Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

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In-Office
Seattle, WA
174K-299K Annually
Senior level
174K-299K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce
The Senior Staff Backend Engineer will enhance cloud infrastructure's reliability and efficiency, design scalable systems, and collaborate across teams to improve architecture and deployment automation.
Top Skills: AnsibleAWSAzureCi/CdCircleCICloud Devops ToolsCloud FormationDockerGCPGitIacJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform
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Remote
Seattle, WA
Easy Apply
218K-257K Annually
Senior level
218K-257K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.
Top Skills: Generative AiGoJava
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Remote or Hybrid
Seattle, WA
165K-235K Annually
Mid level
165K-235K Annually
Mid level
Big Data • Cloud • Productivity • Software • Database • Analytics • Automation
The Backend Software Engineer will develop data ingestion pipelines, implement observability tools, and provide technical support while improving team collaboration.
Top Skills: Python
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Remote
Seattle, WA
Easy Apply
142K-210K Annually
Junior
142K-210K Annually
Junior
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.
Top Skills: AirflowJavaScriptPythonReactSparkSQL
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Remote
Seattle, WA
Easy Apply
204K-290K Annually
Senior level
204K-290K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.
Top Skills: AWSKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonReactSpark
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Remote
Seattle, WA
Senior level
Senior level
Software
Lead the design and development of scalable Python backend services and APIs on AWS, mentor engineers, and manage PostgreSQL databases in a healthcare technology environment.
Top Skills: Api GatewayAWSBitbucketDockerGitJIRAKubernetesLambdaOauth 2PostgresPythonRest ApiSlackTeams
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Remote
Seattle, WA
Expert/Leader
Expert/Leader
Big Data • Food • Mobile • Payments
Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable backend services and event-driven systems for Fetch's ads, rewards, and offer platforms. Own APIs, eligibility and attribution logic, reward fulfillment, observability, platformization, and cross-functional architecture decisions to support high-throughput consumer experiences and revenue-generating systems.
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Remote
Seattle, WA
150K-225K Annually
Mid level
150K-225K Annually
Mid level
Healthtech • Insurance
Own and build backend services for benefit estimate (270/271), claims adjudication integrations, and claims processing pipelines. Ensure accuracy, reliability, and throughput across PostgreSQL, Redis, and BigQuery, design APIs, participate in architecture and incident response, and contribute to on-call rotation.
Top Skills: BigQueryDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrpcKubernetesPostgresRedisRestful ApisSQL
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Remote
Seattle, WA
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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
Seattle, WA
193K-309K Annually
Senior level
193K-309K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.
Top Skills: Ai-Augmented Development ToolsClaude CodeCloud-Based ServicesContainerizationDynamoDBGithub CopilotJavaKotlinKotlin-Specific FrameworksMicroservicesMonitoring ToolsPostgresReact
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Remote
Seattle, WA
155K-210K Annually
Mid level
155K-210K Annually
Mid level
Insurance • Software
As a Back End Engineer, you will develop core financial systems, manage APIs, and optimize architecture while collaborating across teams.
Top Skills: AWSDockerGoGraphQLGrpcKafkaKubernetesMongodbPostgresPythonSnowflakeTypescript
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Remote
Seattle, WA
4K-5K Hourly
Senior level
4K-5K Hourly
Senior level
Travel
Lead development of Python-based web applications using Django and FastAPI, architect scalable solutions, and establish technical standards while mentoring developers and optimizing infrastructure.
Top Skills: Ai Coding AssistantsAWSDjangoFastapiGitPostgresPythonRailway
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Reposted 4 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Seattle, WA
165K-179K Annually
Senior level
165K-179K Annually
Senior level
Edtech
The Lead Engineer will design and manage scalable web applications and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement high-quality software for BigFuture. Responsibilities include architecture definition, mentoring, and leading Agile ceremonies while exploring technologies like AI.
