Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design and build robust backend services and secure APIs for finance and reader applications. Implement authentication, payments, subscriptions, and finance workflows. Design Postgres/Redis schemas, integrate with financial APIs (BSE Star MF, NSE) and DRM services, and ensure compliance-friendly data handling.

The role involves designing and expanding backend systems, mentoring engineers, and executing technical strategies to modernize architecture and improve system performance.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop data ingestion pipelines, implement observability tools, and provide technical support while improving team collaboration.

The role involves owning the architecture and technical direction of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing high-reliability systems for global payment processing, and leading cross-functional collaborations to create efficient, compliant solutions. Responsibilities also include mentoring team members and enhancing operational excellence through AI-driven improvements.

The Staff Backend Engineer will architect and scale backend systems, lead identity infrastructure, mentor the team, and ensure system reliability for Stack AI's platform.

Build and improve frontend experiences for login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-user/org support. Contribute to migrating main views to React Native, design high-performance React/TypeScript UIs, collaborate with backend engineers and product teams, and write well-tested, reliable code to maintain low-latency user surfaces at scale.

Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for the Overseer platform to ensure correctness across Coinbase fund flows. Own architecture, design and delivery of real-time detection, invariant frameworks, and partner APIs. Drive cross-team alignment, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead P0 initiatives, and apply generative AI responsibly to scale automated guardrails and enforcement capabilities.

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.

Design APIs, build scheduling algorithms for GPU utilization, create resource management systems, and collaborate with frontend engineers for AI infrastructure.

Lead technical implementation of custom web projects, focusing on WordPress back-end development, while ensuring quality, security, and collaboration with teams.

The Lead Back-End Developer will oversee backend development initiatives, mentor the backend team, and collaborate with frontend teams to ensure robust backend infrastructure and optimal user experience.

Looking for a Back-End Developer specializing in PHP and Laravel with at least 3 years of experience to work on backend development and optimize user experience.

Build and operate scalable backend systems to ingest, transform, and search terabytes/day of security telemetry. Own integrations, data normalization, correlation engines, real-time and batch processing, and collaborate with detection engineers to support threat hunting workflows.

Backend-focused engineer to develop and own core CRM and finance services end-to-end. Work in a fast-growth scaleup environment, shipping with agentic AI-assisted workflows, maintaining production Python/FastAPI services, owning testing and quality, and optimizing developer tooling and automation.

Develop, maintain, and optimize mission-critical backend APIs and scalable cloud services for web and mobile clients. Implement secure, high-performance systems, automated tests, observability, and technical documentation. Mentor peers, follow best practices, and support a proof-of-concept launch and fundraising activities as a volunteer contributor.

Design, build, test, and support EPIC integration solutions across the full interface lifecycle. Gather requirements, resolve integration issues, develop standards and documentation, and provide production support within a remote, volunteer, part-time setup.

Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs for SwapRail, including routing engines, execution services, data pipelines, simulation/validation layers, and observability. Integrate on-chain and off-chain data sources, optimize for low-latency high-throughput execution, and collaborate with frontend and wallet teams.

As a Backend Engineer, design and manage backend infrastructure, develop microservices, optimize data systems, collaborate with teams, and participate in on-call rotations.

The role involves building and scaling platform components, collaborating with product teams, and setting technical direction for features. Requires experience in backend engineering.

You will design and implement scalable backend systems integrating August infrastructure with third-party DeFi protocols while collaborating with engineering teams.

The Backend Engineer will design, build, and scale Veda's backend systems, ensuring reliability and performance for DeFi applications.

Develop and maintain backend services using TypeScript and Bun.js for a crypto trading platform, focusing on performance and collaboration across teams.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and maintain scalable backend services using TypeScript, ensuring high performance and reliability for a large user base, while collaborating with co-founders and leading a team.

The Senior/Lead Backend Engineer will develop backend infrastructure for a renewable energy company, including real-time digital twin creation and energy app backend development.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll lead the technical direction of the Session Replay product, driving backend architecture, designing data models, and improving team engineering standards while mentoring engineers.