Top Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
140K-210K Annually
Mid level
140K-210K Annually
Mid level
Blockchain • Software • Cryptocurrency • Web3
The Backend Engineer will design and build public APIs, manage transaction lifecycles, and create a data backend for the Stellar ecosystem.
Top Skills: C++Rust
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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
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218K-257K Annually
Senior level
218K-257K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
The role involves owning the architecture and technical direction of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing high-reliability systems for global payment processing, and leading cross-functional collaborations to create efficient, compliant solutions. Responsibilities also include mentoring team members and enhancing operational excellence through AI-driven improvements.
Top Skills: Ai ToolsApi DesignBlockchain TechnologyDistributed SystemsFinancial InfrastructurePayment Gateways
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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
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186K-219K Annually
Senior level
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement across fund flows, contribute to core platform development, mentor junior engineers, and operate correctness models in production.
Top Skills: DockerDynamoDBFlinkGoKafkaMongoDBPostgresRubySpark
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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
7 Days AgoSaved
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
120K-160K Annually
Entry level
120K-160K Annually
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software
The role involves building and improving backend guardrails, logging, and observability tools, ensuring robustness in error handling and monitoring for high-volume traffic.
Top Skills: DatadogFastapiFlaskOpentelemetryPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisSplunk
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In-Office or Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Lead the architecture and development of financial solutions at Airwallex's GTPN, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product offerings, while ensuring high-quality engineering practices and customer satisfaction.
Top Skills: Software DevelopmentSystem Architecture
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
148K-200K Annually
Junior
148K-200K Annually
Junior
Cloud • Healthtech • Social Impact • Software • Biotech
The role focuses on improving performance and observability within Benchling's software stack, enhancing customer experience through effective tooling and cross-team collaboration. The candidate will design and implement improvements autonomously, while owning projects that address performance challenges.
Top Skills: Observability Tools
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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
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software • Automation
Design and build scalable platforms for high-frequency data ingestion, develop database solutions, and pioneer data architecture while collaborating on engineering standards.
Top Skills: Apache FlinkArgocdAWSBeamDockerDruidGoGrafanaGrpcKafka StreamsKubernetesLinuxPinotPostgresPrometheusProtobufPythonReactRustTerraformTimescaledbTypescript
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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
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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Reposted 7 Days AgoSaved
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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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
150K-220K Annually
Mid level
150K-220K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Conversational AI
Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.
Top Skills: CC++GitPythonRustUnix
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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
150K-220K Annually
Mid level
150K-220K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Conversational AI
Lead the design and implementation of backend services for data cataloging and ML training systems, focusing on performance and scalability.
Top Skills: CC++PythonRustUnix
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Remote or Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
Software • Biotech
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll develop reliable and performant solutions for customer problems, working with products and designs using Django, Python, and managing backend complexity.
Top Skills: DjangoPostgresPythonRedis
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In-Office or Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
119K-160K Annually
Senior level
119K-160K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Digital Media • Marketing Tech • Software • Automation
The Sr Software Engineer will enhance platform performance, develop cloud-native systems, improve CI/CD processes, and oversee deliverables while collaborating with feature teams.
Top Skills: AirbrakeAWSDatadogDockerEc2JavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesPostgresPythonRabbitMQRuby on RailsRdsReactRedisRubySidekiqTerraform
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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
146K-164K Annually
Senior level
146K-164K Annually
Senior level
Insurance
The Senior Backend Engineer will design, build, and maintain backend services and technologies for Openly's insurance platform, focusing on API development and system integration while providing mentorship and collaborating on architecture decisions.
Top Skills: BigQueryCircleCICloud FunctionsComposer/AirflowDatadogDockerGCPGoKubernetesPostgresPythonSQLTerraform
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
135K-250K Annually
Senior level
135K-250K Annually
Senior level
Blockchain • Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Software • Cryptocurrency • Web3
The Software Engineer will design and maintain backend infrastructure for high-throughput distributed systems, debug production issues, and collaborate with stakeholders.
Top Skills: AWSC++EksGoJavaKubernetes
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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
As a Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase, you will build scalable backend services using Golang, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with teams to enhance financial operations.
Top Skills: DockerDynamoDBGoMongoDBPostgresRuby on RailsRuby
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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll oversee the Secrets Manager's architecture and development, ensuring secure handling of credentials and collaborating on backend solutions.
Top Skills: GoGraphQLHashicorp VaultKubernetesRuby On Rails
Reposted 9 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
150K-180K Annually
Mid level
150K-180K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology
As a Backend Engineer, you'll design REST APIs, model data, debug customer issues, optimize performance, and operate cloud services.
Top Skills: AWSCloudwatchDjangoDockerFastapiFlaskKubernetesMySQLNeo4JOpentelemetryPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisRest Apis
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Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
200K-400K Annually
Mid level
200K-400K Annually
Mid level
Edtech • Healthtech • Information Technology • Hospitality
As a Back-End Engineer at Clipboard Health, you'll develop scalable back-end services, collaborate on cross-functional teams, and ensure data integrity for a healthcare marketplace.
Top Skills: AWSEcsMongoDBNestjsNode.jsPostgresReactRedisTerrraformTypescript
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Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Mid level
Mid level
Payments • Software
Seeking backend engineers to build and maintain APIs for payment processing, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring peers.
Top Skills: APIsAWSDockerGraphQLGrpcKubernetes
Reposted 15 Days AgoSaved
Remote or Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Design and operate distributed, event-driven backend systems in Python for high-volume financial data. Build typed APIs, own end-to-end data and ledger architecture, implement resilient infrastructure primitives, and partner with ML and product teams to productionize AI-native financial workflows and platform foundations.
Top Skills: BigQueryCloud RunCloud SqlFastapiGoogle Cloud PlatformKmsNoSQLPub/SubPydanticPythonSQL
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