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Remote
Chicago, IL
217K-293K Annually
Expert/Leader
217K-293K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Data Privacy
The Staff Backend Product Software Engineer will architect systems for products, focusing on lifecycle management and subscription services, while leading technical initiatives and mentoring teams.
Top Skills: GoJavaPythonReactTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
140K-215K Annually
Senior level
140K-215K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
The Senior Backend Engineer will develop cloud-based systems for cybersecurity, focusing on scalability and reliability, using languages like Go and Python. Collaboration and mentorship are key components.
Top Skills: AWSAzureCassandraElastic SearchGoKafkaKubernetesLinuxPythonRedis
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In-Office
Chicago, IL
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Senior level
Senior level
AdTech
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and scale backend services for financial products, focusing on microservices and API development. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity and performance, utilizing Rust and Go for high-availability systems interacting with payment processors and banks.
Top Skills: AWSAzureGCPGoGraphQLGrpcKafkaProtobufRabbitMQRustSQL
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Remote
Chicago, IL
175K-230K Annually
Senior level
175K-230K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
As a Staff Backend Engineer, lead architecture and implementation of scalable backend systems, mentor engineers, and drive technical strategy in a startup focused on automation for sales teams.
Top Skills: AppsyncAWSCdkCognitoCypressDynamoDBGraphQLJestLambdaNode.jsPlaywrightTypescriptVitest
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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Senior level
Senior level
Blockchain • Software • Cryptocurrency • Web3
As a Backend Developer, you will lead projects, build services, optimize performance, ensure security, and mentor teammates in a blockchain-focused environment.
Top Skills: ArbitrumAWSDockerEcsGoOp StackSolidityTerraform
Reposted 10 Days AgoSaved
In-Office
Chicago, IL
167K-261K Annually
Senior level
167K-261K Annually
Senior level
Digital Media
Lead the architecture and implementation of payments and billing systems to manage financial transactions, enhance compliance, and mentor engineers.
Top Skills: AdyenBraintreeGoJavaMySQLNoSQLPostgresPythonRubySQLStripe
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Remote
Chicago, IL
90K-150K Annually
Junior
90K-150K Annually
Junior
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software
As a Backend Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain the core backend infrastructure while improving platform reliability, performance, and scalability.
Top Skills: AWSDevOpsMongoDBNode.js
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Information Technology • Financial Services
The Backend Engineer will design, build, and scale Veda's backend systems, ensuring reliability and performance for DeFi applications.
Top Skills: AWSAzureC++DockerGCPGoJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgresPythonRust
Reposted 16 Days AgoSaved
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
216K-225K Annually
Senior level
216K-225K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce • Food • Sales • Software
The Staff Engineer will build scalable services, manage application performance, contribute to tech strategy, and lead technical projects in collaboration with peers.
Top Skills: C++JavaKotlinPythonScala
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Remote
Chicago, IL
140K-170K Annually
Senior level
140K-170K Annually
Senior level
Fintech
As a Full Stack Engineer, you will develop and implement features, APIs, and products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance customer experiences.
Top Skills: AWSKubernetesNode.jsTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Easy Apply
95K-115K Annually
Mid level
95K-115K Annually
Mid level
eCommerce
The Backend Engineer will develop and maintain scalable software applications, collaborate with teams, and enhance internal tools for operations.
Top Skills: AngularCi/CdCSS3GitHTML5JavaJavaScriptReactSpring BootSQLVue
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Healthtech • Biotech
Design and implement scalable backend services for managing and processing health data. Collaborate with teams to ensure compliance and reliability while mentoring team members.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDjangoFastapiFhirFlaskGCPHl7HypothesisKafkaKubernetesLocustMySQLNext.JsOauth2PostgresPytestPythonReactTailwind
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Reposted 2 Days AgoSaved
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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141K-229K Annually
Senior level
141K-229K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
The Backend Engineer will build scalable backend services and APIs for feature management at enterprise scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Top Skills: C++GoJavaRust
3 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Chicago, IL
160K-253K Annually
Senior level
160K-253K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Generative AI
Contribute to the development of hosted and on-premise offerings, implementing backend solutions for Kibana Alerting and Reporting while collaborating with various teams.
