Remote Backend Jobs
185 Remote Jobs available
At a glance: As of 1 Nov 2026, 185 live jobs from 65 employers. 17 were posted in the last 7 days. 41% publish a salary; the median published salary is $203,000 a year (USD). 11 are open to applicants anywhere in the world. Hiring most right now: Affirm, Coinbase and Grafana Labs.
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- CamundaYesterdayWorldwideSenior#Azure#Java#KafkaYesterdayView job
- CamundaYesterdayWorldwideMid level#Elasticsearch#Java#MySQLYesterdayView job
- DropboxYesterdayYesterdayView jobWe Work Remotely
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- Affirm2 days agoUnited StatesUSD 236K–296K / yearStaff#AWS#CI/CD#IAM2 days agoView job
- Affirm2 days agoUnited KingdomGBP 120K–168K / yearSenior#AWS#Kotlin#Kubernetes2 days agoView job
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- Coinbase3 days agoUnited StatesUSD 186K–219K / yearSenior#C++#Java#Rust3 days agoView job
- Bitovi3 days ago3 days agoView jobWe Work Remotely
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- Affirm4 days agoUnited StatesUSD 230K–290K / yearStaff#AWS#Kafka#Kotlin4 days agoView job
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- 6 days agoView jobArbeitnow
- Patreon6 days agoLocation not statedUSD 258–386 / hourStaff#AWS#Kubernetes#Python6 days agoView job
- Movable InkLast weekLocation not statedUSD 140K–180K / yearSenior#AWS#Azure#CI/CDRemoteFirstJobs (formerly JobsCollider)Last week
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- Last weekView jobHimalayas
Backend roles own the services behind the product: APIs, data models, queues, background jobs, and the latency and correctness guarantees everything else is built on.
Remote backend openings cluster around infrastructure and fintech companies, API-first products, and any team large enough to have split its platform from its interface. Go, Python, Node, Java and Rust dominate the listings.
Read for scale and on-call: a backend role at ten requests a second is a different job from one at ten thousand. Check whether the team owns its own deployments, and whether the on-call rotation is compatible with your timezone.