Top Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

As a Backend Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain backend services, collaborate with teams across the stack, and contribute to product feature development.

Design and build scalable platforms for high-frequency data ingestion, develop database solutions, and pioneer data architecture while collaborating on engineering standards.

The Staff Backend Software Engineer will design and improve scalable backend systems for Dropbox's Commerce Platform, ensuring system reliability and data consistency while influencing technical strategy and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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.

Design, build, and operate backend services focusing on performance, scalability, reliability, and observability. Diagnose production issues, optimize data models and APIs, contribute to architecture and operational strategy, and collaborate across product, frontend, and DevOps to deliver mission-critical systems.

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.

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.

The Senior Back-End Engineer will design and implement APIs, develop core services, and lead a motivated team to enhance product features while ensuring quality and reliability.

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.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll design REST APIs, model data, debug customer issues, optimize performance, and operate cloud services.

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.

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.

The backend engineer will develop and maintain scalable backend systems, own projects, collaborate cross-functionally, and improve existing systems. The role requires strong communication, problem-solving skills, and a focus on developer experience.

Join Clarify as a Backend Engineer to build foundational systems for our AI-native CRM, including data pipelines, API infrastructure, and monitoring tools, while collaborating closely with founders on critical infrastructure decisions.

As a Backend Engineer, you will lead discussions, architect infrastructure, optimize performance, and establish best practices for backend systems.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase, you'll build systems for crypto trading, mentor other engineers, and ensure product excellence by architecting robust, highly available services.

As a Founding Backend Engineer, you'll build frameworks for information exchange, blockchain verification, and customer processing using AI, while fostering early company culture.

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will develop and implement features, APIs, and products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance customer experiences.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll build core systems for Postman's Cloud Platform, develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot, manage deployments across Kubernetes, and ensure scalability and performance.

Design, build, and deploy frontend and backend services for video and audio tools, working with emerging web standards and technologies. Collaborate closely with design and product teams to enhance user experience.

Develop, scale, and maintain backend services for an AI-driven clinical documentation platform, ensuring reliability and compliance in healthcare environments.

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.

Lead the design and implementation of backend services for data cataloging and ML training systems, focusing on performance and scalability.

The Founding Backend Engineer will lead the technical execution of Plaud's "Plaud for Teams" product, focusing on architecture, systems, and privacy-minded collaboration using AI technologies, while building and mentoring an engineering team.

As a Backend Engineer, you will develop AI-driven software for logistics, manage projects, and contribute to code reviews while ensuring high-quality standards through testing and deployment.