Top Senior Backend Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Design, build, and improve scalable backend systems that collect hard-to-access OSINT; build pipelines and ETL for messy data; collaborate with product and mission teams; mentor engineers and ensure reliable data delivery for DoD workflows.

The Senior Backend Engineer will enhance data integration infrastructure, manage internal systems, and collaborate with teams to execute engineering tasks for growth initiatives.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own backend systems, mentor team members, and collaborate with product and design to build user-focused solutions.

Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs for an insurance platform. Integrate external services and data providers, improve system stability, performance, and scalability, participate in architecture discussions, mentor teammates, and support internal tooling and deployment practices.

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 role involves designing and implementing backend systems, driving initiatives, improving performance and scalability, and mentoring engineers while ensuring collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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.

Design and implement backend systems for business operations at WHOOP, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability. Collaborate with stakeholders and mentor engineers.

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.

The Senior Backend Engineer will develop the Payroll product, overseeing the entire development cycle from design to deployment, in a microservices architecture.

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.

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.

The Senior Backend Engineer II will design, build, and maintain backend services for financial workflows, collaborating with product and engineering teams to enhance system reliability and performance.

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.

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.

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

Own and ship backend services in production, make long-term architecture decisions, use generative AI daily to improve development, collaborate with founders and cross-functional teams, and maintain operational reliability for enterprise-scale systems.

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.

The role involves designing and developing high-performance web apps, improving user interfaces, maintaining component libraries, and ensuring code quality through comprehensive testing and collaboration with other teams.

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.

Lead design, build, and operate scalable backend services for Maps, Location, and Directory search. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, own product components, apply CI/CD and SDLC best practices, optimize data and query performance, and iterate rapidly based on user feedback and data.

Design, build, and support features for a monetization platform while ensuring reliability and performance as a senior backend engineer.

The Backend Engineer will design and maintain scalable backend services, develop APIs, optimize data storage, and ensure system performance and reliability, collaborating with various teams.

Design, build, and maintain Chaos Engineering tooling and distributed backend systems. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, ensure reliability through automated testing and CI/CD, integrate with cloud and external systems, and deliver production-ready features that improve system availability and customer experience.

Lead backend development for MapMyFitness, collaborate with product/marketing/design, build and maintain APIs for mobile clients, respond to bugs, monitor and resolve incidents, ensure high availability, ship maintainable/testable code, and drive major architectural changes for a platform used by millions.