Top Backend Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Build and own backend services and REST APIs powering mobile and web applications. Design scalable systems, model relational data, integrate third-party services, write tested and secure code, review code, debug complex issues, and collaborate cross-functionally. The role also involves mentoring junior engineers, contributing to architecture and documentation, and improving engineering practices and release reliability.

The Backend Engineer III will develop the NG-SIEM Global Serverless Platform, focusing on high availability, scalability, and system efficiency while collaborating with a distributed team.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab.com scale. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, integrate cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling, improve database performance and reliability, and create safe upgrade automation. The role includes production ownership, architecture leadership, code reviews, documentation, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and using AI agents in engineering workflows.

Design, develop, launch, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs used by merchant and partner integrations. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders, balance speed with system quality, debug code, conduct code reviews, and write tested, extensible software. The role requires experience with distributed systems, Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, along with strong communication and ownership of professional growth.

Develop and operate backend systems supporting post-transaction processing for Affirm Card. Break down projects, write tested and extensible code, collaborate with product and engineering teams, monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, participate in on-call support, and contribute to code reviews and team development.

Design, build, and operate backend services for Bestow’s insurance platform using Python, Go, Java, and PostgreSQL. Collaborate on technical decisions, integrations, carrier onboarding, and scalable platform capabilities. Mentor engineers through reviews and pairing, improve production reliability and observability, participate in on-call support, and communicate technical decisions in a remote-first environment. Use agentic AI coding tools daily and help establish effective AI-assisted development practices.

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.

Build, test, ship, and operate production backend features with minimal guidance. Design APIs, background jobs, integrations, data models, migrations, and bounded services while maintaining security, performance, observability, and reliability. Review code, improve automated testing, investigate production issues, address technical debt, participate in operational support, and collaborate asynchronously with product, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams. Use AI coding tools responsibly by validating and correcting generated output.

The Staff Backend Software Engineer will lead backend architecture and development, work with Product Managers, design APIs, and mentor junior engineers, focusing on AI integration and operational excellence.

Owns delivery of backend money movement and card ledger systems, leading engineers through complex problems and ambiguity. Collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; defines scalable technical solutions; supports system availability, monitoring, on-call operations, code quality, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring and developing team talent while building highly available distributed systems for Affirm’s financial products.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications. Owns the engineering lifecycle, writes high-performance code, establishes testing and reliability practices, resolves production issues, guides technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in object-oriented backend development, distributed cloud systems, automated testing, system monitoring, and technical leadership.

Own and lead the technical direction of a major codebase section while designing, building, testing, documenting, and maintaining secure, scalable API-based decisioning products. Partner with product, engineering, and security teams on agile delivery, troubleshoot production issues, meet SLA requirements, and participate in an on-call rotation.

Design, build, operate, and own scalable backend services and APIs for internal and customer-facing applications. Improve performance, observability, security, and reliability; lead architecture and API standards; troubleshoot production issues; support CI/CD and automation; mentor engineers and drive backend best practices across teams.

Build and scale Go backend services for agent quoting, configuration, and application submission. Partner with adjacent teams, resolve partner-specific edge cases, provide architectural leadership, write unit and integration tests, review code, and promote automation, CI/CD, and continuous improvement. The role expects daily use of AI coding tools and ownership of services across distributed systems and microservices environments.

Design, build, and operate backend Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets across multiple chains. Own end-to-end delivery from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout. Drive asset migration pipeline improvements, run on-call operations, build observability and runbooks, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend services and RESTful APIs. Participate across the full software development lifecycle, ship features quickly, collaborate with small teams, integrate third-party APIs, ensure test coverage and CI/CD, and monitor applications in AWS.

Build production-grade backend services and serverless APIs for contact center systems. Implement integrations, observability pipelines, AI-enabled workflows, migration tooling, and reusable platform patterns to improve routing, agent support, reliability, and operational visibility.

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.

Own and lead backend engineering initiatives for financial platforms, designing scalable Java and Ruby distributed services, Kafka data streams, PostgreSQL databases, AI-enabled features, and React components. The role includes production operations, observability, testing, and collaboration with product, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver resilient software.

Own and architect BaseOS backend services that coordinate distributed batteries and operational workflows. Build scalable systems in Go and Python, manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and design reliable APIs and distributed systems. Partner with hardware, deployment, and operations teams, make high-impact technical decisions, mentor engineers, and lead end-to-end system ownership in an ambiguous startup environment.

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.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for speech inference and audio processing. Optimize networking, transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Measure and improve system performance, debug complex networking/scheduling/HPC issues, customize services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Build and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services, including request routing, traffic management, caching, asynchronous jobs, and durable event processing. Design distributed systems for reliability, scalability, and predictable latency. Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives, make technical decisions, document architecture, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and improve developer experience. Preferred experience includes Kubernetes platforms, service meshes, workflow orchestration, platform APIs, open-source contributions, and technical writing.