Top Senior Backend Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Build and lead development of high-availability backend services for Affirm’s card loan platform. Design scalable APIs, data models, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting real-time loan attribution, approvals, origination, and refunds. Drive technical strategy, troubleshoot complex performance issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring long-term system robustness and scalability.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Build and operate production-grade Python backend services, APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and agentic workflows for an AI observability platform. Own ambiguous projects from prototyping through architecture, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation. Collaborate with product, machine learning, and infrastructure teams, while contributing React front ends when needed. The role requires strong backend depth, distributed-systems expertise, cloud experience, and end-to-end product ownership.

Design, deploy, and optimize Philo’s distributed video streaming infrastructure, including ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery, RESTful services, analytics pipelines, DRM, and ad insertion. Improve platform reliability, performance, latency, security, video quality, and cost efficiency. Collaborate with content partners and internal video, advertising, client, and data teams while supporting streaming quality across new platforms. The role also involves architectural ownership, cloud operations, and mentoring.

Design, build, optimize, and maintain Bevi’s Java and Kotlin backend platform for connected beverage machines. Develop APIs and telemetry services, manage cloud deployments, monitor system health, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve scalability and reliability. Collaborate with product and hardware teams, guide architecture, review code, promote testing practices, mentor engineers, manage third-party integrations, and participate in Agile/Scrum development.

Build scalable backend services and infrastructure for mobile and web products. Design secure RESTful APIs, architect high-performance systems, apply engineering best practices, estimate and track Agile tasks, mentor teammates, collaborate with clients and engineers, and take ownership of technical solutions.

Build reusable backend platforms and developer-facing tooling for performance testing, analysis, reporting, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Enable service teams to independently incorporate performance testing into development and CI workflows through self-service capabilities, documentation, templates, diagnostics, and guidance. Partner with engineering teams, influence adoption, generalize solutions, and provide expertise on complex performance challenges.

Design and implement backend services, modernize legacy systems into microservices, ensure strong testing and production observability, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams. The role requires independent project ownership, strong system design, AI-assisted development using tools such as Claude or Cursor, effective communication with nontechnical stakeholders, and adaptability in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems and public-facing APIs. Collaborate with Product and Data Science teams, lead initiatives improving efficiency and system performance, and support customer satisfaction. Work may involve distributed systems, pricing engines, identity management, authentication, authorization, API versioning, deprecation, and rate limiting.

Design, build, and scale backend services and integrations for payment, billing, identity, and partner systems. Own API scoping, design, implementation, deployment, and production operations with minimal oversight. Build fault-tolerant systems, data pipelines, and scalable architectures while collaborating with product, design, engineering, and external partners. Contribute to reliability monitoring, observability, automation, technical standards, and mentoring in a distributed team.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

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 and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time sports betting experiences for millions of customers. Responsibilities include full software lifecycle ownership, production issue resolution, performance and reliability improvements, automated testing, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers. The role requires backend development expertise in C# or Java, cloud-based distributed systems, and high-volume production environments.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Lead backend architecture and engineering initiatives for a programmatic advertising platform. Design and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive ad-serving and auction systems; integrate SSPs, DSPs, exchanges, and other partners; improve reliability and performance; and guide technical strategy. The role also involves mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving major projects from architecture through production, and collaborating with Product and other stakeholders.

Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable backend systems powering WHOOP’s member experiences. Drive technical planning for complex initiatives, establish engineering standards, deliver platform capabilities, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, data science, and performance science teams while balancing technical quality, business priorities, observability, and long-term maintainability.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, data pipelines, automation, and workflows for internal business systems. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions. Ensure system reliability, performance, security, and scalability while contributing to technical strategy, code reviews, engineering best practices, mentorship, and process improvement.

Designs, builds, and maintains secure, scalable FHIR-based backend services and REST APIs for CMS initiatives. Implements DEQM Summary MeasureReport profiles, resource validation, conformance checks, SMART security patterns, and automated tests. Partners on architecture decisions, troubleshoots interoperability issues, supports CI/CD conformance testing, and contributes to technical documentation, code reviews, Connectathons, and implementation testing.

Design, develop, launch, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs used by merchant and partner integrations. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders, balance speed with system quality, debug code, conduct code reviews, and write tested, extensible software. The role requires experience with distributed systems, Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, along with strong communication and ownership of professional growth.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native backend applications using Node.js, React, and AWS services. Build secure, high-performing solutions supporting federal missions, troubleshoot complex issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to agile development. Responsibilities include working with serverless services, databases, CI/CD tools, and modern JavaScript technologies while delivering high-quality software.

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.

Own backend systems and infrastructure end-to-end, designing, deploying, and scaling performant APIs and services on AWS using Node.js and TypeScript. Deliver reliable production code quickly, establish engineering best practices, make architectural tradeoffs, and collaborate with product engineers and stakeholders. The role emphasizes system ownership, scalability, performance, reliability, and effective use of AI-assisted development tools.

Design and develop the backend of the vCluster Platform using Go and deep Kubernetes expertise. Own features end to end, from technical design through release, while solving complex systems and multi-tenancy challenges. Contribute to open-source projects and Kubernetes community initiatives, build scalable isolation and resource-sharing solutions, and operate autonomously in a fast-growing startup environment.

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing scalable Java Spring microservices, implementing features, resolving defects, and improving backend architecture. The role involves event-driven systems, relational and NoSQL databases, testing, code quality, mentoring engineers, technical leadership, and collaboration with product teams. Engineers will also validate AI-assisted code, promote AI development practices, and work with cloud-native tools across AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and continuous delivery systems.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).