Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Marketing Backend Developer will build and maintain backend services and APIs for marketing operations, ensuring reliable data flow and system integrations, with a focus on performance and scalability.

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for building, deploying, and monitoring backend applications. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to design/version APIs, build event-driven/asynchronous systems, improve performance and reliability, and drive CI/CD and observability best practices. Ship high-quality, well-tested features and support platform scalability and maintainability.

You will tackle AI challenges, develop scalable software and collaborate with teams to enhance healthcare navigation using AI solutions.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and operate backend services, lead technical initiatives, ensure reliability, and mentor team members in a remote-first setup.

The Magento Backend Developer will architect and develop custom Magento modules, maintain APIs, debug issues, optimize databases, and collaborate with teams to enhance customer engagement platforms.

The Senior Backend Engineer will enhance data integration infrastructure, manage internal systems, and collaborate with teams to execute engineering tasks for growth initiatives.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own backend systems, mentor team members, and collaborate with product and design to build user-focused solutions.

Design and deliver LLM-powered agentic systems to automate customer support and compliance. Build scalable, secure backend infrastructure (Python/Go), model integration pipelines, grounding and guardrail mechanisms, monitoring, and measurement frameworks. Drive end-to-end AI projects, partner with cross-functional teams, lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call and incident response.

Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs for an insurance platform. Integrate external services and data providers, improve system stability, performance, and scalability, participate in architecture discussions, mentor teammates, and support internal tooling and deployment practices.

The Principal Software Engineer will design and optimize backend applications/services, improve payment integration, and oversee code quality within AWS.

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 Senior Software Engineer will design and develop scalable applications, enhance DevOps practices, and drive continuous improvement within infrastructure and systems.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead and support a team in developing reliable and scalable backend systems, collaborating on product development, and improving infrastructure for secure communication between services.

Build and operate ML training and serving infrastructure by designing, developing, and launching backend systems. Collaborate across teams to decompose projects, support operations and on-call, create monitoring and metrics, perform code reviews, and contribute to developer velocity and platform reliability.

The Senior Backend Engineer will design and optimize backend systems, work with cross-functional teams, and ensure security and performance for mobile games, primarily using C# and cloud services.

As a Backend Engineer, you will develop and scale PostHog's billing system to support growth, implement flexible billing models, and ensure accurate financial reporting. You'll focus on automating processes and handling complex data modeling.

The Staff Backend Engineer will lead the development of OXIO's telecom platform, focusing on backend systems, architecture, and scalable solutions. They will utilize multiple languages and cloud services while collaborating with stakeholders to innovate telecom apps.

As a backend engineer, you will enhance data collection systems to ensure reliability and scalability, working closely with engineering and mission teams.

Lead architecture, build, and operate a serverless AWS backend (Python, Lambda, CDK, DynamoDB, S3) supporting APIs, event processing, integrations (EHR/CRM/eCommerce/3PL), observability, security, and compliance. Provide technical leadership, drive platform decisions, identify risks and scalability bottlenecks, and establish backend engineering best practices across systems and teams.

As a Backend Engineer at Drivetrain, you'll tackle challenging backend application problems, focusing on system design, algorithms, and production services while contributing to a cutting-edge technology stack.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll design and maintain APIs for global money management, collaborate with teams, and mentor engineers.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for an internal platform that provides operational visibility into high-volume fund movements. Drive AI-first tooling, build fault-tolerant search and remediation systems, align cross-functionally, and elevate engineering quality through mentorship, design reviews, and process improvements.

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.

The Backend Engineer will develop intricate backend systems, build performant APIs, and contribute to technology innovation at Entefy.