Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Build and operate core platform systems for users, workspaces, permissions, APIs, authentication, and resource management. Deliver full-stack features with a backend focus, including admin and settings interfaces. Scope work within large existing systems, plan migrations, manage safe rollouts, debug production issues, and collaborate across product and engineering teams. Candidates need strong Python and backend development expertise, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.

Build and operate distributed cloud backend services powering AI connections, collaboration, authentication, billing, telemetry, and developer workflows. Responsibilities include designing APIs and data models, writing Rust services, managing cloud infrastructure, leading projects, resolving production issues, participating in on-call, and guiding technical decisions across the team.

Build and operate highly scalable Go backend services and data infrastructure for the AT Protocol ecosystem. Scale systems to support hundreds of millions of users, hundreds of millions of events, petabytes of NVMe storage, thousands of CPU cores, and tens of terabytes of RAM. Responsibilities include developing mission-critical services, managing production operations, and working with databases, distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and storage technologies.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of backend services supporting multi-tenant MSSP partner workflows. Responsibilities include tenant isolation, account hierarchies, delegated administration, API design, reliability, observability, production issue ownership, and mentoring engineers. The role partners across Product and Engineering to deliver secure, reliable cloud-hosted platform capabilities for client and sub-client management.

Designs, develops, and supports scalable Java microservices using Spring Boot and Google Cloud. Responsibilities include SQL and data pipeline development, CI/CD automation with Jenkins, infrastructure as code using Terraform, unit testing, code reviews, production incident resolution, root-cause analysis, agile execution, and mentoring engineering teams.

Build and operate backend services and asynchronous workflows that provision customer accounts, assets, and product entitlements. Own projects from design through production support, ensuring reliable retries, idempotency, observability, testing, and recovery from failures. Collaborate with licensing, Product, administration, partner, and customer-facing teams to improve onboarding and activation paths. Investigate operational issues, address root causes, document systems, and contribute to code reviews and technical problem solving.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend services and APIs supporting account administration, authorization, tenant boundaries, account hierarchies, settings, roles, and audit logs. Lead architecture and implementation of complex changes, improve API quality, testing, security, observability, rollout practices, and production readiness. Partner across Product and Engineering, mentor engineers, influence technical direction, document tradeoffs, and diagnose complex production issues.

Build and maintain data pipelines, PostgreSQL systems, Kubernetes infrastructure, deployment tooling, and SaaS integrations. The role includes infrastructure reliability, observability, incident response, security collaboration, Salesforce data flows, CI/CD, testing, debugging, and agile delivery. The engineer will connect data infrastructure with Techstars OS product teams and improve reliable, secure systems across the organization.

Leads the infrastructure and backend engineering function supporting mobile games, analytics systems, internal products, APIs, and web services. Owns AWS architecture, reliability, security, monitoring, automation, CI/CD, cost optimization, Snowflake data infrastructure, high-volume event pipelines, backend services, game servers, and technical roadmaps. Provides hands-on architecture, implementation, code review, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and end-to-end project ownership.

Design and own backend infrastructure for a privacy-first AI memory platform. Responsibilities include multi-tier memory storage, secure multi-tenant isolation, real-time APIs, caching, LLM integrations, retrieval systems, synchronization, monitoring, deployment pipelines, and production reliability. The role requires close collaboration with ML engineering and product teams while owning architecture, infrastructure, testing, security, and operational troubleshooting.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Develop and scale backend streaming and data infrastructure using Kafka, Flink, AWS, Kubernetes, and related technologies. Break down projects, deliver tested software, collaborate with product and engineering teams, monitor system availability, participate in on-call support, debug code, conduct code reviews, and contribute to team development.

Leads architecture, development, and operation of Python-based AWS backend and IoT services. Designs Lambda microservices, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, databases, device communication, and infrastructure as code. Provides hands-on technical leadership through coding, design and code reviews, mentoring, cross-functional planning, security practices, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and roadmap development.

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.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Scala/Java server-side applications and RESTful APIs. Work on distributed systems, ensure data integrity and security, write unit tests, optimize performance, participate in design reviews, and mentor junior engineers while supporting CMS mission requirements.

Principal frontend-focused software engineer responsible for leading frontend architecture, standards, tooling, accessibility, performance, testing, and deployment practices. The role delivers scalable customer-facing web applications, component libraries, and design systems using React or Angular. It includes cross-functional product collaboration, technical decision-making, mentoring, modernization initiatives, and occasional full-stack work. The position is remote, requires U.S. citizenship, Public Trust 6C eligibility, and approximately 0–10% business travel.

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.

Build and maintain backend services, REST APIs, cloud workspace provisioning systems, and resource orchestration infrastructure. Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security while developing integrations, SDKs, and developer tools. Contribute to architecture and ship features from concept to production. The role requires strong TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js skills, backend and database knowledge, and familiarity with Docker, Linux, and cloud infrastructure.

Develop and maintain Ruby on Rails backend systems supporting solar development, value evaluation, and loan servicing. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, solving complex domain problems, collaborating with Product and company experts, shaping architecture and technical direction, and improving engineering processes as the company scales.

Build and ship healthcare software across the frontend, APIs, and databases. Own features end to end, write tested and maintainable code, prototype with patients and care teams, and use AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code in daily development. Design scalable systems, improve performance, accessibility, and reliability, and contribute to trustworthy automation in a fast-paced startup environment.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Design and scale production-grade asynchronous backend systems in Python, including REST/WebSocket APIs, multi-agent LLM workflows, provider-agnostic integrations, and RAG pipelines. Build schemas and migrations, optimize relational databases, instrument services, and own CI/CD from testing through deployment. Establish AI governance around code review, provenance, licensing, security, compliance, and customer data. Drive architecture and product ideas from conception through production.

Build and operate the backend platform for autonomous cybersecurity agents, including durable workflow execution, tool and connector frameworks, safe-change pipelines, tenant isolation, ETL, GraphQL services, observability, audit trails, and distributed systems. Partner with AI researchers and security engineers to productionize agent capabilities across customer environments while enforcing authorization, rollback, quotas, and data protection.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend services for payments, cards, spend management, and compliance. Develop production-quality services and APIs, optimize databases, integrate AI and third-party APIs, and implement secure event-driven architectures. Own features from design through deployment and monitoring, contribute to reliability and CI/CD improvements, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with globally distributed engineering, product, compliance, and data teams.

Design and develop scalable backend systems using Kotlin, Micronaut, and Spring. Build RESTful APIs, optimize PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch databases, implement RabbitMQ-based asynchronous processing, integrate AI tools, and create automated tests. Deploy and monitor services on GCP using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Collaborate cross-functionally, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot performance issues, and deliver reliable backend products.