Top Skills: AWSDynamoDBMySQLNode.jsPostgresReactRedshiftTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Seattle, WA
200K-200K Annually
Expert/Leader
200K-200K Annually
Expert/Leader
Information Technology • Mobile • Consulting
As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will lead technical standards, mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive feature development in a fast-growing on-demand services environment.
Top Skills: A/B TestingGitJavaScriptNode.jsReact
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Remote
Seattle, WA
192K-192K Annually
Senior level
192K-192K Annually
Senior level
Security • Cybersecurity
Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.
Top Skills: Ai Tools/Models/ServicesCi/CdContainerizationDockerElasticsearchGoGrafanaKotlinKubernetesMicroservicesPostgresPrometheusPythonRustTerraform
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In-Office or Remote
Seattle, WA
150K-180K Annually
Senior level
150K-180K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Healthtech • Software
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance data pipelines, integrate with EHR systems, and mentor fellow engineers while ensuring scalable and reliable solutions for health technology.
Top Skills: AWSDynamoDBFargateKinesisLambdaNode.jsPostgresServerless TechnologiesSnsSqsTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Seattle, WA
141K-229K Annually
Senior level
141K-229K Annually
Senior level
Consumer Web • eCommerce • Machine Learning • Software • Sports • Analytics
Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.
Top Skills: .NetAi-Assisted Development ToolsAWSC#DatadogDynamoDBKafkaKubernetesPaypalPci-DssPostgresReactStripeSvelteTypescript
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Remote
Seattle, WA
Easy Apply
204K-290K Annually
Senior level
204K-290K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.
Top Skills: AWSKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonSpark
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In-Office
Seattle, WA
160K-250K Annually
Senior level
160K-250K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software
Design and improve backend systems, write secure scalable code, participate in on-call support, and enhance engineering standards and processes.
Top Skills: Node.jsPostgres
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Remote
Seattle, WA
35K-50K Annually
Entry level
35K-50K Annually
Entry level
Agency • HR Tech • Information Technology • Professional Services
Seeking a Back-End Developer to design, develop, and maintain server-side applications, particularly CRM software solutions in a collaborative remote environment.
Top Skills: JavaPHPPythonRuby
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Remote
Seattle, WA
140K-220K Annually
Senior level
140K-220K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Generative AI • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Nango is hiring Senior and Staff Backend Engineers to design, build, and optimize backend systems and APIs, collaborating with customers and driving product strategy.
Top Skills: Node.js
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Remote
Seattle, WA
150K-250K Annually
Senior level
150K-250K Annually
Senior level
Consumer Web • Fintech • Software • Financial Services
As a Backend Engineer, you will own end-to-end backend systems, build reliable APIs on Node and AWS, and implement scalable architectures. You will be responsible for high-quality production code delivery, establish best practices, and interface with product teams to enhance financial product performance.
Top Skills: AWSNextjsNode.jsReactTypescriptVercel
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Remote
Seattle, WA
Mid level
Mid level
Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Quantitative Trading
Lead design, build, and maintenance of scalable, secure blockchain participation and custody infrastructure. Improve automation, monitoring, incident response, and observability; debug distributed protocols; inform leadership strategy; scope product opportunities; and support on-call reliability and deployment automation.
Top Skills: .NetAWSAzureBashCC++ChainlinkDatadogDockerElk StackGCPGoGrafanaHsmJavaKubernetesKvmLinuxLogdnaMpcPerlPrometheusPythonRpcRustTerraformVMwareWeb3
17 Days AgoSaved
In-Office
Seattle, WA
Senior level
Senior level
Software • Automation
Design and scale core backend systems for a multimodal conversational AI platform, optimize realtime audio/AI pipelines for low latency, improve reliability and analytics, drive engineering standards and code quality.
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In-Office
Seattle, WA
182K-247K Annually
Senior level
182K-247K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Machine Learning • Software • Analytics • Big Data Analytics
As a Staff Software Engineer focusing on backend, you'll design, implement, and operate micro-services, focusing on large-scale data and AI infrastructure.
Top Skills: Apache KafkaSparkAWSAzureC++CloudFormationDockerJavaKubernetesScalaSQLTerraform
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