Top Skills: JavaScriptNode.jsTypescript
3 Days AgoSaved
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Remote
Chicago, IL
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Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology
The Backend Engineer will design and maintain backend services using Java or Kotlin, manage SQL databases, and support SOAP APIs while optimizing performance in a retail tech environment.
Top Skills: JavaKotlinSoapSQL
Reposted 8 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Chicago, IL
180K-230K Annually
Senior level
180K-230K Annually
Senior level
Software • Defense
Design and maintain high-performance backend services, improve data models, optimize APIs, and ensure reliability for mission-critical systems.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDockerGCPGoGraphQLGrpcJavaKubernetesNode.jsPythonRest
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Remote
Chicago, IL
180K-230K Annually
Senior level
180K-230K Annually
Senior level
Software • Defense
Design and maintain backend services for a military workflow platform, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability in production systems.
Top Skills: AWSAzureCi/CdDockerGCPGoGraphQLGrpcJavaKafkaKubernetesNode.jsNon-Relational DatabasesPub/SubPythonRelational DatabasesRest
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
120K-135K Annually
Mid level
120K-135K Annually
Mid level
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software
As a Backend Software Engineer II, you will develop web services primarily using Python and PostgreSQL, while collaborating closely with product teams to enhance the digital life insurance enrollment experience. You will ensure the quality of services and participate in planning product roadmaps.
Top Skills: DockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrpcJavaKubernetesPostgresPythonRest
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
145K-190K Annually
Senior level
145K-190K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will develop web services for the life insurance enrollment experience, collaborating with various teams to enhance the product roadmap and maintain service quality.
Top Skills: DockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrpcJavaKubernetesPostgresPythonRest
Reposted 8 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
200K-235K Annually
Expert/Leader
200K-235K Annually
Expert/Leader
Mobile • Real Estate • Software • Database • Analytics
The role involves architecting and developing a data platform, designing scalable APIs, maintaining infrastructure, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Top Skills: AWSCSSGCPGoGrpcHTML5JavaScriptKafkaKubernetesProtobufsPythonReactRed PandaRubyRustTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Easy Apply
120K-180K Annually
Mid level
120K-180K Annually
Mid level
Software
Join Pulley's backend team as a Software Engineer II, implementing backend features, collaborating with frontend teams, and improving systems while learning best practices from senior engineers.
Top Skills: APIsGoSQL
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
Mid level
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Software • Biotech
As a Database Specialist, you'll optimize ML data infrastructure, modernize ETL pipelines, and collaborate on analytics tools to enhance performance and scalability.
Top Skills: Amazon RdsApache AirflowAuroraHivePostgresPythonRedshiftS3SnowflakeSpark
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Easy Apply
145K-235K Annually
Senior level
145K-235K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
As a Backend Engineer for the Data Platform, you will build data pipelines, enhance database performance, collaborate across teams, and ensure code quality and best practices.
Top Skills: AirflowAthenaClickhouseDatadogElasticsearchFlinkKinesisLambdaPostgresSnowflakeSparkTerraformTimestream
Reposted 18 Days AgoSaved
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
Easy Apply
170K-190K Annually
Senior level
170K-190K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
Design and maintain backend systems using Python, provide technical leadership, collaborate with various teams, and streamline operational processes.
Top Skills: Cloud FunctionsGkeGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxPub/SubPython
19 Days AgoSaved
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
120K-180K Annually
Senior level
120K-180K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain robust back-end systems for trading, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput solutions in a team environment.
Top Skills: .NetC#KafkaRabbitMQRest ApisWeb Sockets
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