

Build end-to-end product features with a backend focus: schema and API design, UI work in React/TypeScript, GCP/Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD, DB performance tuning, production ownership, and product decision-making using AI coding tools.

Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. Integrate with third-party billing/commerce systems, maintain serverless/event-driven architectures on AWS, ensure security and performance, implement automated tests and CI/CD, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions.

Develop, maintain, and optimize mission-critical backend APIs and scalable cloud services for web and mobile clients. Implement secure, high-performance systems, automated tests, observability, and technical documentation. Mentor peers, follow best practices, and support a proof-of-concept launch and fundraising activities as a volunteer contributor.

The Senior Back-End Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend systems while taking ownership of the software development lifecycle.

Architect and build backend systems for a real-time Command and Control platform directing large swarms of heterogeneous aircraft. Develop distributed infrastructure for mission control despite intermittent communications, ingest and process high-throughput telemetry and sensor data, and manage scheduling and data links. Own backend features from design through deployment while supporting reliability, scalability, CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps practices.