Top Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
150K-299K Annually
Senior level
150K-299K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Design and operate scalable, event-driven backend systems in Python for AI-native financial products. Build typed APIs (FastAPI + Pydantic), own data and ledger architectures, develop reliability primitives, partner with ML teams to productionize models, and ship platform foundations for audited, high-throughput financial workflows.
Top Skills: AIBigQueryCloud RunCloud SqlEvent-Driven ArchitectureFastapiGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle KmsMachine LearningMicroservicesNoSQLObservabilityPub/SubPydanticPythonQueuesSQL
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
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Senior level
Senior level
AdTech
Lead backend engineering for a consumer mobile product: design, build and own Rust-based microservices, define APIs and data models, coordinate with mobile teams, drive architecture and execution, and raise engineering standards across backend and mobile codebases.
Top Skills: AndroidAWSAzureGCPGraphQLGrpciOSProtocol BuffersReact NativeRelational DatabasesRustSQL
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
150K-200K Annually
Senior level
150K-200K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce • Information Technology • Sharing Economy • Software
The Staff Back-End Engineer will lead technical initiatives, improve financial systems' reliability, and mentor engineers in backend engineering using Ruby on Rails.
Top Skills: KafkaPostgresRspecRuby On RailsSnowflakeSQL
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Financial Services • Generative AI
As a Backend Engineer, you will develop scalable systems, optimize performance, mentor junior engineers, and lead critical projects at Hebbia's Agent Collaboration platform.
Top Skills: AWSElasticsearchGoJavaKafkaPostgresPythonRedis
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Financial Services • Generative AI
As a Backend Engineer, you'll build and maintain APIs and backend systems, optimize performance, mentor junior engineers, and drive user engagement for Hebbia's AI platform.
Top Skills: AWSElasticsearchGoJavaKafkaPostgresPythonRedis
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
160K-300K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Financial Services • Generative AI
The Backend Engineer will design and implement efficient backend systems and APIs, optimize performance for large-scale data, and mentor junior engineers.
Top Skills: AWSElasticsearchGoJavaKafkaPostgresPythonRedis
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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
82K-105K Annually
Junior
82K-105K Annually
Junior
Software
The Marketing Backend Developer will build and maintain backend services and APIs for marketing operations, ensuring reliable data flow and system integrations, with a focus on performance and scalability.
Top Skills: AWSCloudFormationCSSDjangoFlaskHTMLJavaScriptMarketoNext.JsNode.jsPythonReactRubySalesforceSamSvelteTerraformVue
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Remote or Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
170K-221K Annually
Senior level
170K-221K Annually
Senior level
Food • Software
Senior Backend Engineer responsible for building, deploying, and monitoring backend applications. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to design/version APIs, build event-driven/asynchronous systems, improve performance and reliability, and drive CI/CD and observability best practices. Ship high-quality, well-tested features and support platform scalability and maintainability.
Top Skills: Apis (Public/Partner-Facing)AWSBackground Job ProcessingCi/CdCloud InfrastructureContainerized DeploymentsDocker (Containerization)GCPMessage QueuesObservabilityPython
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In-Office or Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
90K-150K Annually
Mid level
90K-150K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software
As a Back-End Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain core infrastructure while ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability in a fintech environment.
Top Skills: AWSDevOpsEc2ElbMongoDBNode.jsS3
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In-Office or Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Insurance • Mobile • Financial Services
You will tackle AI challenges, develop scalable software and collaborate with teams to enhance healthcare navigation using AI solutions.
Top Skills: AIAPIsGpt-4Machine LearningSoftware Development
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
168K-210K Annually
Senior level
168K-210K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Mobile • Software
The Senior Backend Engineer will enhance the backend platform by developing scalable services and APIs, drive the software lifecycle, mentor others, and utilize AI tools to improve workflows.
Top Skills: DockerGraphQLKubernetesNode.jsNoSQLRestSQLTypescript
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
195K-350K Annually
Mid level
195K-350K Annually
Mid level
Legal Tech • Software • Generative AI
The Product Engineer will develop and maintain core software, drive product direction, integrate AI solutions, and work with customer feedback. They will own back-end systems and collaborate with design and engineering teams.
Top Skills: AIBack-End SystemsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack Development
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
150K-245K Annually
Senior level
150K-245K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Design and operate scalable, event-driven backend systems in Python to power agentic AI workflows and real-time financial infrastructure. Own APIs, data architecture, reliability primitives, and platform foundations while partnering with ML and product teams to productionize AI-native financial systems.
