Top Senior Backend Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

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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
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Remote or Hybrid
Boston, MA
170K-220K Annually
Senior level
170K-220K Annually
Senior level
HR Tech • Information Technology • Professional Services • Sales • Software
The Senior Backend Engineer will develop the Payroll product, overseeing the entire development cycle from design to deployment, in a microservices architecture.
Top Skills: AWSJavaKotlinMySQLPostgresScala
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Remote
Boston, MA
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185K-200K Annually
Senior level
185K-200K Annually
Senior level
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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Remote
Boston, MA
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145K-190K Annually
Senior level
145K-190K Annually
Senior level
Cannabis • eCommerce • Enterprise Web • Logistics • Payments • Software • Database
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.
Top Skills: DockerJavaJvm FrameworksKubernetesRelational Databases
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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 role involves designing and implementing backend systems, driving initiatives, improving performance and scalability, and mentoring engineers while ensuring collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Top Skills: AWSJavaKafkaPostgres
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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
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
Easy Apply
150K-210K Annually
Senior level
150K-210K Annually
Senior level
Fitness • Hardware • Healthtech • Sports • Wearables
Design and implement backend systems for business operations at WHOOP, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability. Collaborate with stakeholders and mentor engineers.
Top Skills: AWSAzureGCPGoJavaPython
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Remote
Boston, MA
157K-230K Annually
Senior level
157K-230K Annually
Senior level
Insurance • Legal Tech • Social Impact
The Senior Backend Engineer will enhance data integration infrastructure, manage internal systems, and collaborate with teams to execute engineering tasks for growth initiatives.
Top Skills: GCPGoKubernetesSalesforceTerraform
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Remote
Boston, MA
157K-230K Annually
Senior level
157K-230K Annually
Senior level
Insurance • Legal Tech • Social Impact
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own backend systems, mentor team members, and collaborate with product and design to build user-focused solutions.
Top Skills: DockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform
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Remote
Boston, MA
Easy Apply
146K-164K Annually
Senior level
146K-164K Annually
Senior level
Insurance
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.
Top Skills: Aiven DebeziumArcgisBigQueryCircleCICloud FunctionsCloud RunComposer/AirflowDatadogDonutFivetranGcp GcsGitGoGCPJupyter NotebooksKafkaKubernetesNuxtPostgresPub/SubPythonRSlackSQLTailwindTerraformVuejsWebpackZoom
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Hybrid
Boston, MA
86K-159K Annually
Senior level
86K-159K Annually
Senior level
Automotive • Hardware • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems and APIs. Integrate cloud-native services, manage SQL/NoSQL databases, implement security best practices, optimize performance, and support production environments. Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams, participate in code reviews, and troubleshoot backend and cloud infrastructure issues.
Top Skills: AWSAzureCC++CassandraCi/CdCloudFormationDockerEc2GoGCPGraphQLGrpcJavaKubernetesLambdaMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLNode.jsPostgresPythonRedisRestS3
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In-Office or Remote
Boston, MA
152K-194K Annually
Senior level
152K-194K Annually
Senior level
Real Estate
Lead backend architecture and implementation for Java Spring microservices, validate and own AI-assisted code, mentor engineers, collaborate with product to deliver features, and drive technical excellence and scalable, test-covered systems.
Top Skills: ArgocdAWSClaude CodeCodexCursorDatadogDockerDynamoDBGitHibernateJavaJpaKafkaKubernetesOpensearchPostgresRedisSonarqubeSpring BootSQLTeamcity
Senior level
Financial Services
The Senior Backend Engineer will design and develop scalable software applications, focus on cloud migration, and lead technical efforts with development teams.
Top Skills: Apache KafkaAWSConfluent KafkaJ2EeJavaJenkinsMicroservicesOraclePostgresRestSoapSpringSpring Boot
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In-Office or Remote
Boston, MA
165K-215K Annually
Senior level
165K-215K Annually
Senior level
Automation • Manufacturing
The Senior Backend Engineer will design and implement core services and AI infrastructure, create REST APIs, and develop ingestion pipelines while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the AI platform for hardware product development.
Top Skills: Anthropic ClaudeCeleryDockerFastapiGCPLangchainLanggraphOpenaiPostgresPythonRedisSqlalchemyTerraform
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Hybrid
Boston, MA
Easy Apply
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
Easy Apply
232K-310K Annually
Senior level
232K-310K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
The Senior Staff Software Engineer will architect Affirm's lakehouse analytics platform, lead data governance efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to optimize data solutions using Snowflake and other big data tools.
Top Skills: Apache IcebergDbtPythonSnowflakeSparkSQLTerraform
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In-Office or Remote
Boston, MA
80K-150K Annually
Senior level
80K-150K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will develop and support computing features, design APIs, and ensure system reliability and compliance. You will work closely with teams to innovate on solutions and manage resources efficiently.
Top Skills: Ci/Cd PipelinesDaskGoHarness.IoHelmKubernetesNvidia InfrastructureOpentelemetryPrometheusPythonRayTerraformTerragrunt
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In-Office or Remote
Boston, MA
4K-5K Annually
Mid level
4K-5K Annually
Mid level
HR Tech
The role involves back-end development using .NET Core and SQL, contributing to Jibble 2.0 API integrations, and collaborating with product and design teams.
Top Skills: .Net CoreAWSC#ConfluenceEf Core 5FigmaJIRAOpenapiPostgresRabbitMQSlackSQLTypescriptVue
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Remote
Boston, MA
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech • Insurance
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll develop and maintain the Dynamic Copay Engine's services, design pricing logic, and manage data integrations, focusing on backend systems for health insurance functionality.
Top Skills: BigQueryDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPostgresRedis
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In-Office or Remote
Boston, MA
Entry level
Entry level
Gaming • Mobile • Travel
Develop frontend features for mobile/web: quest storefront, user and creator dashboards, admin tools, marketing/sales features, and third-party integrations. Work in one-week Scrum sprints, contribute to architecture, use git/GitLab and AI-assisted coding tools, and collaborate on product development.
Top Skills: AngularClaude CodeCursorGitGitlabJavaScriptLinuxMarkdownMySQLPostgresReactTypescriptVs Code CopilotVue
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Hybrid
Boston, MA
209K-262K Annually
Senior level
209K-262K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
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.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDockerGoGCPJavaKubernetesNode.jsNoSQLPythonRdbmsScalaSQL
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Remote
Boston, MA
Easy Apply
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Build low-latency, high-throughput microservices and event-driven systems, drive reliability via SLOs and observability, lead incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product and compliance-aligned roadmaps.
Top Skills: Distributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitecturesGenerative AiGoIncident ResponseJavaLow-Latency SystemsMicroservicesObservabilityPythonRubySlos
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Remote
Boston, MA
24K-46K Annually
Senior level
24K-46K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs for device management. Troubleshoot software and network issues with telecom customers, optimize MongoDB/MySQL databases, implement caching with Redis, and deploy apps using Docker and Kubernetes while working in Agile/Scrum with distributed teams.
Top Skills: ApacheConfluenceDockerEclipseElasticsearchGitIntellijJavaJdbcJdkJettyJIRAKubernetesMavenMongoDBMySQLRedisSpring Boot
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In-Office or Remote
Boston, MA
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
As a Senior Backend Developer at Awarri, you'll build and maintain backend systems for AI platforms, focusing on scalable architectures, data integration, and real-time communication.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDockerGCPWebrtcWebsocket
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