Remote Backend Jobs
174 Remote Jobs available
At a glance: As of 26 Oct 2026, 1,069 live jobs from 632 employers. 407 were posted in the last 7 days. 30% publish a salary; the median published salary is $170,000 a year (USD). 12 are open to applicants anywhere in the world. Hiring most right now: Affirm, knowmad mood and Bright Vision Technologies.
Senior Backend Developer, Campaigns Team (Remote)
NewMovable InkYesterdayLocation not statedUSD 140K–180K / yearSeniorAWSAzureCI/CDAWS Backend Senior Software Developer III *
Caseware2 days agoLocation not statedSeniorAWSCI/CDGraphQLSoftware Engineer (.NET)
LastPass2 days agoHungaryMid levelC#AngularAWSStaff Backend Engineer, User Safety
Reddit4 days agoUnited StatesStaffPythonRubyRustSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Capacity Modeling)
Affirm4 days agoCanadaCAD 153K–213K / yearSeniorAWSKotlinKubernetesSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Workload Safety)
Affirm4 days agoCanadaCAD 153K–213K / yearSeniorKubernetesNode.jsPrototypingSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Workload Safety)
Affirm4 days agoUnited StatesUSD 173K–233K / yearSeniorKubernetesNode.jsPrototypingSenior Software Engineer, Backend - Distributed Systems
Camunda4 days agoWorldwideSeniorJavaSenior Backend Engineer
DuckDuckGo4 days agoIndiaSeniorJavaScriptNode.jsSenior Backend Software Engineer - Loki | NASA | Remote
Grafana Labs4 days agoCanadaCAD 165K–197K / yearSeniorAWSAzureC++Senior Backend Software Engineer - Loki | NASA | Remote
Grafana Labs4 days agoUnited StatesUSD 154K–185K / yearSeniorAWSAzureC++Senior Software Engineer, Backend - KYC
Sardine4 days agoWorldwideSeniorBigQueryGoGoogle CloudSoftware Engineer II, Backend (Purchasing Power - Core)
Affirm5 days agoCanadaUSD 133K–183K / yearJuniorAWSKotlinKubernetesBackend Engineer (Freelance)
Make5 days agoWorldwideFreelanceJavaScriptNode.jsTypeScriptSoftware Engineer - Crypto Data Foundations
Coinbase5 days agoUnited StatesUSD 152K–179K / yeargRPCKafkaMongoDBJava Backend Engineering Team Lead (remote)
Qualifyze GmbH5 days agoWorldwideEUR 85K–90K / yearLeadJavaAccessibilityDesign SystemsSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Data)
Affirm5 days agoCanadaSeniorAWSKotlinKubernetesSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Data)
Affirm5 days agoUnited StatesUSD 173K–233K / yearSeniorAWSKotlinKubernetesSenior Backend Engineer | Token Spend Management
Ramp5 days agoCA · USUSD 204K–280K / yearSeniorSenior Backend Engineer | Accounts Receivable
Ramp5 days agoCA · USUSD 204K–280K / yearSeniorExcelQuickBooks
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.