Top Skills: BigQueryCloud SqlFastapiGCPGoogle Cloud Pub/SubGoogle Cloud RunGoogle KmsNoSQLPydanticPythonSQL
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Remote or Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
180K-230K Annually
Senior level
180K-230K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Generative AI
As a Sr. Software Engineer, Backend, you will develop AI-powered solutions for clinical documentation and medical coding, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance SaaS products and deliver actionable insights for healthcare organizations.
Top Skills: AWSDockerFastapiGithub ActionsKubernetesPostgresPythonSqlalchemy
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
175K-275K Annually
Senior level
175K-275K Annually
Senior level
Consumer Web • Digital Media • Enterprise Web • Marketing Tech • News + Entertainment • Software • Generative AI
Design, build, and deploy backend services for creative tools. Integrate with AWS, ensuring scalable and secure Python code for event processing and APIs.
Top Skills: Ci/CdDynamoDBEksFastapiKubernetesPostgresPydanticPythonRedisS3
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
201K-240K Annually
Junior
201K-240K Annually
Junior
Artificial Intelligence • Legal Tech • Software • Generative AI
As an AI Backend Engineer, you'll design and develop backend systems for AI agents, ensuring reliability, security, and performance in production environments. Collaborate across teams to implement AI workflows and scalable systems while maintaining a focus on delivering features rapidly and effectively.
Top Skills: AIAi OrchestrationAPIsBackendData ModelsDistributed SystemsLlmsSecurity
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
220K-280K Annually
Senior level
220K-280K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Legal Tech • Software • Generative AI
The Senior AI Backend Engineer will design and build backend services to power multimodal AI agents, ensuring performance, security, and reliability. Responsibilities include developing AI orchestration pipelines, implementing security measures, and mentoring less experienced engineers while collaborating across teams to enhance AI features for enterprise customers.
Top Skills: Ai OrchestrationAPIsApplied AiBackend ServicesData ModelsDistributed SystemsLarge Language Models
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Entry level
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Design • Generative AI
As a Backend Engineer, you will design and maintain APIs and databases, improve system performance, and implement new features for web and mobile applications.
Top Skills: AWSJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPostgresRedisSvelteSveltekitTypescriptWebsockets
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
185K-225K Annually
Senior level
185K-225K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
The Experienced Backend Engineer will architect solutions, mentor engineers, design and enhance critical systems, and build reliable services for Stytch's product roadmap.
Top Skills: AWSGoGrpcKubernetesNode.jsProtobufsReactTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
176K-220K Annually
Senior level
176K-220K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Big Data Analytics
Build enterprise-grade authentication, authorization, and identity features across the full stack. Design and implement RBAC, provisioning (SCIM), SSO/OAuth integrations, secure public APIs, and admin workflows for auditing and compliance. Own end-to-end product changes, collaborate on architecture, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, reliable systems for enterprise customers.
Top Skills: Audit LogsMfaOauthPublic ApisRbacScimSso
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In-Office or Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Mid level
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
As a Backend Engineer, you will architect, build, and deploy systems for our data science platform, collaborating with a cross-functional team to enhance machine learning practices.
Top Skills: FlinkGoJavaPythonScalaSpark
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Mid level
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Other • Payments • Software • Generative AI
As a Backend Engineer, you'll design scalable infrastructure, mentor teammates, and collaborate with teams to deploy effective solutions.
Top Skills: Aws CdkAws LambdaAws Rds AuroraAws Step FunctionsPythonTypescript
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
133K-235K Annually
Junior
133K-235K Annually
Junior
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
As a Backend Engineer, you'll design, implement, and operate critical scalable services, collaborate across teams, and uphold best practices for software quality and system operations.
Top Skills: AWSC++GCPJavaKubernetesMemcacheNoSQLPythonRedis
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
120K-200K Annually
Mid level
120K-200K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Information Technology
As a Backend Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain backend services, collaborate with teams across the stack, and contribute to product feature development.
Top Skills: AWSDockerFastapiKubernetesPostgresPython
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In-Office
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
205K-235K Annually
Senior level
205K-235K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Productivity • Software
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll lead the development of backend features in a Django monolith, optimize database performance, and mentor other engineers.
Top Skills: AmazonmqAWSCeleryDjangoPostgresPythonRedisTerraform
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