Top Backend Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Lead a portfolio and engineering team to design and deliver cloud-based, distributed microservices and full-stack solutions for regulatory needs. Mentor engineers, evaluate and occasionally write code, collaborate with product managers, and leverage cloud platforms, container orchestration, databases, and emerging technologies to build scalable systems.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team to design and deliver cloud-based, microservices solutions. Collaborate with product managers, drive technical direction, evaluate and write code, and leverage cloud, container orchestration, databases, and emerging AI tooling to meet regulatory and customer needs.

The role involves leading backend engineering efforts to build scalable distributed systems, enhance APIs, and troubleshoot production issues. Candidates should possess expertise in backend languages and cloud engineering principles.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure systems, contributing to complex data processing libraries and distributed systems, while collaborating with teams to create impactful software solutions.

This role involves developing scalable backend services, collaborating with cross-functional teams, optimizing applications, and building robust APIs for user-facing elements.

Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build scalable software solutions, focusing on data systems and infrastructure while collaborating with teams. Responsibilities include building performant systems, designing APIs, and automating deployment for distributed systems.

Backend Software Engineers at Palantir develop scalable backend services, design APIs, and optimize applications for performance, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The Backend Software Engineer will build scalable systems and APIs, work with various programming languages, and enhance the performance of large-scale data systems at Palantir.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you'll lead the architecture and development of scalable backend services, ensuring high performance and coding standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user workflows and build robust APIs.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement backend services, manage architectural decisions, and drive improvements in data quality, performance, and reliability, while collaborating across teams to enhance client and provider interactions in mental healthcare.

Lead design and evolution of Hex's graph-based compute execution architecture. Optimize parallel execution, caching, and remote warehouse interactions. Instrument and diagnose performance, author technical proposals, mentor engineers, and roadmap long-term platform designs while remaining hands-on in backend code.

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, multi-cloud fintech products. Design scalable, reliable, and secure systems using domain modeling. Build testable, operable code, resolve production incidents, optimize performance and data access, and enable zero-downtime releases. Mentor teammates, drive technical direction, and continuously modernize technologies and patterns.

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, JVM-based services. Design scalable, reliable, secure systems; apply domain modeling; ensure zero-downtime releases; optimize data access and performance; troubleshoot and prevent issues; mentor teammates and evolve platform technology.

Lead backend engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud-native, microservices-based systems; ensuring scalable, secure, high-availability data processing; leading team adoption of enterprise AI-assisted development practices; driving testing, release reliability, and continuous technology improvements.

Design, build, test and operate cloud-native back-end microservices using Java. Ensure secure, scalable, reliable systems, optimize data access and performance, support production lifecycle and incident management.

Lead ownership of core backend systems for ultra-low-latency, high-throughput distributed services. Drive architecture, resolve performance and scaling bottlenecks, mentor engineers, and operate critical infrastructure under extreme concurrency and load.

As a Backend Engineer at Fun.xyz, you will build and maintain backend services for a Web3 payments platform, ensuring high performance and reliability.

Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure backend systems for high‑throughput document processing. Assess architecture, build abstractions, partner with platform teams, set technical direction, and raise backend engineering standards.

The Staff Backend Engineer will architect financial systems, lead technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and optimize system performance in a complex fintech environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance data pipelines, integrate with EHR systems, and mentor fellow engineers while ensuring scalable and reliable solutions for health technology.

Develop and maintain high-scale backend services, troubleshoot issues, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams for feature implementation.

Develop and maintain backend web services and APIs using Scala and PostgreSQL. Participate in daily deployments, convert product ideas into site components, collaborate on team projects, and perform thorough code reviews to ensure high-quality engineering practices.

The Backend Engineer will develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for an AI-driven logistics platform while ensuring system reliability, performance, and security. Responsibilities include designing architecture, implementing data pipelines, collaborating with teams, and mentoring new members. The role requires proficiency in backend languages and cloud infrastructure.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Posh, you will design and scale backend services, manage AI infrastructure, and collaborate on integrating AI features into products.

Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs powering the insurance platform. Integrate payments, documents, and data providers, improve system stability, performance, and scalability, mentor team members, and participate in architectural decisions and agile ceremonies.